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Hospital Honors Trailblazing Surgeon With Levi Watkins, Jr., M.D. Outpatient Center

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Johns Hopkins Hospital will rename its outpatient center to honor former cardiac surgeon Dr. Levi Watkins Jr., Watkins was the hospital’s first Black chief resident, the university’s first Black full professor of cardiac surgery, and the first African American graduate from Vanderbilt University’s School of Medicine. “I

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Rutgers Plan to Merge Medical Schools Met with Pushback

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Dr. Jonathan Holloway Faculty concerns and disagreements surrounding a potential merger culminated in a Jul. However, opposing faculty argue that such a merger would provide little benefit for clinical care and medical education, given that the two schools collaborate anyway. A merger would take five years.

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Vassar President Dr. Elizabeth Bradley Awarded a 2023 Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal for Scholarly Work in Public Health

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Elizabeth 'Betsy' Bradley She is lauded for her efforts in hospital care quality and large-scale health system strengthening in the U.S. and abroad, having received the 2018 William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research and having been elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2017.

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Chief Diversity Officer Steps Down Amid Backlash Over ‘Privilege’ Email

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In the January newsletter from the Baltimore hospital and research center’s diversity office, Golden wrote that “privilege” was the “word of the month,” defining it as “a set of unearned benefits given to people who are in a specific social group.” Golden issued an apology in January for defining “privilege” and retracted it.

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Temple Acting President JoAnne Epps Dies at 72

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Blockson Afro-American Collection, Epps slumped over in her chair and was then transported to the university hospital. At an event honoring the late Charles L. Blockson, curator emeritus of Temple’s Charles L. She died around 3:15 p.m. There are no words that can describe the gravity and sadness of this loss.

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Help Wanted

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In January, nurses from two of New York City’s private hospitals went on strike. Mount Sinai Hospital did not release details, but New York State Nursing Association President Nancy Hagans says the agreement includes “wall-to-wall safe staffing ratios,” according to reporting from news station NY1. MacNeil School of Nursing.

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Native American Studies Programs Struggle to Recover from COVID-19 Pandemic

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The CDC also reported in September that the AIAN population was at higher risk during the pandemic for COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and death than other racial and ethnic groups. Lee explains how some of her students live in rural areas “not having access to hospitals nearby … not even just having running water.