MultiCare in Washington State Visitor Restrictions
Below is a letter from MultiCare for Washingtion State ???? COVID19
To help keep our patients, visitors and staff safe and to help stop the spread of COVID-19, MultiCare has established visitor restrictions at all our hospitals and clinics in Washington state.
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We will be screening all patients and visitors at our hospitals and clinics.
Hospitals (including clinics located inside our hospital buildings)
Our hospitals may close some entrances. The hours these entrances are open may also be different than normal.
Visit the hospital location pages at www.multicare.org for information about your hospital.
All hospital visitors will be screened at the entrances. A staff member will take temperatures and ask these screening questions:
- Do you have a fever, cough, shortness of breath or symptoms of a common cold or flu?
- Have you had contact with someone suspected or confirmed to have novel coronavirus (COVID-19)?
If the answer is “yes” to either question, you will not be allowed to enter the facility. We will encourage you to contact your primary care provider or use our free Virtual Care e-visit service (www.multicare.org/virtualcare). If you have an appointment at a clinic located inside the hospital and cannot enter, we will ask you to contact your clinic for instructions.
Outpatient Clinics (Not in hospital buildings)
Our clinics and appointment schedulers will ask you the same screening questions about symptoms and COVID-19 exposure that our hospitals do when you call. (see questions above).
If you can answer “yes” to either question, please contact your clinic to get instructions before you come to your appointment.
If you do come to the clinic, we will screen all patients and visitors there, and we may take temperatures as well.
Patients who can answer “yes” to either screening question at the clinic will be given a mask to wear. If you refuse to wear the mask, the clinic will ask you to leave.
Any visitor who has a temperature and can answer “yes” to either screening question will not be allowed in the clinic.
VISITOR RESTRICTIONS
Hospital visiting hours will be restricted to 8am – 8pm.
In the hospitals, only one caregiver or support person is allowed for each patient, each day (two visitors for patients 17 and under). In our outpatient clinics, only one caregiver or support person will be allowed with each adult patient.
A limit of two parents or caregivers will be allowed with each pediatric patient in our outpatient clinics.
No children 17 and under will be allowed in any hospital or clinic unless they are patients.
No siblings of any age will be allowed to accompany pediatric patients to our outpatient clinics, unless they are patients themselves.
Hospital visitors will be issued a wristband for the day to help our staff identify them.
No visitors will be allowed for hospital patients with suspected or confirmed cases of COVID-19 (patients 17 and under are allowed one parent or caregiver at a time, or two in a 24-hour period).
Only one caregiver or support person will be allowed to accompany patients arriving for surgery or procedures.
Only one visitor is allowed to accompany emergency patients or patients with outpatient appointments at the hospital.
Patients in our hospital birth centers, neonatal intensive care units, and pediatric units may have two visitors per day instead of one.
No visitors will be allowed to enter through the Emergency Department unless they are accompanying an emergency patient.
If you are not at the hospital to receive care or visit a patient, you will not be allowed to enter.
VALET PARKING SERVICE
Currently, we are not offering our normal hospital valet parking service. However, staff members will be available at hospital entrances to direct you to parking locations.
Thank you. We appreciate your patience and cooperation. For more information, visit www.multicare.org/coronavirus.
Transgender woman shot to death in ambulance while being treated in south Charlotte
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) – A man is in custody accused of shooting and killing a transgender woman inside an ambulance in the parking lot of a south Charlotte Days Inn early Wednesday morning.
32-year-old Prentice Bess was arrested and is facing charges in the murder of the woman, who family identified as 34-year-old Monica Diamond.
Bess was taken into custody at the scene, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police.
The shooting happened around 4 a.m. in the Days Inn/Azteca Mexican Restaurant parking lot on E Woodlawn Road near Old Pineville Road.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police say officers were called to the Days Inn regarding a disturbance, where they were met by five to six people. Medic responded to the area after one of the people reported having shortness of breath.
Police say Medic was with the victim in the back of an ambulance when she requested a friend to come assist her. Medic denied Bess entry into the ambulance, and that’s when police say he left, came back and shot Diamond “several times.” Medic tried to treat Diamond but she was pronounced dead at the scene.
It was a “very volatile situation,” police said.
Anyone with additional information is asked to call homicide detectives at 704-432-TIPS
via: https://www.wbtv.com/2020/03/18/homicide-investigation-underway-south-charlotte/
Photo Credit: Taylor Simpson
Chase Bank forgives all credit card debt for Canadian customers
Canadians who had credit cards with Chase Bank can breathe a sigh of relief as the company says it will “forgive” all outstanding debt.
Chase Bank, part of the New York-based JPMorgan Chase & Co., closed all credit card accounts in the country in March 2018, the company said.
Originally, customers were told to continue paying their debt, Reuters reported, but the company confirmed Friday to USA TODAY that the debt was now cancelled.
“Chase made the decision to exit the Canadian credit card market. As part of that exit, all credit card accounts were closed on or before March 2018. A further business decision has been made to forgive all outstanding balances in order to complete the exit,” Maria Martinez, vice president of communications for Chase Card Services, said in a statement.
Chase declined to say how much debt was forgiven or how many customers were affected. It wasn’t immediately clear when the decision was made, but the CBC spoke with some Canadians who said they received a letter from Chase this week.
The bank had offered two rewards cards – with Amazon and Marriott – in Canada, the CBC reported.
“It’s crazy,” Turner added. “This stuff doesn’t happen with credit cards. Credit cards are horror stories.” The 55-year-old trucker also told the CBC that his most recent payment on the account would also be reimbursed.
While the company could have sold the debt to a third party, Martinez said, “Ultimately, we felt it was a better decision for all parties, particularly our customer, to forgive the debt.”
Paul Adamson, of Dundalk, Ontario, told the CBC that he called his bank when he saw the account was closed last week because he didn’t want to miss a payment.
“I’m honestly still so … flabbergasted about it,” he said. “It’s surprise fees, extra complications – things like that, definitely, but not loan forgiveness.”
Christine Langlois, of Montreal, told the CBC that she stopped making payments on her card five years ago.
A 24-year-old university student, she said: “It’s kind of like I’m being rewarded for my irresponsibility.”
Photo Credit: usatoday.com
Cheating husband catches coronavirus on trip to Italy with mistress
A cheating UK hubby is “in a blind panic” over his extramarital affair — now that he has contracted the coronavirus on a secret trip to Italy with his mistress, according to a new report.
The unnamed patient, in his late 30s — described as “well-heeled and with a high-flying job” — told his wife he was away on a business trip within the UK, the Sun reported.
When the man returned home, he began showing symptoms of the deadly bug, and tests confirmed that he was in fact infected, according to the report.
“This patient is the talk of public health officials,” a source with knowledge of the situation told the outlet. “His case would be funny if it wasn’t quite so serious.”
“The man confessed [to doctors] what he’d been up to in Italy, and that his wife has no idea,” the source added. “She thinks he just picked up the disease on his business trip away.”
The man is expected to survive the infection — “unlike his extramarital relationship,” the source told the outlet.
The man’s wife — only aware that he has COVID-19 — has isolated herself in the couple’s lavish home in northern England.
“He thought he had the perfect alibi to carry out his affair, but hadn’t reckoned on the coronavirus meltdown,” the insider told the outlet. “The patient is just relieved he got home before flights were canceled — that would have taken some explaining. He’s in a blind panic, but more about his adultery being exposed rather than his health.”
He admitted to doctors that his affair is with a woman, but he refused to identify her, according to the report.
Italy is battling the largest coronavirus outbreak outside Asia — with 31,506 total cases and 2,503 deaths reported by Tuesday, officials announced.
via: https://nypost.com/2020/03/18/cheating-husband-catches-coronavirus-on-trip-to-italy-with-mistress/
Photo Credit: Reuters
Coronavirus patient tests positive despite ‘overusing hand sanitizer’
A young, fit South Korean coronavirus patient said he contracted the deadly illness despite “overusing hand sanitizer” and taking several health precautions — as he warns others not to be “stupidly overconfident.”
Hyun Park, a 48-year-old university professor, wrote in a Facebook post that he wanted to share his experience as a lesson to help “friends and loved ones to ward off the highly contagious virus.”
Park said that he lived a healthy lifestyle so he was “stupidly overconfident” about his chances of getting infected.
“I was a healthy guy going to gym 5 times a week, washing hands all the time, and overusing hand sanitizer, and staying in Coronavirus-free area,” he said. “So, I was naive and stupid to think that it is not my problem.”
But last month, on Feb. 21, he began to experience a “very mild” sore throat as well as a dry cough, which quickly progressed into discomfort in his chest.
Within days, Park said he began to have trouble breathing so he decided to get tested for COVID-19 on Feb. 24.
The next day — four days after he displayed initial mild symptoms — the test came back positive and he was hospitalized due to the severity of his condition.
“Since then, my condition were [sic] up and down several times a day,” Park wrote.
But following eight days of hospitalization, he finally tested negative for COVID-19, placing him on the path to recovery, he said.
After the reality check, Park is now cautioning others to take the virus that has infected more than 196,000 people worldwide seriously.
“We need to stay healthy and positive to keep our condition well and immune system high,” he wrote. “Fear and panic do not help us at all. And also, we should not take this [lightly].”
via: https://nypost.com/2020/03/17/coronavirus-patient-tests-positive-despite-overusing-hand-sanitizer/
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Oprah Winfrey has denied reports she was arrested and her home raided by law enforcement and arrested for sex trafficking
The 66-year-old talk show host and media mogul became one of Twitter’s top trending topics on Tuesday night after rumors began circulating on social media that she, along with other celebrities, had been arrested for sex trafficking.
After being made aware of the rumors, Winfrey took to Twitter Wednesday to dispel them.
Addressing the tweets, she told her 42.8 million followers: “Just got a phone call that my name is trending. And being trolled for some awful FAKE thing.”
“It’s NOT TRUE,” she added, “Haven’t been raided or arrested.”
She signed off the post by reminding her followers that she was doing her part to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus by practicing social distancing.
“Just sanitizing and self-distancing with the rest of the world. Stay safe everybody,” she said.
CNN has reached out to Winfrey’s representatives for further comment.
Oprah appears to be the latest celebrity victim of QAnon, a group made up of a number of individuals operating independently online, who espouse outrageous conspiracy theories that they post on every single social media platform.
Followers post fake stories of a large-scale conspiracy that pits US President Donald Trump against a global elite seeking to murder him.
One Facebook post that is still active on the social media platform — it has more than 1,000 shares — claims that a house in Boca Raton, Florida, which they say is Oprah’s house, was seized, roped off with red tape.
A YouTube livestream video, with more than 48,000 views, further perpetuates that conspiracy, saying the entire house is roped off with police banners.
And Oprah is not the only victim of QAnon’s latest false conspiracy theory.
One post on Twitter — with more than 2,100 retweets or shares — falsely claims that Tom Hanks, who tested positive for coronavirus in Australia, was actually arrested for pedophilia. It goes on to say that other A-list celebrities will soon be arrested.
The group has also pushed the untrue conspiracy theory known as “Pizzagate.”
That theory has had some dangerous consequences. In 2017, a North Carolina man, armed with an assault rifle, opened fire in a Washington pizzeria.
He claimed he was attempting to find and rescue child sex slaves whom he believed were being held at the restaurant — a belief allegedly based on his reading of a false story circulating online that connected Hillary Clinton’s campaign adviser to the pizzeria through coded messages in his leaked emails.
The man eventually surrendered and no one was hurt. He was convicted on gun charges and is now serving a four-year prison sentence.
via: https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/xandr/oprah-winfrey-denies-awful-fake-155257060.html
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