UVA Children’s hosted its annual Season’s Treatings event for patients and families spending time in the hospital during the holidays. Just like everything else this year, the event has been forced to adapt due to COVID-19.
Health care workers at 24 hospitals, including UVA Health, got a treat on Monday. Sheetz employees went to hospitals in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia to unload nearly nine tons of food. The meals included snacks and drinks for medical personnel, including doctors, nurses and hospital staff.
The number of COVID-19 patients being treated at the UVA Medical Center is increasing as more area residents catch the virus, but hospital officials say they are not being overwhelmed.
The local branch of the NAACP has received a grant to address hesitancy regarding vaccination in communities of color. Working with partners including UVA Health, this funding will be used to develop a community and information-sharing plan to address the concerns of communities of color on the reluctance of being vaccinated.
At UVA Health, Grand-Aides have been instrumental in reducing hospital admissions in the eight years since its implementation, said Craig Thomas, a nurse practitioner who oversees the medical center’s aides. Since launching Grand-Aides, hospital readmissions are down an average of 82% within 30 days, he said.
UVA Health’s new emergency department and in-patient bed tower offer an enhanced and more dignified experience for patients and staff. Designed by global architecture firm Perkins and Will, the expansion of the state’s top-ranked hospital prioritizes well-being while maximizing the number of patients who can receive world-class care.
UVA researchers are surveying families to analyze the pandemic’s impact on younger children. Surveyors want to hear about young children’s early care and education experiences during COVID-19.
In the early 1980s, psychologist James W. Pennebaker, then at the University of Virginia, and his colleague conducted a study in which they told some college students to write about their stressful experiences and feelings for 15 minutes a day four days a week. They told others not to do anything unusual. The students who engaged in this “expressive writing,” as Pennebaker called it, were only half as likely to visit the student health center over the next six months as those who did not.
Reasoning that local readers might provide financial support, they created Foothills Forum, a private, independent nonprofit news organization dedicated to researching and reporting the kinds of in-depth explanatory stories that could rarely be produced by the small, stretched staff of the News. Foothills partnered with UVA’s Center for Survey Research to conduct a countywide survey to identify and delve deeply into citizens’ priorities and concerns.
Exploring Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib’s life, works and philosophy, “Ghalib: A Wilderness at My Doorstep” by UVA associate professor of Urdu and South Asian Literature Mehr Afshan Farooqi, an authoritative critical biography of the poet, opens a window to many shades of India and the subcontinent’s cultural and literary tradition.
(Commentary) “New Money” examines money as a form of social media. Its author, Lana Swartz, isn’t an economist; she teaches media studies at the University of Virginia. There is a lot of specialized jargon here. But among all the academese are interesting histories of different nonstate payment systems and a glimpse into the networks that make the parts work, all presented upon an analytical foundation positioning money as an inherently communicative development.
(Video and transcript) UVA professor Grace Elizabeth Hale looked at the Cold War era and its influence on popular culture. The Georgia Historical Society and UVA Club of Savannah co-hosted the event and provided the video.
In this year of polarization and racial tension, Elizabeth Varon’s “Armies of Deliverance” shows how Northern leaders in 1861 didn’t believe that the United States was deeply polarized. They thought wealthy plantation owners were not only bossing slaves, but bossing poor whites as well, and the Civil War would be “a crusade to deliver the Southern masses from slaveholder domination.”
Lee Ann Johnson, a nurse scientist and assistant professor at the UVA School of Nursing, is continuing her research on lung cancer and the stigma surrounding the diagnosis. Johnson says her research is inspired by her mom’s diagnosis in 2007.
The Milky Way has enjoyed a relatively quiet history in recent eons, but newcomers continue to stream in. Stargazers in the Southern Hemisphere can spot with the naked eye a pair of dwarf galaxies called the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. Astronomers long believed the pair to be our steadfast orbiting companions, like moons of the Milky Way. Then a series of Hubble Space Telescope observations between 2006 and 2013 found that they were more like incoming meteorites. UVA astronomer Nitya Kallivayalil clocked the clouds as coming in hot at about 330 kilometers per second – nearly twice as fa...
It’s a tale of mice and mankind, of birth and breath and it could eventually lead to important research on breathing disorders including sudden infant death syndrome. The story is of infant lungs yet to be used suddenly inflating and changing pressure in the heart to alter blood circulation and stimulate the closing of holes between the left and right atria and pushing the baby, which heretofore lived off its mother, to live on its own. And it all begins with a breath.
America’s diversity has grown significantly over the last 30 years. Three faculty members from UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service released research on America’s growing diversity.
Next year, the census bureau will release new numbers for the nation, documenting, among other things, the racial makeup of the United States. But UVA experts say there’s one big problem – the way the census counts multi-racial people.
UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute has launched a national COVID-19 Medical Resource Demand Dashboard that can project weekly COVID-19 hospitalization rates and the percentage of occupied hospital beds up to six weeks in advance.
Despite warnings from health officials, millions of people traveled for the holidays. Researchers at UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute say what happens next will be critical, with a wide range of possibilities in the model they curate for the Virginia Department of Health.