Program feeding households isolated for Covid wins for health department, CEOC, Food for Free
Cambridge’s Public Health Department and partners got national recognition for a program supplying food to individuals and families isolating after a positive test for Covid.
Officials add monkeypox prep to list of concerns, calling for staff to enact plan with more urgency
As monkeypox continues to spread, the Cambridge Health Alliance has treated seven patients with confirmed cases of the virus and is offering vaccinations to people “at high risk.”
Aligning vaccinations with new census figures corrects obvious errors but lowers rates for city
Updated Cambridge population numbers based on the 2020 Census have deflated the city’s Covid-19 vaccination performance, with slightly lower vaccination percentages overall but bigger drops in vaccination figures for some age and racial and ethnic groups.
Despite $51M in budget loss, Health Alliance braces to offer raises needed to retain staff
The health care system, known for serving the poor, lost a lot more money last fiscal year than it expected – $50.7 million – and expects more losses in the coming months.
Hate crimes leaped in the past year, police report
The number of hate crimes in Cambridge shot up last year to the highest level since at least 2011, the police department reported last week. The statistics were in the department’s annual crime report for 2021, which was posted on its website June 30.
Federal regulators’ advisory on water chemicals outpaces work by Cambridge to filter them out
Just as Cambridge is about to upgrade its water treatment system to halve the levels of a group of worrisome and persistent chemicals, federal regulators have signaled that far more drastic reductions may be necessary.
Parents hesitate to get Covid shots for youngest, while infections of older residents edge upward
The city is making a concerted push to overcome parental reluctance and get children under 5 vaccinated against Covid-19. “What we feel like we’re dealing with at this point is [a] resistance to take their children to be vaccinated,” chief public health officer Derrick Neal told city councillors.
Children under 5 can get vaccinated against Covid at free Saturday clinic offered by Health Alliance
Cambridge Health Alliance will begin offering long-awaited Covid-19 vaccinations to children under 5 starting Saturday at a clinic in Somerville, one of the first health care systems in the Boston area to offer the vaccine at a clinic since authorization June 17.
Health Alliance, recovered from water damage, opens a 69-bed psychiatric center serving kids
Cambridge Health Alliance will open 69 psychiatric beds for teenagers and children at its Somerville campus next week, more than doubling the health care system’s existing capacity of 27 beds for those age groups.
Victims of Violence program ends after 38 years, telling CHA departures leave it ‘an empty shell’
A groundbreaking program at Cambridge Health Alliance that treated crime victims and others suffering from severe trauma will end Aug. 31 because there will be no staff members left to care for patients – described by some as the latest fallout from staff resistance to a treatment philosophy introduced by new leaders of CHA’s psychiatry department.
