01 Mar 2021

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Recently I went to a local Mexican restaurant and grocery store. Before COVID I used to frequent this store and restaurant quite a bit. It is authentic, has delicious meals and excellent vegetables along with items I cannot find in the mainstream grocery stores.  The place is always busy, most of the conversations are in Spanish (the language I wish I had taken in middle and high school ...
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18 Feb 2021

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  Our weekly question and answer session with Fred Goldstein, Dr. Luis Saldana, and Nick van Terheyden, MD on our COVID Insights to Action Discussion webinar that takes place live every Wednesday at 4pm ET You can register here https://bit.ly/C19QandA​   Fred Goldstein   Hello, everyone, and welcome to this week's COVID insights to action discussion group. I'm Fred ...
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15 Feb 2021

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Thinking about employee health insurance renewals and their potential changes given where we are at with the COVID Pandemic can be all across the board, but as the following article describes that many will see big increases: Cost of some employee insurance plans rising as high as 40% It's obviously an important issue and one employers self-funded and fully-insured plans should be cons...
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10 Feb 2021

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I had the pleasure this past year of discovering and volunteering with a group, the National COVID-19 Outdoor Learning Initiative which was formed by Green Schoolyards America, The Lawrence Hall of Science, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability Initiative and Ten Strands. The groups came together to help K-12 schools open during the COVID pandemic by moving activities outdoors. Or...
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08 Feb 2021

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Our team had a call with one of our clients  recently during which we began discussing what the fall might look like as the vaccines gets further distributed through the country.  Our client raised a very interesting question that I'll paraphrase here: "Might we see issues with disabilities associated with the infection as well as from living through it?" Think about that in the fo...
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04 Feb 2021

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    Fred Goldstein  Hello, everyone, this is Fred Goldstein and welcome to This Week's COVID Insights to Action Discussion group. I'm joined this week again by our two esteemed physician colleagues, Nick van Terheyden and Luis Saldana. This week, we'll be discussing the post pandemic employee health improvement. However, we wanted to define post pandemic as we're stil...
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28 Jan 2021

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   This week we dealt with many of the myths concerning the vaccine. Including: Deaths associated with vaccination Tracking devices in the vaccine Allergies and how to consider them The infamous 5G towers causing COVID-19, and more If you'd like more information on our services and how we can assist you with your employee health programs, go to Veilig Health ...
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22 Jan 2021

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The new vaccines for Coronavirus are allowing us to look over the horizon and consider a new normal.  Employers can begin to consider their overall employees' health post raging pandemic and not just focus on COVID and business survival. So what should employers be considering now? Here are a few thoughts: How did the modifications to your workplace and processes to get through this...
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18 Jan 2021

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On this Martin Luther King Day, I'd like to focus on Health Disparities and doing something about it.  It is a topic that has been near and dear to me since I ran a Medicaid HMO in 1994 and had my eyes opened over the years.  My disease management company, Specialty Disease Management Services (SDM) focused on Medicaid; working in 10 States covering 10 different diseases or conditions. ...
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14 Jan 2021

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There is a very good Blog post written by Elad Gil entitled Why Has Israel Succeeded At COVID Vaccination which goes into great detail on why the Israeli's have been more successful than other countries in rapidly getting people vaccinated. Some of the key points he makes are: They simplified the process, prioritizing based on age, which made it easier to know who was up. They...
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