Hospitals accept ambulance rule; Wait times don’t spike for patients By Liz Kowalczyk, Globe Staff | December 14, 2009 A new state policy requiring crowded hospital emergency rooms to accept… Read more »
Year: 2009
Globe Story — State’s ER policy passes checkup: Hospitals accept ambulance rule; Wait times don’t spike for patients
Attention! Knitters, Crocheters and Others
CDC: About 1 in 6 Americans have had swine flu
by Mike Stobbe – Dec. 10, 2009 02:15 PMAssociated Press ATLANTA – Swine flu has sickened about 50 million Americans, and killed about 10,000, according to new estimates released by… Read more »
Wash Post Dec 11 09 CMS (Medicare) Report: Medicare cuts would threaten profitability of one in five hospitals, warning that many institutions might drop Medicare
By Lori Montgomery Friday, December 11, 2009 2:42 PM A Senate plan to cut Medicare to pay for an overhaul of the health system would threaten the profitability of roughly… Read more »
Dec 11 2009 DPH Situation Report – H1N1
CNN Dec 11 2009 Not good! Senate health care bill to allow benefit caps, Democratic aides say
Washington (CNN) — The health care bill being negotiated in the Senate would allow caps on annual insurance benefits, reversing a previous version of the plan that would have prevented… Read more »
Grassroots Action Needed: S. 2216 ED Reform
It is critical that you add your voice to the education reform debate NOW, to ensure school nurses are included in the bill and the "Race to the Top" federal… Read more »
Michigan nurses celebrate creation of a national nurses union this week
By Liz ShawFlint Journal OKEMOS, Michigan—A press release this morning from the Michigan Nurses Association has announced the founding of the National Nurses United (NNU), a new national nursing union… Read more »
Michigan Nurses Association joins new 150,000-member national union
By Jay GreeneCrain’s Detroit Business Seven months after Okemos-based Michigan Nurses Association withdrew from the American Nurses Association, the 10,000-member state union and lobbying organization has joined the newly formed… Read more »
Dispatch #3 From NNU Convention by MNA Delegate Sandy Eaton
Phoenix – Monday morning’s business meeting was chaired by UAN executive director Walt Frederickson. AFL-CIO president Rich Trumka had been scheduled to chair this historic session, but family illness prevented… Read more »
