Year: 2009

Health Workforce Solutions LLC Identifies Promising and Replicable Solutions For Lowering Costs, Improving Quality and Keeping Patients Satisfied SAN FRANCISCO, April 16 /PRNewswire/ — When a large urban hospital in… Read more »

Shileen Kelley, left, and Allison Shannon are RNs in the emergency room of Melrose-Wakefield Hospital. ER nurses say they’ve seen an increase in disturbances since the state began cutting the… Read more »

DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA – Nurses believe that heavy workloads and insufficient staff are impacting patient care and health outcomes around the world, according to research presented at the International Council… Read more »

ANNANDALE, Va. – President Obama, pledging to overhaul healthcare this year despite divisions in Congress and the public, took on his skeptics directly yesterday, seeking to assure patients that their… Read more »

In a landmark agreement, two of the nation’s most prominent hospitals are pledging to spend millions of dollars to resolve complaints that ill-suited equipment and sometimes-indifferent medical workers make disabled… Read more »

BARRIERS TO good care at hospitals are just one of many reasons that people with disabilities suffer health disparities as sharp as those facing racial and ethnic minorities. Still, hospitals… Read more »

Governor Deval Patrick plans to announce a spending proposal tomorrow that retains medical coverage for some 30,000 legal immigrants who are at risk of losing it, and will also agree… Read more »

By Meredith Hogan Pond"The greatest day of my life was when we were able to get rid of our waiting list," said Colleen LaBelle, R.N., CARN, Program Director for the… Read more »

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