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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 »
Dec 11 2009 DPH Situation Report – H1N1
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 »
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 »
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 »
NNU Announces Their Birth with Rally for RN Rights
From Scrubs Magazine
Daily News: National Nurses United Union Launched
From Nursing Spectrum/Nurse Week
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 »