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 »
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New Website Showcases 24 Promising Models That Are Transforming How Health Care Is Delivered (DS)
MNA Newsletter Receives Award in “Publication Excellence”
Globally, patients pay the price for insufficient nursing staff, large workloads (DS)
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 »
Buprenorphine Treatment: A Nurse’s Story
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 »
Patrick set to keep healthcare for poor (MS)
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 »
Quality, and equality, of care (MS)
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 »
2 flagship hospitals to upgrade accessibility (MS)
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 »
Obama confronts skeptics on healthcare, pledges action (MS)
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 »
MDPH Flu Update 7 2 09 – Massachusetts
Flu Activity in Massachusetts
Insurance companies run wild with public $ (MC)
Please post: For those who are optimistic that the public sector can "keep the insurers honest", or that we have the political will and the dedicated financial and human resources… Read more »