From the Massachusetts Nurse NewsletterNovember/December 2009 Edition
Category: Uncategorized
President’s Column: Let us begin the work that needs to be done
Globe Story — State’s ER policy passes checkup: Hospitals accept ambulance rule; Wait times don’t spike for patients
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 »
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 »
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 »
Nation’s New RN SuperUnion Names Executive Director, Holds First Public Rally for RN Rights, Representation
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