The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services Department of Public Health 2009-2010 Guidance for Schools Facing High Absenteeism due to Influenza-Like-Illness (ILI) Updated November 13, 2009… Read more »
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Nov 13 2009 Guidance for School nurses on H1N1
Nurses Rally in Support of Veterans and the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home
MNA members from across Western Massachusetts rallied in the rain on Saturday, November 14, 2009 with hundreds of veterans, family members, staff, and concerned community members to demand the immediate… Read more »
Nov 16 09 Washington Post Another way to save a ton of health care dollars: defund mammographies
Federal task force makes radical change in breast cancer screening guidelines By
Nov 16 09 Boston Children’s Hospital research shows uninsured trauma victimes die at a rate 89% higher than insured
Laboring to unite
After years of feuding and raiding each other’s ranks, more healthcare unions are joining hands so they can work together on a common pro-labor agenda By Joe CarlsonModern Healthcare
On health care, many in House spoke with lobbyists’ voice
Some statements ghostwritten by biotech company By Robert Pear, New York Times | November 15, 2009 WASHINGTON – In the official record of the historic House debate on health care… Read more »
Calling the filibuster bluff
By Renee Loth | November 13, 2009 WELCOME TO Washington, where 60 is the new 51.As important legislation from health care to climate change moves through Congress, the conventional wisdom… Read more »
Connect students to health care
MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE students are not allowed to get health coverage through the state Connector Authority’s program of subsidized Commonwealth Care. So private, for-profit health insurance companies are making a killing… Read more »
House passes sweeping health bill
By Lisa Wangsness and Susan Milligan, Globe Staff | November 8, 2009 WASHINGTON – House Democrats, overcoming nearly united Republican opposition and dozens of defections within their own ranks, narrowly… Read more »
As Nurses Hold Candlelight Vigil Federal Mediator is Called in
UMMMC Has Profit of $31 Million but Claims the Need for Concessions While UMass Memorial Medical Center has shown a profit of over $31 million in the first three quarters… Read more »
