Nursing - News February 9, 2011

St. Margaret's Daughters pushes 2012 opening of nursing home at Lindy ... (Times-Picayune)
In the next 60 days, contractors for St. Margaret's Daughters , a Catholic church-affiliated nonprofit health-care provider, are scheduled to begin limited demolition work as part of the redevelopment of the old Lindy Boggs Medical Center in Mid-City. The Times-Picayne/Eliot Kamenitz The vacant Lindy Boggs Medical Center is being converted to St.

Nursing Shortage Expected To Get Much Worse (WOWT-TV Omaha)
As baby boomers age, more of them will be in need of health care. And many of those baby boomers are nurses and will be retiring soon, adding to the nursing shortage.

4,000 babies later, Fall City woman, 90, looks back on nursing career, ahead to birthday party (East King County)
Seventy-one years and 4,000 babies after starting her career as a nurse, Fall City resident Gloria Morgan will be celebrating her 90th birthday on Feb.

Hospital hygiene 'superior' claim (BBC)
Standards of hygiene in hospitals are "far, far superior" than they were 15 years ago, First Minister Carwyn Jones has claimed.

Nurses say Washington hospital scapegoated them in 2010 stillborn... (Inside Bay Area)
An autopsy report has found no evidence of improper care in a stillborn birth that caused a rift at Washington Hospital last year, leading to the termination of four birthing center nurses.

Student nurses to protest over cuts (Irish Examiner)
Student nurses and midwives are to press ahead with lunchtime protests over Government plans to cut their pay as industrial trouble-shooters hear their case.

Kindred Healthcare will buy RehabCare for $900M (KAIT)
Kindred Healthcare, a provider of acute care hospital and inpatient rehabilitation services, says it has agreed to buy rival RehabCare Group for about $900 million in cash and stock.

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Kindred Healthcare to acquire Rehabcare Group for $1.3 billion (Domain-B)

US healthcare services company Kindred Healthcare Inc, yesterday agreed to acquire rival Rehabcare Group Inc, for $1.3 billion including debt, in a stock and cash deal, to create the country's largest provider of rehabilitation services.

RSMH medical records go high-tech (Eastern Shore News)

Months of training, countless late hours and checking and rechecking finally came to the "go-live" last November.

in the Pink (Central Jersey)

Beth Battaglino Cahill is the executive director of HealthyWomen.org, the nation's leading nonprofilt women's health organization.

Computer glitch causes delays at Salem Hospital (Statesman Journal)

A computer system malfunction at the Salem Hospital on Tuesday morning caused delays for patients trying to get discharged, hospital officials said.

The leaders of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have a problem with the truth (The Boston Globe)

Maybe I'm just old-fashioned. Maybe I subscribe to some outdated view of a world in which corporate executives tell the truth to the community in which they work.

Business briefs (NewsOK)

Kindred Healthcare , a provider of acute care hospital and inpatient rehabilitation services, said Tuesday it has agreed to buy rival RehabCare Group for about $900 million in a deal that expands Kindred's rehabilitation service business and its offerings for patients who are recovering.

Kindred Healthcare buying RehabCare for $900M (WAFB-TV Baton Rouge)

Kindred Healthcare's $900 million agreement to buy rival RehabCare Group would expand its rehabilitation service business and keep patients under its care throughout their recovery.

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