Nursing - News February 3, 2011

Dying for change (BBC)
On the edge of a small village just outside Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, there is a line of four or five mud-brick rooms.

William C. Duffy (The Recorder - Greenfield, Massachusetts)
William C. Duffy, 83, a resident of the Buckley Health Care Center, died Monday at the nursing facility, following a period of declining health.

Director has county ties (Hillsboro Star-Journal)
Dorothy McPherson has come nearly full circle. The executive director of the recently opened branch of Progressive Home Health and Hospice in Newton was a nursing student in 1985, when she worked at Bethesda Home in Goessel - the Newton branch now serves Marion County residents.

Blue Shield Delays Rate Hike After Nurses' Protest (AFL-CIO)
How's this for a demonstration of cause and effect? Cause-Yesterday, some 200 activists, led by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United rallied outside Blue Shield's San Francisco corporate headquarters to protest the health insurance giant's premium hikes of as much as 59 percent for California consumers.

Nunavut nurse charged with sex assault (CBC)
Raymond Labrecque was charged in December with sexual assault in connection with an incident alleged to have occurred in June at Qikiqtani General Hospital in Iqaluit.

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Rapid Response Team Prepares For Snow Shoveling Heart Attacks (MediLexicon)

Loyola's innovative Heart Attack Rapid Response Team is on staff 24/7 to perform emergency surgery on patients who have experienced heart attacks from shoveling snow or other causes.

Beebe commended for excellence (Cape Gazette)

Beebe Medical Center announced Wednesday, Jan. 26, HealthGrades named it a Distinguished Hospital for Clinical Excellence for the second consecutive year.

Newton-Wellesley Hospital sets up Boston Marathon blog (The Swellesley Report)

Newton-Wellesley Hospital doctors, nurses and other workers - you know, the sorts of people who should know better than to subject themselves to 26.2 miles of running all at once - write about their adventures in Boston Marathon training on a new blog .

Hospitals request rides for critical staff (Toledo Blade)

Toledo area hospital are requesting rides from motorists with SUVs or other four-wheel drive vehicles for their doctors, nurses and other critical staff Wednesday morning.

Mindfire conducted its first Medical Camp at Bali (Techwhack)

Mindfire Solutions has successfully completed its first medical camp in Bali on 23rd Jan 2011.

Cholesterol out of control (Monterey County Herald)

Only about half of U.S. adults with high levels of bad cholesterol get treatment for it.

Say Goodbye to Insurance Paperwork (SmartMoney)

But how much would you pay not to have to? A new service and a growing field of experts will in fact take the hassle off your hands -- for a price.

Preventative health care: Small steps go long way (The Arbiter)

The health of the United States is in sad shape. Obesity is on the rise. Of the adults surveyed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2009 , 26.7 percent were obese.

Courtland Gardens Healthcare Center Becomes Regency Heights of Stamford on January 1, 2011 (PR)

Stamford, CT, February 03, 2011 -- -- Regency Healthcare Management, an affiliated company of Ciena Healthcare, a leading manager and operator of skilled nursing and rehabilitation communities, has announced the purchase of Courtland Gardens Healthcare Center in Stamford, Connecticut, effective January 1, 2011.

Kenyan Cabinet Minister States that HIV and AIDS Patients Should Be Isolated (Associated Content)

Esther Murugi, the minister for special programmes in Kenya has suggested that HIV-positive people should be isolated so as to eradicated HIV/AIDS. On January 28 2010 during a meeting with members of parliament on HIV/AIDS in Mombasa, Murugi said that: 'In Cuba, when president Fidel Castrol was still very strong, anybody who tested HIV positive was ...

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