Nursing - News February 24, 2011

Gift turns into volunteer project (WisInfo)
Bruce and Ann Herzberg of Pittsville were shopping at a huge flea market while vacationing in Arizona.

Oxford hospital hits back at food slurs - but your views wanted (Oxford Mail)
A PATIENT welfare group has appealed for Oxfordshire people's real life accounts of hospital food.

Albany Med settles nursing pay lawsuit for $4.5M (WNYT NewsChannel 13)
Albany Medical Center will pay $4.5 million to settle its share of a federal class-action lawsuit alleging officials conspired with counterparts at other hospitals in the area to keep pay down for about 4,000 registered nurses.

GSU's nursing school awarded nearly $1M grant (WTOC-TV Savannah)
Georgia Southern University has been awarded a three-year, nearly $1 million grant by the National Institutes of Health and the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities.

Basildon Hospital praised for quality of meals (Basildon Recorder)
IT'S the butt of countless jokes alongside school dinners and aeroplane meals, but millions of TV viewers would have found a documentary about hospital food hard to stomach.

Elmira-area nursing homes brace for Medicaid cuts (Star-Gazette.COM)
BLOGS Elmira-area nursing homes brace for Medicaid cuts Comments G. Jeffrey Aaron jgaaron@gannett.com Skilled nursing homes in the Southern Tier stand to lose a combined total of $8.78 million in Medicaid spending this year and $13 million next year, according to preliminary worst-case-scenario estimates prepared by the New York Association of ...

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