Nursing - News February 25, 2011

WCA?Earns Lab Accreditation (The Post-Journal, Jamestown New York)
WCA Hospital has been granted accreditation status by the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Echocardiography Laboratories.

Christchurch Earthquake: Chch running out of medicine says pharmacist (The Star Canterbury)
A rescue worked looks through the rubble of the Cathedral of Blessed sacrament in Christchurch after the 6.3 magnitude earthquake which struck the city of February 22.

Correction: NY-Nurses' Pay story (WTEN)
In a Feb. 23 story about the settlement of a class-action lawsuit over nurses' pay, The Associated Press incorrectly identified St.

Jeff Manes: Elderly find friend in Flatt (Post Tribune)
"The years between 50 and 70 are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down." - T.S. Eliot Pat Flatt, 58, lives in Lowell.

Charges: Home nursing business bilks state of $975K in fake claims (Startribune)
A Brooklyn Park husband and wife were charged with swindling the state's medical assistance program out of nearly $1 million by submitting claims for nursing services that they didn't provide.

900 jobs to go at East Lancashire hospitals (Blackburn Citizen)
EAST Lancashire's hospitals are to shed almost 900 jobs including doctors, nurses and dentists.

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