Nursing - News May 29, 2011

Many nursing facilities are family-owned, so why is that bad? (News Journal)
It's shameful that Gov. John Kasich has chosen to attack Ohio families who own and operate skilled nursing facilities and hard-working facility administrators by publishing their pay.

Nursing home faces getting younger (The Daily News)
Carol Holland checked her hair in a hand-held mirror, draped a bag of lollipops over the side of her wheelchair and rolled out of her room to begin her daily routine of passing out candy to residents at Heritage Place, a Squirrel Hill nursing home.

Porn films soon to be starring? Condoms (New York Daily News)
Condoms may be more than a guest appearance in porn films made in California. California officials may start leaving their fingerprints on the sets of porn movies across the state.

Mass. chain makes offer on troubled RI hospital (WLNE-TV Providence)
A Boston-based hospital chain has made a last-minute offer to buy the troubled Landmark Medical Center in Woonsocket.

Cancer patients denied last wish to die at home because of shortage of nurses (Guardian Unlimited)
Photograph: CaptureItOne/Alamy Tens of thousands of cancer patients are dying in hospital, despite wishing to end their lives at home, because of a "shameful" lack of NHS nurses, campaigners say.

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