Nursing - News February 15, 2012

107,000 sign 'stop health bill' bid (Andover Advertiser)
More than 100,000 people have signed an online petition urging the Government to abandon the Health and Social Care Bill.

San Mateo County supervisors votes to close nursing center; 230 patients to be displaced (Inside Bay Area)
Over tearful pleas and angry protests from staff and residents of San Mateo County's public long-term nursing facility, the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to shutter the center.

Carrion joins Life Care Center as nursing director (Journal of the San Juans)
Carrion is a former director of nursing for Life Care Center's health care facility in Federal Way and brings a decade of experience as a nursing director to the company's San Juan Island center.

Ophelia Ford rants against nurses in Senate panel (WVLT-TV Knoxville)
A legislative proposal seeking to increase penalties for assaults on health care workers has caused state Sen.

Poll reveals GP hospital care fears (Romsey Advertiser)
A third of GPs know a patient who was given "dangerously sub-standard" care at their local hospital in the past year, according to a poll.

TBI probing nursing home, patient abuse reported (The Leaf-Chronicle)
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. - The TBI is investigating allegations of patient abuse at a Johnson City nursing home where five employees were fired.

HVHC Wins Prestigious Magnet Award for Nursing Excellence (Patch)
At 11 a.m. Feb. 14, Hudson Valley Hospital Center received a call from the American Nurses Credentialing Center announcing that the hospital had achieved what no other hospital in the region has achieved twice - a Magnet designation.

Dr. Sanjiv Gandhi leads the revolution in caring for B.C.'s tiniest hearts (Canada)
VANCOUVER, B.C.: SEPTEMBER 13, 2010 - Dr. Sanjiv Gandhi and Dr. Jugapal Arneja are returning to Canada after working in the U.S.A. to be surgeons at B.C. Children's Hospital.

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