Nursing - News September 26, 2012

UMass Hospital System Announces Job Cuts (CBS Local)
The UMass Memorial Health Care hospital system plans to eliminate 140 full-time positions as it seeks to find $80 million in cuts and new revenue for the fiscal year that starts in October.

Millcreek supervisors OK nursing home plan (Erie Times News)
Millcreek Township supervisors have approved a land-use plan for a new and larger Millcreek Manor skilled nursing facility on upper Peach Street.

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Nurse Annie retires after more than 40 years (Gazette-news.co.uk)
BACK in 1971, Education Secretary Margaret Thatcher ended free school milk for children over seven, Chay Blyth became the first person to sail around the world east to west and Annie Cockerton began a nursing career which was to span more than 40 years.

Patients half as likely to contract hospital infections at Epsom, St Helier and Sutton hospitals (Sutton Guardian)
Patients are half as likely to contract hospital infections at Epsom, St Helier and Sutton hospitals as patients at the average hospital Patients at Epsom, St Helier and Sutton hospitals are half as likely to contract a hospital infection as patients at the average hospital, according to a new report.

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