Nursing - News December 22, 2012

Redlands Community Hospital Named Among Top 5% in the Nation for... (AndhraNews)
Redlands Community Hospital has once again been ranked among the top 5 percent of U.S. hospitals for overall orthopedic, spine and joint replacement services, according to a study released by Healthgrades, the nation's leading source of hospital data.

Caroling since 1964, group returns yet again to Providence Portland Medical Center (The Oregonian)
They gathered this week in the Providence Portland Medical Center lobby in Northeast Portland the way they have done nearly every year since 1964.

Cancer nurses offer 'all-inclusive' care (The Hastings Tribune)
The women who work in patient care at the center provide what they like to call "all-inclusive" health care.

Nurses Union Files Unfair Labor Charges Against UMass Memorial (Go Local)
The Massachusetts Nurses Association/National Nurses United has filed a charge of unfair labor practice and is seeking an injunction with the National Labor Relations Board against UMass Memorial Medical Center for its decision to violate the nurses' union contract and force nurses, who are supposed to have the Christmas holiday off, to work that ... (more)

On-site audit of veterans facility sparked by neglect complaints complete (Yorkton This Week & Enterprise)
Federal government auditors have completed an on-site inspection of Canada's largest veterans facility prompted by complaints about substandard treatment and neglect of its most frail residents.

Gift wrap service helps children's care unit (Oxford Times)
Her grandson Rowan, who had been cared for in the Children's Critical Care Unit at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital , died on December 14, 2010, when he was just six months old.

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