Nursing - News December 26, 2012

Grim limbo for NYC's nursing home evacuees (Ledger-Enquirer)
In this Monday, Dec. 24, 2012, photo, an unidentified man leaves the Bishop Henry B. Hucles Episcopal Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center in New York.

UMaine nursing students set eyes on Belize (Bangor Daily News)
In March 2013, 11 University of Maine nursing students will put their nursing skills to practice when they travel to Belize.

Guides offer a helping hand to hospice (Bakewell Today)
A month of fundraising has seen Burbage and St Anne's Guides, together with the First Buxton Rangers, raise over 1,300 for the East Cheshire Hospice.

Teen told she would never walk takes first steps (Daily Echo)
A teenager who was told to get a wheelchair and get on with life because she would never walk again was able to take her first steps after a pioneering operation by Southampton surgeons.

Binational Same-Sex Couples Still Seek Immigration Equality (Patch)
By DANA AMIHERE, Capital News Service Maryland's same-sex couples may have won the right to marry on Election Day, but binational couples like Kelly Costello and Fabiola Morales continue to fight to have their unions recognized.

Going to the doctor with 11 other people (Charleston Gazette)
As 12 New River Health Clinic patients trade tips at their shared appointment, nurse practitioner Tammy Campbell-Cline pulls each woman aside for an individual checkup.

Bikur Cholim takeover mixes tears of pain and joy (Jerusalem Post)
The takeover of Jerusalem's venerable Bikur Cholim Hospital - poorly run by a haredi voluntary organization over the last decade - by the financially successful Shaare Zedek Medical Center this week was a "sad day but also a happy occasion," said Shaare Zedek director-general Prof.

Tennessee fines on nursing homes rank sixth in nation (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
Tennessee collected a little more than $4 million in fines from nursing homes over the past three years, the sixth-highest total of any state in the country, according to data collected by ProPublica, the nonprofit news organization.

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