Nursing - News February 28, 2013

Medicare Waste Looks Monumental (WETM-TV Elmira)
Medicare reportedly paid billions of taxpayer dollars to nursing homes that failed federal quality of care rules.

10 Things to Know for Today (Tri-cityherald)
The pope met with cardinals one by one today and was to fly to the papal retreat and into retirement by 2 p.m. A conclave of cardinals will meet in secrecy and choose a new pope.

How Grady Memorial Hospital skirted death (Creative Loafing Atlanta)
OPEN FOR BUSINESS: Grady Memorial Hospital has struggled to keep its lights on over the past six years.

CMMC tests colored scrubs to help patients recognize nurses (Bangor Daily News)
In 1988, there was a local revolution in nursing attire: The starched caps came off and white uniforms gave way to colorful fashions of the day.

LaVerne Landers, director of nursing, to retire from ALMH (Lincoln Daily News)
L aVerne Landers of Lincoln will retire from Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital this month after providing 28 years of service to the hospital and its patients.

Defining the new normal in aging (Science Daily)
Aside from back surgery years ago, she's never been sick and, through a busy volunteer schedule, never seems to slow down.

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