Nursing - News July 21, 2013

Oregon medical community gears up for expansion (SFGate)
With 400,000 uninsured Oregonians expected to get health insurance in the coming years, the state and medical community are scrambling to make sure there are doctors, nurses and other health care providers available to treat them.

Eye clinic is in running for a national honour (Worcester News)
THE eye clinic at Worcestershire Royal Hospital has been nominated for a national award after receiving outstanding praise from its patients.

Double Standard? Cuba-trained nurses cry foul (The Gleaner)
Twenty-four Jamaicans who graduated from the nursing programme in Cuba in 2012 are crying foul and pointing fingers at the Nursing Council of Jamaica, the local accreditation agency.

Renee Callahan (Herald Star Online)
Renee was a 1979 graduate of Steubenville High School and a 2002 graduate of Trinity School of Nursing.

Crossville Fire Department suspects AC unit in nursing home fire (Knoxville News Sentinel)
The fire that engulfed one room of a Crossville nursing home Friday and forced the evacuation of one building wing appears to have started near a wall air conditioning unit, one official said.

Summer internships a growing option for Eastern Iowa high school students (The Gazette)
Shannon Mulcahey, 17, a incoming Cedar Rapids Xavier senior shadows Nurse Emily Perreault on the Cardiac-Stroke floor at Mercy Medical Center on Thursday, July, 18, 2013 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Medicare gives state hospital 90 days to shape up (The Modesto Bee)
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has given the Terrell State Hospital 90 days to fix things or lose Medicare funding.

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