Nursing - News August 28, 2013

NM retools Medicaid with eye on cost, wellness (Merced Sun-Star)
Nearly 90,000 uninsured New Mexicans are expected to enroll in Medicaid next year under terms of the federal health care law that allowed states to expand eligibility for the program while having the federal government initially pay the tab.

Spanish nurses recruited to work at Weston General (This Is Bristol)
As previously reported in the Bristol Post Weston Area Health Trust , which runs the hospital, decided to recruit more nurses to increase safety following a staffing review.

Florida nursing homes, under fire, phasing out pediatric wings (The Miami Herald)
Even as Florida health regulators vigorously defend against two federal lawsuits accusing them of warehousing sickly and disabled children in geriatric nursing homes, the homes themselves are quietly getting out of the kids business.

Calif. fire prompts unhealthy air warnings in Nev. (WBTV)
The giant wildfire burning at the edge of Yosemite National Park has not only destroyed buildings and threatened water supplies, electricity and sequoias, it has also unleashed a smoky haze that has worsened air quality more than 100 miles away in Nevada.

New nursing-simulation building opens at Wake Tech (Business Journal)
The Health Sciences 2 building at Wake Tech has several nursing-simulation rooms, hospital-sized radiography labs and an EMS ambulance bay.

Providers, public urge Medicaid expansion in NH (Boston)
Hospitals, nurses, doctors and other medical providers urged New Hampshire on Tuesday to expand Medicaid to an estimated 49,000 poor adults under the federal health care overhaul law.

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