Nursing - News June 20, 2014

Daniel Borenstein: Time for doctors and nurses to help solve West Contra Costa hospital crisis - Inside Bay Area

After West Contra Costa voters said they didn't want to pay more to keep Doctors Medical Center afloat, the hospital district board and county supervisors last week extracted some extra money from property owners anyway.

Parents, nurses fear school nurse cutbacks can be dangerous to children's health - Bellingham Herald

The agreement capped two years of work by a parents advocacy group started by Teri Saurer, the mother of daughters who just finished first and third grades.

VA: 80 percent of senior executives got bonuses - KHOU-TV Houston

Nearly 80 percent of senior executives at the Department of Veterans Affairs got performance bonuses last year despite widespread treatment delays and preventable deaths at VA hospitals and clinics, a top official said Friday.

Concerns over neonatal staff shortage in Worcestershire - Tewkesburyadmag.co.uk

In the face of a national shortage of specialist neonatal nurses it was revealed yesterday that Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust - the organisation running Royal and the Alex as well as Kidderminster Hospital - was considering moving all high-risk births to Worcester.

5th case of Legionnaires' Disease found in Wilson - Sunherald

Health officials say a fifth person was diagnosed with the lung ailment Thursday at Wilson Pines Nursing and Rehabilitation Services.

VT Tech graduates 23 nursing students - The Bennington Banner

Vermont Technical College's Bennington campus graduated 23 students from the practical nursing program on Thursday, at a pinning ceremony at the Bennington Elks.

Nursing sites sold in Whitley - Journalgazette

Miller's Merry Manor is buying a skilled nursing facility and an assisted living facility from Parkview Whitley Hospital, according to paperwork filed with the state by Parkview officials.

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