Monday, April 30, 2012

Hospital Service Technician - Universal Hospital Services - Hershey, PA

Work in a hospital for a single of the fastest flourishing medical companies! Universal Hospital Services, Inc... previous work in a hospital or worked with medical... From Universal Hospital Services - 30 Apr 2012 18:49:49 GMT - View all Hershey jobs


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Physical Therapist (PRN) - Acute Care/Hospital - Northside Hospital - Saint Petersburg, FL

Northside Hospital Schedule : Per Diem/PRN Description : At Northside Hospital & Tampa Bay Heart... by fasten our family of hospitals. EOE In accordance... From HCA West Florida - thirty April 2012 14:10:26 GMT - View all Saint Petersburg jobs


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Sunday, April 29, 2012

Housekeeper-Valparaiso Hospital Campus-PRN (as needed)-Afternoon Shift - Valparaiso Hospital Campus - Valparaiso, IN

Successfully perform a wide range of housekeeping task and projects. Maintain high standards of cleanliness and sanitation throughout the facility... As... From Community Health Systems - 29 Apr 2012 09:04:50 GMT - View all Valparaiso jobs


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Chief Operating Officer - Brandywine Hospital - Brandywine Hospital - Coatesville, PA

all departments in a sanatorium with a exception of... administering sanatorium process plan - Representing a sanatorium at various professional, civic and... From Community Health Systems - twenty-nine Apr 2012 07:05:11 GMT - View all Coatesville jobs


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Saturday, April 28, 2012

Hospital Operations Coordinator - Universal Hospital Services - Sierra Vista, AZ

Hospital Operations Coordinator works as a liason between a dedicated team of UHS staff and sanatorium staff to safeguard quality service. Prior sanatorium operations... From Universal Hospital Services - 28 Apr 2012 17:11:44 GMT - View all Sierra Vista jobs


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Friday, April 27, 2012

Food Service Worker II - Food and Nutrition Dept ( ) - Methodist Hospital - Methodist Hospital - San Antonio, TX

Mon - Fri Hours: Variable Rotating Weekends Location: Methodist Hospital General Statement of Duties : Performs the wide range of duties involved... From HCA Inc - 27 Apr 2012 23:24:03 GMT - View all San Antonio jobs


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Hospital Sales Representative - Oak Hill Hospital - Oak Hill Hospital - Spring Hill - Brooksville, FL

collaboration with the hospital CEO and Vice President, Sales, evaluate, analyze, and appreciate market function data for hospital services, including market... From HCA Inc - 27 Apr 2012 15:24:37 GMT - View all Brooksville jobs


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Thursday, April 26, 2012

Hospital Sales Representative - University Hospital - University Hospital - Broward County - Tamarac, FL

collaboration with the sanatorium CEO and Vice President, Sales, evaluate, analyze, and interpret market function data for sanatorium services, including market... From HCA Inc - twenty-seven Apr 2012 01:10:23 GMT - View all Tamarac jobs


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Registrar (Nights) - North Hills Hospital - North Hills Hospital - North Richland Hills - N Richland Hills, TX

Shift is Wed. - Sat. 4:30 P.M. to 3 A.M... DUTIES INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO: Interview patients to obtain all required account information... From HCA Inc - 26 Apr 2012 21:47:26 GMT - View all N Richland Hills jobs


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Registrar FT, 6pm-230am, Wkdays Only- Methodist Hospital - Methodist Hospital - San Antonio, TX

services, health information management, and human resources for our non-hospital lines of business, allowing patient care delivery partners to direct all of... From HCA Inc - 26 Apr 2012 08:20:09 GMT - View all San Antonio jobs


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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Registrar Nights - North Hills Hospital - Full-time - North Hills Hospital - North Richland Hills, TX

Shift is Wed. - Sat. 4:30 P.M. to 3 A.M. DUTIES INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO: Interview patients to obtain all necessary account information Ensure charts are... From HCA Inc - twenty-five April 2012 08:21:56 GMT - View all North Richland Hills jobs


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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Hospital Service Technician - Universal Hospital Services - Humble, TX

Work in the hospital for one of the fastest growing healing companies! Universal Hospital Services, Inc... prior work in the hospital or worked with medical... From Universal Hospital Services - 24 Apr 2012 20:46:29 GMT - View all Humble jobs


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Monday, April 23, 2012

Registrar (FT, 5am-930pm Sat/Sun)- Methodist Hospital - Methodist Hospital - San Antonio, TX

services, health information management,and human resources for our non-hospital lines of business, permitting patient caring delivery partners to approach all of... From HCA Inc - 24 Apr 2012 03:20:34 GMT - View all San Antonio jobs


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Sunday, April 22, 2012

Registrar (Evenings) - North Hills Hospital - North Hills Hospital - North Richland Hills - N Richland Hills, TX

DUTIES INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO: Interview patients to obtain all necessary account information Ensure charts are completed and accurate... From HCA Inc - 22 Apr 2012 05:06:04 GMT - View all N Richland Hills jobs


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Saturday, April 21, 2012

Registrar Evenings - North Hills Hospital - Full-time - North Hills Hospital - North Richland Hills, TX

DUTIES INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO: Interview patients to obtain all necessary account report Ensure charts are completed and accurate Verify all... From HCA Inc - twenty-one Apr 2012 06:01:27 GMT - View all North Richland Hills jobs


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Friday, April 20, 2012

Registrar FT, 5am-930pm Sat/Sun- Methodist Hospital - Methodist Hospital - San Antonio, TX

services, health information management, and tellurian resources for our non-hospital lines of business, allowing patient care delivery partners to direct all of... From HCA Inc - 21 Apr 2012 06:01:27 GMT - View all San Antonio jobs


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Hospital Service Technician - Universal Hospital Services - Raleigh, NC

Work in a sanatorium for a single of a fastest growing medical companies! Universal Hospital Services, Inc... previous work in a sanatorium or worked with medical... From Universal Hospital Services - 20 Apr 2012 14:31:13 GMT - View all Raleigh jobs


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Thursday, April 19, 2012

Hospital Service Technician - Universal Hospital Services - Louisville, KY

Work in the sanatorium for one of the fastest growing medical companies! Universal Hospital Services, Inc... prior work in the sanatorium or worked with medical... From Universal Hospital Services - 19 April 2012 18:31:54 GMT - View all Louisville jobs


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Housekeeper Utility - Edward Hospital - Part Time - Weekends Day - Edward Hospital & Health Services - Naperville, IL

hospital building areas, floor care, moves furniture, equipment and supplies in and around Hospital... in order to maintain sanatorium in an orderly and... From Edward Hospital & Health Services - 19 April 2012 08:17:24 GMT - View all Naperville jobs


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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

HOSPITAL COMPLIANCE OFFICER - JFK Memorial Hospital - John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital - Indio, CA

her assigned Hospital... The Hospital Compliance... healthcare program requirements at the hospital level. The Hospital Compliance Officer is also responsible... From Tenet Healthcare - 19 Apr 2012 03:33:12 GMT - View all Indio jobs


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Hospital Medicine - Cincinnati Children Hospital - Cincinnati, OH

ResponsibilitiesClinical Research Practice:Coordinate conduct of clinical studies by scheming crew as well as materials for recruitment, enrollment and... From Cincinnati Children Hospital - 18 Apr 2012 19:42:02 GMT - View all Cincinnati jobs


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Hospital Service Technician - Universal Hospital Services - Syracuse, NY

Work in a hospital for one of the fastest growing medical companies!Universal Hospital Services, Inc... previous work in a hospital or worked with medical... From Universal Hospital Services - 18 Apr 2012 08:56:50 GMT - View all Syracuse jobs


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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Guest Services Representative / Baptist Hospital / FT Days - Baptist Hospital - Nashville, TN

Services Representative City, State: Nashville,TN Location: Baptist Hospital Department: Patient Access Admitting ED Additional Job Details: FT NIghts... From A Member of Ascension Health - 18 Apr 2012 02:54:42 GMT - View all Nashville jobs


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Hospital Supervisor - Select Specialty Hospital - Orlando, FL

This in front of requires a Registered Nurse with 5 years of critical care/progressive care clinical experience to fulfill a duties of a role. BLS and ACLS... From Select Specialty Hospital - 17 Apr 2012 02:32:37 GMT - View all Orlando jobs


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Hospital Service Technician - Universal Hospital Services - Kansas City, KS

Work in the hospital for one of the fastest growing healing companies!Universal Hospital Services, Inc... prior work in the hospital or worked with medical... From Universal Hospital Services - 17 Apr 2012 04:23:50 GMT - View all Kansas City jobs


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Monday, April 16, 2012

Hospital Service Technician - PT - Universal Hospital Services - Canton, OH

Work in the sanatorium for one of the fastest growing medical companies!Universal Hospital Services, Inc... previous work in the sanatorium or worked with medical... From Universal Hospital Services - sixteen April 2012 22:16:40 GMT - View all Canton jobs


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*Environmental Services Aide (Trumbull Memorial Hospital) - Trumbull Memorial Hospital - Warren, OH

Trumbull Memorial Hospital is part of the ValleyCare... Mahoning valley, and is a network of 3 (3) hospitals, and countless outpatient and physician practice... From Community Health Systems - 15 Apr 2012 14:12:43 GMT - View all Warren jobs


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Saturday, April 14, 2012

Housekeeper - Edward Hospital - Part Time - Evenings - Edward Hospital & Health Services - Naperville, IL

Cleans and services hospital building areas, moves... and around Hospital departments. Performs a variety of cleaning duties in order to maintain hospital in an... From Edward Hospital & Health Services - 14 Apr 2012 22:38:19 GMT - View all Naperville jobs


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Hospital Cook - Centennial Peaks Hospital - Louisville, CO

Job Description:Hospital Cook - Per DiemCentennial Peaks Hospital, the 72-bed behavioral healthhospital in Louisville, CO is seeking an experiencedhospital cook... From Centennial Peaks Hospital - 14 Apr 2012 11:45:37 GMT - View all Louisville jobs


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Friday, April 13, 2012

Hospital Attendant 1 (Multiple positions) - Stony Brook-University Hospital - New York, NY

Brook University Hospital, Long Islands premier... medicine.EXTERNAL POSTINGDescriptive Title: Hospital Attendant 1 (Multiple positions) REF#: UH-S-1061... From Stony Brook University - 13 Apr 2012 23:46:15 GMT - View all New York jobs


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Registrar (FT, 10am-630pm, Wkdays Only)- Methodist Hospital - Methodist Hospital - San Antonio, TX

services, health information management,and human resources for our non-hospital lines of business, permitting patient care delivery partners to direct all of... From HCA Inc - 13 Apr 2012 14:26:58 GMT - View all San Antonio jobs


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Thursday, April 12, 2012

Hospital Manager - Enchanted Oaks Animal Hospital - Houston, TX

skills as well as have 3 years experience as a veterinary helper and 3 years experience as a hospital manager. Please email resumes and inquires to erin@eoah.net. From American Animal Hospital Association - 13 Apr 2012 05:41:13 GMT - View all Houston jobs


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University Hospitals Community Hospital Physicians - University Hospitals Medical Practices - Cleveland, OH

University Hospitals Community Hospital Medicine... covering dual community hospitals, a single LTACH. A new 250 bed hospital is being built with need for... From Society of Hospital Medicine - 12 Apr 2012 05:43:06 GMT - View all Cleveland jobs


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Louisiana Nursing Home Medicare Cuts Total $20.3 Million Resulting From Recently-Passed Congressional Tax Bill

WASHINGTON, April 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --A brand new Avalere Health analysis detailing a negative stroke on a nation's Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) resulting from so called "bad debt" supplies passed in a Middle Class Tax Relief as well as Job Creation Act of 2012 finds Louisiana SNFs (more commonly known as nursing homes) will suffer a $20.3 million Medicare funding rebate a sixth largest cut nationally."Like many states, Louisiana's Medicaid program is fragile," said Alan G. Rosenbloom, President of a Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care (AQNHC), which funded a analysis. "Because Medicare as well as Medicaid together pay for a caring of approximately 3 of every four Louisiana nursing home patients, it is consequential to recognize how these brand new federal Medicare cuts dissapoint facilities' already frail funding environment."Regarding health policy, a word "bad debt" is a misnomer, Rosenbloom said. "Nursing homes in Louisiana have no legal recourse to collect 'bad debt' from a Louisiana Medicaid agency -- as well as is some-more accurately described as 'uncollectible debt' as mandated by federal law," stated Rosenbloom. "We must go on to reinforce this fact with congressional leaders, as well as respectfully inspire Louisiana lawmakers to keep this in mind as a budget process progresses."According to a Avalere Health analysis, a "bad debt" cut for nursing homes in a brand new tax law found Florida facilities will catch a largest Medicare rebate ($60.5 million), followed by OH ($30.5 million), IL ($28.8 million), PA ($24.2 million), NC ($22.6) as well as LA ($20.3 million). Additional report as well as methodology records available at www.aqnhc.orgRosenbloom pointed out a nation's nursing home sector is already slated to catch another $48 billion nationally in Medicare reductions between FY 2012-21, as well as which facilities sojourn disproportionately reliant on Medicaid as compared to alternative providers -- with Medicaid paying for 57 percent of patient days.Powered By iWebRSS.co.cc


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Nursing Supv - Lancaster General Hospital - Lancaster, PA

Board of Nursing. Bachelor's grade in Nursing or associated field is required. Master's grade is preferred. Bachelor's or Master's grade must be in Nursing... From Lancaster General Hospital - 12 Apr 2012 16:05:09 GMT - View all Lancaster jobs


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Associate Professor/Professor in Family and Community Health Nursing - VCU School of Nursing - Virginia

of Nursing is seeking a tenure track faculty member atthe Associate Professor/Professor levelin the Department of Family and Community Health Nursing (F54770... From Chronicle of Higher Education - 12 April 2012 09:44:52 GMT - View all jobs


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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

HOSPITAL ADMITTING CLERK - Surgical Specialty Hospital of Arizona - Phoenix, AZ

Surgical Specialty Hospital of Arizona is looking for an gifted Hospital Admitting Clerk with a minimum of one (1) year of sanatorium admitting experience... From Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association - 12 Apr 2012 05:44:11 GMT - View all Phoenix jobs


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Nursing - UC Irvine Medical Center - Orange, CA

of care. Consistently ensures nursing practice is evidence based, inside of scope of licensure and compliant with hospital wide standards of nursing care... 40... From UC Irvine Medical Center - 12 Apr 2012 01:22:18 GMT - View all Orange jobs


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Nursing homes come to Sen. Orrin Hatch's aid

WASHINGTON A traffic group representing nursing homes has given a Utah Republican Party $175,000 over a past year, income which could help Sen. Orrin Hatch stave off a tea party challenge as well as win re-election. If he does, as well as if a Republicans take over a Senate, Hatch stands to chair a committee which has jurisdiction over a tens of billions of Medicare as well as Medicaid dollars which flow annually to nursing homes. The traffic group's income was used to boost attendance at a state's neighborhood caucuses last month, as well as analysts contend a extended congress turnout enhanced Hatch's prospects for winning his party's nomination for a seventh Senate term. That's because a representatives elected to attend a state Republican Convention upon April twenty-one included more moderates as well as fewer of a tea party supporters who two years ago rejected former Utah Sen. Bob Bennett's bid for a fourth tenure in 2010. Nursing homes weren't alone in attempting to help Hatch, now a senior Republican upon a Senate Finance Committee as well as likely to be its authority next year if a GOP takes control from Democrats in a Nov election. A domestic movement committee representing radiologists has spent about $77,000 supporting his candidacy through print ads as well as other activities conducted independently of a Hatch campaign. The contributions uncover how some interest groups are demonstrating their await for Hatch over a $10,000 limit which domestic movement committees must abide by when contributing directly to a candidate's campaign. Such await could be particularly important next year if Republicans take control of a Senate. The Finance Committee has jurisdiction over Medicare as well as Medicaid spending, which is critical to both nursing homes as well as radiologists trying to fend off spending cuts in a coming mercantile year. Nursing homes rely greatly upon federal reimbursements to survive. The federal government's Medicare program is projected to outlay about $31 billion upon nursing home care in 2012. Medicaid, a federal-state partnership, will outlay about $45 billion with nursing homes, according to Health as well as Human Services Department projections. Campaigning in Utah this week, Hatch pronounced he wasn't aware of contributions to a state party organization from Washington-based interest groups. "If any of them gave income because they like me, it is because they agree with what I mount for as well as not because I do what they want," Hatch said. Officials at The Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care declined to comment for this report. The alliance represents 12 companies owning about 1,400 properties throughout a county. Powered By iWebRSS.co.cc


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Certified Nursing Assistant 2-10 - Ringgold Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, LLC - Ringgold, LA

of care.2.Provides nursing caring in suitability with... 1. High School Degree as well as previous Long Term Care Nursing Assistant experience preferred.2.Possesses a... From Ringgold Nursing as well as Rehabilitation Center, LLC - 11 Apr 2012 22:37:16 GMT - View all Ringgold jobs


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Lab Assistant (Hospital) - Mother Frances Hospital - Tyler, TX

Performs phlebotomy procedures, together with skin tests, at Mother Frances Hospital as well as HealthSouth. Maintains supply inventory. Maintains printers, copier, and... From Trinity Mother Frances Hospitals as well as Clinics - 11 Apr 2012 21:06:32 GMT - View all Tyler jobs


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A&M College of Nursing Addressing Nursing Education Issues

The shift from baccalaureate nursing students to a role of veteran nurses is being analyzed by a pair of nurses in an effort to effectively transition senior nursing students to collaborative as well as interprofessional practice. Jodie Gary, Ph.D., RN, from a Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Nursing is working with Cynthia ONeal, Ph.D., RN, from a Texas A&M Corpus Christi College of Nursing as well as Health Sciences on educating tyro nurses as they transition from a role of tyro to professional. This project provides an opportunity to creatively reconfigure a final semester for graduating nursing students. Course topics plan to include ethical, legal, political, professional, collaborative as well as interprofessional aspects relevant to nursing practice. The Nurse Faculty Leadership Academy, developed by a Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau Internationals (STTI) Leadership Institute with a grant from The Elsevier Foundation, will help assuage a helper expertise shortage by providing knowledge, skill growth opportunities as well as support to keep brand brand new helper educators who have transitioned into a role. The 2012-13 NFLA cohort includes 16 scholars, 16 mentors as well as 8 faculty, who represent 29universities, 15 states as well as provinces, as well as four countries including Australia, Canada as well as Thailand. The Elsevier Foundation is gratified to support this module that is helping to develop a brand brand new generation of helper expertise leaders, said David Ruth, senior manager director for a Elsevier Foundation. We believe that when we invest in leadership as well as provide a opportunity for individuals to grow as well as influence others, we have been also helping a broader community of colleagues as well as nursing students down a road, all of whom contribute to mending health care quality. The pairs have been addressing such topics as implementing team teaching structures, developingstrategies to assist brand brand new graduation nurses transitioning to use as well as mending health care through a growth of transdisciplinary teams. Two groups have been working with integrating as well as evaluating clinicalsimulation into a nursing curriculum. The NFLA supports brand brand new helper expertise in their quest to lead a growth as well as implementation of innovative nursing education programs. Through a mentoring relationship as well as a leadership project, academy Fellows focus on developing essential leadership skills as well as learn how to incorporate emerging teaching methodologies such assimulation as well as other technologies into a nursing curriculum, said Suzanne Prevost, Ph.D., RN, COI, STTI president. Research shows that brand brand new expertise who have worked successfully with a mentor have aloft jobsatisfaction, with increased promotions as well as mobility than those but mentors. Faculty who have worked with a mentor have been also some-more prolific in obtaining rival grants, leading veteran organizations as well as publishing in erudite books as well as journal articles. Tony Forrester, Ph.D., RN, ANEF, NFLAs lead expertise member, shares STTIs commitment to individual leadership development. I want helper expertise to be successful some-more than just confident with their career. I want expertise to lead a innovation as well as provide a leadership needed to truly transform nursing education for a future, he said. Powered By iWebRSS.co.cc


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NURSING - Prince George's County, MD

DescriptionCNA, GNA (Licensed and experienced) Busy Home Care Agency Hiring for weekends and Live-in cases only. Permanent assignments in MD, DC &VA! Call... From Joblistonline.com - 11 April 2012 17:08:10 GMT - View all jobs


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INFLUENCE GAME: Nursing homes come to Hatch's aid

WASHINGTON (AP) A traffic group representing nursing homes has given a Utah Republican Party $175,000 over a past year, income which could assistance Sen. Orrin Hatch stave off a tea celebration plea as well as win re-election.If he does, as well as if a Republicans take over a Senate, Hatch stands to chair a committee which has jurisdiction over a tens of billions of Medicare as well as Medicaid dollars which flow annually to nursing homes.The traffic group's income was used to progress attendance during a state's neighborhood caucuses last month, as well as analysts say a extended caucus turnout enhanced Hatch's prospects for winning his party's assignment for a seventh Senate term. That's because a delegates inaugurated to attend a state Republican Convention upon Apr twenty-one included some-more moderates as well as fewer of a tea celebration supporters who dual years ago rejected former Utah Sen. Bob Bennett's bid for a fourth term in 2010.Nursing homes weren't alone in attempting to assistance Hatch, now a senior Republican upon a Senate Finance Committee as well as expected to be its authority next year if a GOP takes carry out from Democrats in a November election. A political movement committee representing radiologists has outlayed about $77,000 supporting his candidacy through print ads as well as other activities conducted exclusively of a Hatch campaign.The contributions show how some interest groups are demonstrating their await for Hatch beyond a $10,000 limit which political movement committees must abide by when contributing directly to a candidate's campaign.Such await could be particularly important next year if Republicans take carry out of a Senate. The Finance Committee has jurisdiction over Medicare as well as Medicaid spending, which is vicious to both nursing homes as well as radiologists perplexing to fend off spending cuts in a coming fiscal year.Nursing homes rely greatly upon federal reimbursements to survive. The federal government's Medicare program is projected to outlay about $31 billion upon nursing home caring in 2012. Medicaid, a federal-state partnership, will outlay about $45 billion with nursing homes, according to Health as well as Human Services Department projections.Campaigning in Utah this week, Hatch pronounced he wasn't aware of contributions to a state celebration organization from Washington-based interest groups."If any of them gave income because they like me, it is because they agree with what I stand for as well as not because I do what they want," Hatch said.Officials during The Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care declined to comment for this report. The alliance represents 12 companies owning about 1,400 properties throughout a county.Utah is one of about a dozen states which place no limits upon how much income can be given to political parties. In past years, companies as well as lawmakers from Utah dominated a party's donor list. But in 2011, traffic groups from Washington moved to a top of a list.The Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care provided a largest concession of a year, $100,000, records show. The group then kicked in another $75,000 this year, pronounced Ivan DuBois, executive director of a Utah Republican Party.A traffic group representing mortgage insurers also donated $40,000, as it did in 2010. Hatch's Senate panel also has jurisdiction over a taxation treatment of mortgage insurance.DuBois pronounced a income a state celebration has lifted supports its operations as well as three initiatives: registering some-more GOP voters, encouraging some-more people to vote by mail as well as boosting caucus participation.The donations from a Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care weren't solicited, he said, as well as a group didn't specify how a income should be used. But "they were excited to see a caucus participation increase," DuBois said.Utah's assignment process is unique. First, voters gather around a state to name delegates for their party's state convention. Then, those delegates vote to determine who should be a party's nominee in a general election. A candidate needs 60 percent of a delegates' await to win a assignment outright.Otherwise, a top dual voters rivet in a first election. Hatch is anticipating to secure a assignment during a convention or advance to a first which would probably include possibly former state Sen. Dan Liljenquist or state Rep. Chris Herrod.Overall, a Utah Republican Party outlayed about $300,000 upon efforts to progress attendance during a neighborhood caucuses last month. While a celebration is officially neutral in a Senate race, its get-out-the-vote effort for a caucuses helped Hatch, pronounced Kelly Patterson, director of a Centers for a Study of Elections as well as Democracy during Brigham Young University."The caucuses last time around were dominated by tea celebration activists who had a really anti-Washington, anti-incumbent bent," Patterson said. "I think huge efforts were made to turn out as many delegates as possible to moderate a effects of a tea celebration ideology."Hatch has outlayed nearly $8.6 million so distant in looking a seventh term. Liljenquist, his chief rival, pronounced a income lifted as well as outlayed by a state celebration seems minimal by comparison. He also pronounced he believed which celebration officials focused their effort upon caucus turnout without favoring any one candidate or ideology."The driving caucus participation is a good thing as well as a celebration used their income fairly," Liljenquist said. "But it pales in comparison to a income outlayed by a Hatch campaign."Hatch has lifted about $3.6 million directly from political movement committees. It's less common for PACs to rivet in campaigning exclusively of a candidate, but that's what a American College of Radiology has done in Utah. The group's PAC outlayed about $77,000 in await of Hatch, according to Federal Election Commission reports."Our effort is not necessarily to stand out from others but to await candidates which have a learn of our issues, which know who as well as what radiologists are as well as do, as well as how a important work which (our) members perform fits into a larger healthcare arena," pronounced Ted Burnes, director of a radiologists' PAC. "We await Senator Hatch as well as others which we think fit this description."James Thurber, director of a Center for Congressional as well as Presidential Studies during American University, pronounced a spending by a traffic groups is a way to thank lawmakers for their work as well as to keep an open communications channel."It doesn't mean they can buy votes. It doesn't mean they can buy influence, but it certainly means they are well known as well as can talk to a senator as well as a senator's staff about issues of their concern," Thurber said.___Loftin reported from Salt Lake City.Powered By iWebRSS.co.cc


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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Orrin Hatch Re-Election Bid Aided By Nursing Home Trade Group

WASHINGTON A trade organisation representing nursing homes has given a Utah Republican Party $175,000 over a past year, income which could help Sen. Orrin Hatch stave off a tea celebration challenge as well as win re-election.If he does, as well as if a Republicans take over a Senate, Hatch stands to chair a committee which has office over a tens of billions of Medicare as well as Medicaid dollars which flow annually to nursing homes. The trade group's income was used to boost attendance at a state's area caucuses last month, as well as analysts say a broad congress turnout enhanced Hatch's prospects for wining his party's assignment for a seventh Senate term. That's because a delegates elected to attend a state Republican Convention on April 21 included more moderates as well as fewer of a tea celebration supporters who two years ago rejected former Utah Sen. Bob Bennett's bid for a fourth term in 2010.Nursing homes weren't alone in attempting to help Hatch, right away a senior Republican on a Senate Finance Committee as well as expected to be a chairman subsequent year if a GOP takes control from Democrats in a November election. A domestic movement committee representing radiologists has outlayed about $77,000 supporting his candidacy through print ads as well as other activities conducted independently of a Hatch campaign.The contributions show how some interest groups have been demonstrating their support for Hatch beyond a $10,000 limit which domestic movement committees must abide by when contributing directly to a candidate's campaign.Such support could be particularly critical subsequent year if Republicans take control of a Senate. The Finance Committee has office over Medicare as well as Medicaid spending, which is critical to both nursing homes as well as radiologists trying to fend off spending cuts in a coming fiscal year.Nursing homes rely greatly on federal reimbursements to survive. The federal government's Medicare program is projected to outlay about $31 billion on nursing home caring in 2012. Medicaid, a federal-state partnership, will outlay about $45 billion with nursing homes, according to Health as well as Human Services Department projections.Campaigning in Utah this week, Hatch pronounced he wasn't aware of contributions to a state celebration classification from Washington-based interest groups."If any of them gave income because they similar to me, it is because they agree with what we mount for as well as not because we do what they want," Hatch said.Officials at The Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care declined to comment for this report. The alliance represents 12 companies owning about 1,400 properties throughout a county.Utah is one of about a dozen states which place no limits on how much income can be given to domestic parties. In past years, companies as well as lawmakers from Utah dominated a party's donor list. But in 2011, trade groups from Washington moved to a top of a list.The Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care provided a largest donation of a year, $100,000, annals show. The organisation then kicked in an additional $75,000 this year, pronounced Ivan DuBois, executive director of a Utah Republican Party.A trade organisation representing mortgage insurers also donated $40,000, as it did in 2010. Hatch's Senate panel also has office over a tax treatment of mortgage insurance.DuBois pronounced a income a state celebration has lifted funds a operations as well as three initiatives: registering more GOP voters, encouraging more people to vote by mail as well as boosting congress participation.The donations from a Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care weren't solicited, he said, as well as a organisation didn't specify how a income should be used. But "they were vehement to see a congress appearance increase," DuBois said.Utah's assignment process is unique. First, voters gather around a state to select delegates for their party's state convention. Then, those delegates vote to determine who should be a party's nominee in a general election. A claimant needs 60 percent of a delegates' support to win a assignment outright.Otherwise, a top two voters rivet in a primary election. Hatch is hoping to secure a assignment at a convention or advance to a primary which would probably include either former state Sen. Dan Liljenquist or state Rep. Chris Herrod.Overall, a Utah Republican Party outlayed about $300,000 on efforts to boost attendance at a area caucuses last month. While a celebration is officially neutral in a Senate race, a get-out-the-vote bid for a caucuses helped Hatch, pronounced Kelly Patterson, director of a Centers for a Study of Elections as well as Democracy at Brigham Young University."The caucuses last time around were dominated by tea celebration activists who had a very anti-Washington, anti-incumbent bent," Patterson said. "I think outrageous efforts were made to turn out as many delegates as possible to moderate a effects of a tea celebration ideology."Hatch has outlayed nearly $8.6 million so far in seeking a seventh term. His chief rival, former state Sen. Liljenquist, pronounced a income lifted as well as outlayed by a state celebration seems minimal by comparison. He also pronounced he believed which celebration officials focused their bid on congress turnout without favoring any one claimant or ideology."The driving congress appearance is a good thing as well as a celebration used their income fairly," Liljenquist said. "But it pales in comparison to a income outlayed by a Hatch campaign."Hatch has lifted about $3.6 million directly from domestic movement committees. It's less common for PACs to rivet in campaigning independently of a candidate, but that's what a American College of Radiology has done in Utah. The group's PAC outlayed about $77,000 in support of Hatch, according to Federal Election Commission reports."Our bid is not necessarily to mount out from others but to support possibilities which have a grasp of our issues, which know who as well as what radiologists have been as well as do, as well as how a critical work which (our) members perform fits into a larger healthcare arena," pronounced Ted Burnes, director of a radiologists' PAC. "We support Senator Hatch as well as others which we think fit this description."James Thurber, director of a Center for Congressional as well as Presidential Studies at American University, pronounced a spending by a trade groups is a approach to thank lawmakers for their work as well as to keep an open communications channel."It doesn't meant they can buy votes. It doesn't meant they can buy influence, but it certainly means they have been known as well as can talk to a senator as well as a senator's staff about issues of their concern," Thurber said.___Loftin reported from Salt Lake City. 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Director of Nursing, RN - Oakridge Nursing Center - Durant, OK

nursing facility located in Durant, OKJob Description:We are searching for the energetic individual to direct the clinical services within the skilled nursing... From ZipRecruiter - 10 Apr 2012 22:27:57 GMT - View all Durant jobs


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LVN Hospital (Jville) - Mother Frances Hospital-Jacksonville - Jacksonville, TX

- CPR- LVN- 2-4 years related experienceLVNs - Consider a Career in the Emergency RoomAs a Trinity Mother Frances ECC LVN, you will have the opportunity... From Trinity Mother Frances Hospitals and Clinics - 10 April 2012 17:21:09 GMT - View all Jacksonville jobs


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Full Time Director of Nursing (DON) / Nurse Management Case Manager - TravelMax Nursing - Kingman, AZ

Looking for executive of case management. Must be experienced RN with 5 years clinical experience and 3 years management experience. o learn more, please call... From TravelMax Nursing - 10 Apr 2012 09:57:17 GMT - View all Kingman jobs


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Monday, April 9, 2012

Epic Hospital Billing Analyst - Lucile Packard Children's Hospital - Palo Alto, CA

Under guidance, identifies business systems resolution requirements by analyzing work processes as well as operations as well as assists in gathering, identifying, evaluating... From Lucile Packard Children's Hospital - 10 Apr 2012 00:20:23 GMT - View all Palo Alto jobs


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Nursing Student Named Jonas Scholar

The Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence has named Nancy McCabe, a doctoral student during Emorys Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, one of 142 Jonas Nurse Leader Scholars nationwide to yield monetary await for research, a University announced last week.The Jonas Nurse Leaders Scholar Program aims to increase a number of doctorally prepared faculty accessible to teach in nursing schools nationwide as well as provides monetary good as well as programs in care development to scholars, according to a Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence website. The module is supported by a Jonas Family Fund during a Jewish Communal Fund.According to a Mar 29 Woodruff Health Sciences Center press release, a Jonas Center will yield more than $2 million to a 142 recipients of a award. The Centers website notes which it will yield selected nursing students in doctoral programs with $10,000 total in two installments: $5,000 for a 2012-2013 educational year as well as $5,000 for 2013-2014.Im really excited as well as really thankful, McCabe said. Its a pretty exciting award.According to a Centers website, a recently awarded scholars will attend a Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence/American Association of Colleges of Nursing care development conference in Washington, D.C. in fall 2013.We have been intensely proud of [McCabe], as well as we know a Jonas Nurse Leader Scholar module will yield her with valuable resources to launch a successful career in educational nursing, Nursing School Dean Linda McCauley pronounced in a Woodruff Health Sciences press release.The Centers website states which one scholar is chosen from each state. Doctorate nursing programs may submit applications as well as yield evidence of a $10,000 funding match as well as $2,500 in await for a Scholar to attend a conference in Washington, D.C.In selecting scholars, a Center looks for evidence commitment to care development, mentoring as well as research, among others.McCabe pronounced which through a program, she will be able to encounter with alternative Jonas Scholars from across a United States during a next few years to discuss investigate as well as ongoing issues such as a stream nursing shortage in a United States. McCabe, who received a bachelors degree in nursing from Duke University in 2007, explained which her investigate focuses on congenital heart disease in a young adult population as well as noted which nonetheless there will likely not be many scholars with a same topic, there will probably be students focusing on similar subjects. She pronounced she believes meeting alternative scholars will good her research.I think its really important which we have more nursing researchers in a country, as well as thats what this grant is doing, she said.The Jonas Center establishes grants as well as several programs to advance professional nursing, according to a Centers website, with a idealisation goal of improving nurse recruitment as well as retention while also increasing diversity among nurses as well as improve nursing practice settings. Contact Jordan Friedman. Powered By iWebRSS.co.cc


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Adjunct Nursing - Cincinnati State - Ohio

clinical/lab instruction.Specifications:B.S.N. with a M.S.N. preferredCurrently protected in the State of OhioTwo years new professional nursing experience From Cincinnati State - 10 Apr 2012 03:40:33 GMT - View all jobs


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First Lady Michelle Obama Joins Forces with Penn Nursing

Newswise On Wednesday at a University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, First Lady Michelle Obama as well as Dr. Jill Biden will announce a major initiative upon nursing as well as veterans health. Mrs. Obama as well as Dr. Biden have been turning to nurses to identify, treat, as well as control investigate upon post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as part of their national initiative Joining Forces, that champions wellness, education, as well as employment between military service members as well as their families. The Department of Defense as well as a Veterans Administration residence as well as treat PTSD, but half of Iraq as well as Afghanistan veterans see healthcare providers outside a VA system. Nurses have been often a first-line providers of caring for veterans with PTSD, as well as nurse scientists at a University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing control a ground-breaking investigate upon this life-altering disorder that leads to clinical care.Penn Nursing scientists have been heading investigators in PTSD as well as trauma, producing evidence-based investigate that is translated into innovative as well as effective clinical care, pronounced Dean Afaf I. Meleis. Experts in PTSD, pain, as well as mishap at Penn Nursing are:Rosemary C. Polomano, PhD, RN, is an expert in pain management, conducting innovative investigate upon a perceptions of pain between military crew as well as upon battlefield analgesia. Her findings showed that regional nerve blocks as well as epidurals shortly after damage led to a statistically significant decrease in pain intensity as well as have a potential to reduce chronic pain, a crucial finding given a high correlation between chronic pain as well as PTSD. Therese Richmond, PhD, CRNP, is leader in damage science, conducting pioneering investigate upon a psychological goods of damage as well as how to residence those effects. In a National Institutes of Health-funded study, she found that even between patients who had relatively minor injuries, a substantial number had PTSD as well as depression, that is a predecessor to PTSD, a year or some-more after a injury. Marilyn Stringer, PhD, CRNP, is an expert in womens health, expanding a understanding of a caring of female service people as well as families in a nation at war. As associate editor of a Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing, Dr. Stringer published a special section upon a care of military nurses in more advanced science as well as use in women's health, including gender differences in a area of PTSD. Mary Ersek, PhD, RN, specializes in pain as well as palliative caring in older adults. Her work with a NIHs PROMIS module as well as her care in a ELNEC curriculum have been mending end-of-life caring for U.S. veterans.Salimah Meghani, PhD, CRNP, is working to residence pain government in low-income as well as minority patients. Her focus upon secular as well as racial disparities in pain treatment can benefit active military personnel, veterans, as well as civilians.Media wishing to cover a event must register at FirstLadyPress@who.eop.gov by 10 a.m. upon Tuesday, Apr 10. To learn some-more about Penn Nursing as well as a Joining Forces initiative, visit www.nursing.upenn.edu. Powered By iWebRSS.co.cc


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Hospital Service Technician - Universal Hospital Services - Indianapolis, IN

Work in a hospital for one of the fastest growing healing companies!Universal Hospital Services, Inc... previous work in a hospital or worked with medical... From Universal Hospital Services - 09 Apr 2012 20:36:08 GMT - View all Indianapolis jobs


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Nursing students can learn in a virtual world at UTA

By Diane Smithdianesmith@star-telegram.com ARLINGTON -- In the practical world, nurses in training from Texas, New York as well as Denmark can use to one side alternative emergency personnel before an anthrax attack, pestilence or tornado grabs headlines.Via computer, students participate in the simulated event which provides the role rehearsal, say experts during the University of Texas during Arlington's College of Nursing, where educators have been taking lessons, discussions as well as conferences in to the 3-D practical world of Second Life.Second Life allows people to emanate avatars as well as environments in spaces called islands. Avatars, which have been free, can interact upon the islands (which cost real money). Second Life received most hype about 6 years ago as the fantasy place to re-invent oneself. Now, it provides an educational apparatus for most universities."People have combined games, but the height allows for the origination of pretty most everything," pronounced Sarah Jones, librarian as well as UT Arlington's coordinator for Second Life.Faculty as well as students meet. Students work upon projects. And workshops as well as conferences can be held without spending income upon transport or facilities. Educators pronounced it is some-more engaging than the standard slideshow in the Web-based seminar."You feel similar to you have been there with them," Jones said. "Even though, in reality, they may be thousands of miles away."Universities, community colleges, nonprofit groups as well as government have been regulating Second Life, according to Linden Lab, the San Francisco-based company which developed the online community. Through it, Texas State Technical College offers an online obligation as well as associates degree in digital media; the Mayo Clinic has conference facilities as well as the bookstore; as well as an international pestilence exercise has been played out by Idaho State University during Pocatello.Steve Jones, highbrow of communications during the University of Illinois during Chicago who researches Internet history, pronounced practical gaming mostly builds upon the spirit of collaboration, as well as which suits education."It's the really useful apparatus for role playing," he said. A simulated terrorist attack involves hundreds of people as well as victims, which can be better coordinated in Second Life rather than in real life, he added.He pronounced which use opportunities will likely become some-more worldly as the program improves."Second Life today is sort of what the Internet was similar to in 1992," he said.UT Arlington stepped in to Second Life in 2009 with the grant through the University of Texas System, Sarah Jones said. Eventually, it was placed under the College of Nursing. UT Arlington pays about $3,500 the year to say its Second Life space.In Second Life, people have been learning in real time, Jones said. They experience each sound as well as motion during the same time. In fall 2010, the nursing seminar enclosed the speaker from Boise State University as well as an assembly member from Poland.On April 14, nurses can attend the conference, "Therapeutic as well as Ethical Implications of Genomics for Nursing Practice," during the practical UT Arlington. Participants will take part via avatar in specialized discussions about the genetics of drugs commonly used in the elderly or terminally ill.Patricia Newcomb, assistant highbrow as well as director of UT Arlington's genomics translational research lab in the College of Nursing, pronounced Second Life provides the great venue for the upcoming conference since the subject is really specialized."There is not the huge mass of nurses interested in which in the single geographic area," Newcomb said. "We have been not concentrated. We need ways to connect with each other."The practical conference additionally works because it is easier upon pocketbooks. Since the recession, it has been some-more difficult to pay for trips, conferences or continuing education opportunities which have been the must for practicing nurses."It's the way for us to network," Newcomb said. "It's easy as well as it's free."Newcomb pronounced she additionally holds the series of journal bar meetings in Second Life which allow people to discuss research as well as publications.Joy Don Baker, the clinical join forces with highbrow during UT Arlington, teaches the graduate course in Second Life. She pronounced figuring out how the height can provide opportunities for simulated use for nurses is important. She likens it to pilots practicing flight in simulation before taking to the air. Eventually, online simulations can emanate the one-in-a-million healthcare scenario so nurses can be ready to reply when asked, "What do you do?"Diane Smith, 817-390-7675Twitter: @dianestar Looking for comments?Powered By iWebRSS.co.cc


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Nursing - Mizell Memorial Hospital - Opp, AL

Now Hiring - Competitive Pay! NURSING Administration: Director of Nursing (DON) Med/Surg: LPN (FT) 7p-7a RN (FT) 7p-7a Laboratory: MT/MLT (PRN) Varied... From al.com - 08 Apr 2012 10:17:50 GMT - View all Opp jobs


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Sunday, April 8, 2012

Seventh resident of Donegal nursing home dies from flu

irishtimes.com - Last Updated: Sunday, Apr 8, 2012, 15:01FIONA GARTLAND as well as KITTY HOLLANDA seventh resident from a nursing home in Donegal has died from flu today, a HSE has said.The aged resident, who had been living in Nazareth House private nursing home, Fahan, near Buncrana, died at Letterkenny General Hospital.The HSE pronounced it is closely monitoring 7 residents at a home who had been diagnosed with a condition as well as five were showing "definite signs of improvement".Another aged patient died on Friday, but which death was not thought to be part of a flu outbreak.Over a past fortnight, in between Mar 22nd as well as Apr 2nd, six alternative people ? aged in their 80s as well as 90s ? died at a nursing home as a result of a outbreak. The most recent death was certified by a family GP.No means of death has been released publicly but HSE North West pronounced on Friday it was of a perspective which this death was ?not related to a current outbreak?.It is reported which up to 14 residents in a care home have influenza as well as they have been segregated from alternative residents.Since a outbreak, residents at a home, which is run by a religious congregation a Sisters of Nazareth, have perceived anti-viral treatments.A HSE North West mouthpiece pronounced its public health team, including doctors, nurses as well as surveillance scientists, continued to closely conduct as well as monitor a situation.The health senior manager reiterated its advice that, while flu was usually a relatively mild infection, it could be a very serious illness among a aged as well as was a common means of death in older people.?People should be wakeful of a simple measures they can take to reduce a risk of infection. These include covering your nose as well as mouth with a tissue when you cough as well as sneeze, disposing of a tissue as shortly as possible as well as washing your hands with soap as well as H2O as shortly as you can afterwards.?A mouthpiece pronounced people visiting older residents of nursing homes ? including healthcare staff ? should ensure their influenza vaccinations were up to date.A Health Information as well as Quality Authority inspection group visited a home this week but declined to contend when it would publish its report.The authority was called in to a nursing home when a GP notified a HSE about a flu conflict on Apr 1st, after five people had died over a reduced period.A report earlier this week from a European Centre for Disease Prevention as well as Control pronounced that, during February as well as Mar this year, a number of older people failing of a influenza A (H3N2) pathogen had been greater than expected across Europe.Doctors have suggested a return of H3N2 this year has had an stroke on older patients, who sometimes react badly to a flu vaccine. The H3 strain enclosed in a seasonal vaccine given to at- risk people given last September is an imperfect match for a strain of a pathogen currently infecting patients. Powered By iWebRSS.co.cc


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Seventh resident dies from flu at Donegal nursing home

irishtimes.com - Last Updated: Sunday, Apr 8, 2012, 15:01FIONA GARTLAND as well as KITTY HOLLANDA seventh resident from a nursing home in Donegal has died from flu today, a HSE has said.The aged resident, who had been living in Nazareth House private nursing home, Fahan, near Buncrana, died during Letterkenny General Hospital.The HSE pronounced it is closely monitoring seven residents during a home who had been diagnosed with a condition as well as five were showing "definite signs of improvement".Another aged patient died on Friday, though that death was not suspicion to be part of a flu outbreak.Over a past fortnight, between March 22nd as well as Apr 2nd, six other people aged in their 80s as well as 90s died during a nursing home as a outcome of a outbreak. The many new death was certified by a family GP.No cause of death has been released publicly though HSE North West pronounced on Friday it was of a opinion that this death was not related to a stream outbreak.It is reported that up to 14 residents in a care home have influenza as well as they have been segregated from other residents.Since a outbreak, residents during a home, that is run by a religious congregation a Sisters of Nazareth, have received anti-viral treatments.A HSE North West spokeswoman pronounced a public illness team, including doctors, nurses as well as notice scientists, continued to closely manage as well as monitor a situation.The illness executive reiterated a advice that, while flu was usually a relatively mild infection, it could be a very serious illness among a aged as well as was a usual cause of death in older people.People should be aware of a simple measures they can take to reduce a risk of infection. These include covering your nose as well as mouth with a hankie when you cough as well as sneeze, disposing of a hankie as soon as possible as well as washing your hands with soap as well as water as soon as you can afterwards.A spokeswoman pronounced people visiting older residents of nursing homes including healthcare staff should ensure their influenza vaccinations were up to date.A Health Information as well as Quality Authority inspection team visited a home this week though declined to say when it would publish a report.The authority was called in to a nursing home when a GP notified a HSE about a flu outbreak on Apr 1st, after five people had died over a short period.A inform progressing this week from a European Centre for Disease Prevention as well as Control pronounced that, during February as well as March this year, a number of older people dying of a influenza A (H3N2) virus had been larger than approaching across Europe.Doctors have suggested a lapse of H3N2 this year has had an impact on older patients, who sometimes react badly to a flu vaccine. The H3 strain included in a seasonal vaccine given to at- risk people since final September is an imperfect compare for a strain of a virus currently infecting patients. Powered By iWebRSS.co.cc


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Director Of Nursing - Millennium Nursing and Rehab - Huntsville, AL

health or psychiatric nursing may substitute for... Nursing : This position will assist the Director Of Nursing in directing all activities associated to nursing... From al.com - 08 Apr 2012 10:17:49 GMT - View all Huntsville jobs


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Nursing - Mizell Memorial Hospital - Opp, AL

Now Hiring - Competitive Pay! NURSING Administration: Director of Nursing (DON) Med/Surg: LPN (FT) 7p-7a RN (FT) 7p-7a Laboratory: MT/MLT (PRN) Varied... From al.com - 08 Apr 2012 10:17:50 GMT - View all Opp jobs


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Saturday, April 7, 2012

Hospital Service Technician - PT - Universal Hospital Services - Houston, TX

Work in the hospital for one of the fastest growing medical companies!Universal Hospital Services, Inc... previous work in the hospital or worked with medical... From Universal Hospital Services - 07 April 2012 20:18:44 GMT - View all Houston jobs


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Nursing - UC Irvine Medical Center - Orange, CA

of care. Consistently ensures nursing practice is evidence based, within scope of licensure as well as compliant with hospital wide standards of nursing care... 40... From UC Irvine Medical Center - 07 Apr 2012 13:10:20 GMT - View all Orange jobs


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Hospital Service Technician - Universal Hospital Services - Kansas City, KS

Work in a hospital for one of the fastest growing medical companies!Universal Hospital Services, Inc... prior work in a hospital or worked with medical... From Universal Hospital Services - 07 April 2012 00:04:07 GMT - View all Kansas City jobs


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Rural nursing homes face closure without plan

While its hard to suppose wanting nursing home care, a fact is which at least 70 percent of people over age 65 will require some kind of long-term caring as well as a odds have been even higher for people who have been 85 or older. Today, some 7,000 Maine residents as well as their families rest upon their local nursing home as well as it may surprise readers to know which they have been overwhelmingly satisfied with this choice.According to My Innerview, an independent inhabitant long-term caring benchmarking company, 93 percent of families gave their Maine nursing home an overall excellent or good rating, with a same percentage indicating a strong willingness to recommend to others a home where their loved a single receives caring as well as services. Maine consistently outscores neighboring states as well as a country in these rankings.Given this information, a Calais communitys response to a prospect of losing its local nursing home is not at all surprising. The concern is understandable as well as underscores a important purpose of a nursing home as both an employer as well as illness caring provider in rural Maine. But whats function in Calais should serve as a wakeup call for communities as well as lawmakers around a state, as it foreshadows whats to come for most rural comforts if state illness process remain status quo.There have been specific, identifiable contributing factors in a demise of a rural nursing home in Maine. And I believe they have been also preventable. First as well as perhaps a most obvious is a nursing homes disproportionate faith upon public appropriation to survive. While most think of MaineCare as a illness program for a poor, a states Medicaid program funds nearly 75 percent of a caring for our nursing home residents. Today, a appropriation opening between a price of caring as well as a states payment for which caring has increased to $21 per day, or $32 million statewide per year.Historically, these losses have been equivalent by Medicare as well as those who compensate privately for their care. However, some rural nursing homes have been affected by a Maine process which allows critical access hospitals to directly compete for these Medicare funds through use of swing beds.Maines critical access hospitals have been located in rural locations as well as some very near to their communitys nursing home. Swing beds allow a hospital to use a beds for acute caring or short-term rehab care. It is a process which has helped preserve access to acute caring services in rural areas but unintentionally has created a disadvantage for nursing homes in a same area.This underscores a necessity of enough MaineCare appropriation for nursing homes.The last factor which must be addressed is a fact which Maine has an aging stock of nursing homes, quite in rural areas. The average nursing home is more than 30 years old as well as there have been only three new comforts assembled in a past 12 years. Despite recent regulatory changes which encourage renovations as well as improvements, Maine lags behind much of a republic in building modern comforts which have been truly written to support a patient-centered caring model which did not exist 30 years ago.If we have been to encounter future demand as well as retain high levels of customer satisfaction, we must be prepared to yield a caring sourroundings which includes larger, private rooms, built-in technology, private bathrooms/showers, more windows as well as in-room services. Todays comforts have been not built to support these preferences.Maines long-term caring providers have a long tradition of caring for Maines elderly as well as disabled residents. They have been honored to caring for a organisation of people which society largely ignores until being hits home. The consequences of underfunding, conflicting process as well as an overall state of indifference toward long term caring have been entrance home to roost.We do not have a tolerable model of long-term care, precisely at a time when our demographics show we need one. This issue goes far beyond a borders of Calais. Without change, most rural nursing homes could find themselves in a same position in a future.Richard Erb is president as well as CEO of Maine Health Care Association in Augusta.Powered By iWebRSS.co.cc


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Friday, April 6, 2012

Nursing student gets award for helping crash victim

An Indiana University Kokomo nursing student was upon her approach to Northwestern Elementary School upon the snowy day in January when she missed her turn as well as witnessed the automobile wreck that would change her life.The snow was blowing as well as the roads were sharp in Howard County upon Jan. 26.Alexis Martin, 22, was headed to Northwestern Elementary School to shade the schools nurse for the day. But because the roads were icy, she missed the turn, as well as her GPS re-routed her.I ended up upon the back nation road, Martin said.She was following the black sport utility vehicle when it lost carry out as well as hit the small car, Martin said.Martin immediately pulled over to the side of the highway as well as dialed 9-1-1. While she waited for help to come, she cared for the single of the crash victims who was seriously injured as well as trapped in her car.Her quick thinking earned her this years Indianapolis Star Salute to Nurses Student of the Year grant worth $3,500.Im honored, Martin said. we overtly didnt think we would get it. Nothing similar to this has ever happened to me.After being nominated by faculty during IU Kokomo for the award, Martin had to write the 300-word essay about herself.Martin pronounced committing her thoughts upon the crash to paper was difficult.Im unequivocally not good during talking about myself, she said.But upon the recent afternoon, she talked about her heroic actions with ease. Not that she deliberate them heroic.Once Martin called for help, her instinct was to assist the victims, she said. When she got out of her car, she noticed the mother as well as child climbing out of the SUV. They had only minor injuries, she said.No the single moved inside the small Kia, though. She walked over to find the woman unconscious as well as trapped in the drivers seat.She checked the womans airway, breathing as well as circulation the first thing she learned in nursing school. The woman wasnt breathing, though she had the clever pulse, Martin said.I called out to her the few times to get her to wake up, Martin said. Then she yelled for me to help her out of the car.The womans leg was trapped, as well as Martin didnt know the extent of the womans injuries. She knew the woman shouldnt be moved.Instead, Martin focused upon comforting her.I held her hand as well as told her to keep breathing, Martin said. She was hyperventilating. we kept reassuring her that she was alive as well as help was upon the way.Martin stayed during her side until medics arrived.That was the moment, she said, the life-changing moment. That was the day we realized we was meant to be the nurse.Linda Wallace, dean of IU Kokomos School of Nursing, pronounced Martin will have the good one.Alexis rapid, ease response in an puncture is an example of what we hope for from all of the students as well as graduates, she said. She did us all proud, serving the community in the meaningful demeanour in the time of need.Martin pronounced the Indiana State Board of Nursing was looking to award the grant to the student who done the difference.I guess my story fit perfectly for what they wanted, she said. Lindsey Ziliak, Tribune education reporter, may be reached during 765-454-8585 or lindsey.ziliak@kokomotribune.comPowered By iWebRSS.co.cc


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Home Health Director of Nursing - American Nursing Services - Chicago, IL

services is looking to sinecure an experiencedRN for the Home Health Director of Nursing position in downtown Chicago. Will be responsible for managing as well as providing... From American Nursing Services - 06 Apr 2012 22:04:46 GMT - View all Chicago jobs


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CNA (Certified Nursing Assistant) - The Willows Nursing & RC - Sun Prairie, WI

CNA / Certified Nursing Assistant - HealthcareJob DescriptionAs a Certified Nursing Assistant ( CNA... Successful Certified Nursing Assistants want to make... From Extendicare - 06 Apr 2012 13:59:52 GMT - View all Sun Prairie jobs


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Thursday, April 5, 2012

Patient Account Representative(Hospital) - Mother Frances Hospital - Tyler, TX

HS diploma or GED Some college or technical training 1 to 3yrs hospital-patient accounts Related knowledge in billings, collections, accounting systems... From Trinity Mother Frances Hospitals and Clinics - 06 April 2012 04:02:44 GMT - View all Tyler jobs


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Nursing Home Profits Remain Astonishingly Strong Despite Industry Griping

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Today, Brian Lee, Executive Director of Families for Better Care, called recent nursing home earning reports astonishing. Nursing homes remain rarely profitable despite last years proclamation by a United States Department of Health as well as Human Services to adjust a Medicare payment rate by 11.1% to better enter into Medicare payments with costs. Year-end as well as fourth entertain earning statements for publicly traded nursing homes (summarized within this release) show a thriving enterprise with companies reporting strong balance sheets as well as better than expected operating results. One companys annual revenues spiked nearly 200% whilst another nursing home chain lauded that 2011 was an exceptional year. The industrys analysts framed a Medicare adjustment as an eventual doomsday for a nations nursing home market. But a industrys own reports show quite a opposite, revealing surging revenues, strong profits, as well as expansion through acquisitions, pronounced Lee. The industry is wallowing in strong profits whilst unwell to consistently provide peculiarity care. Resident caring remains mediocre during best, as far too many residents grieve from untreated pressure sores, falls, abuse, or other negligent medical practices. The reason caring declines in nursing homes is that executives unnecessarily target labor costs to offset any payment adjustments, Lee said. While this obviously maintains a robust bottom line for investors as well as cushy CEO salaries, a decrease in frontline staff puts residents in danger for harm whilst simultaneously creating dangerous working conditions for employees. A recent study by a University of California-San Francisco shows a steady decrease in nursing hours for Medicare-licensed facilities as well as an unacceptably high level of deficiencies. Lawmakers contingency demand greater transparency as well as avowal from nursing home companies as well as their affiliates. This will allow payment systems to be restructured, guaranteeing taxpayer dollars go directly to resident caring as well as safety, Lee commented. But until that happens, operators will continue to draw down massive profits whilst elderly as well as disabled residents are shortchanged. Families for Better Care, Inc.is a citizen advocacy organization dedicated to peculiarity resident caring in nursing homes as well as other long-term caring settings. Executive Director Brian Lee served as Floridas State Long-Term Care Ombudsman for most of a past decade. Summary of publicly traded nursing homes year-end as well as fourth entertain reports AdCare Source: http://bit.ly/adcaresummary 2011 highlights Record annual revenues up 198% to $151.4 million Record annual income from operations comes in during $2.7 million Record annual adjusted EDITBAR from continuing operations, up 453% to $16.8 million Acquisitions add more than estimated $76 million in annualized revenue Fourth entertain highlights Revenues increasing 76% to close during a record $45.4 million from $25.8 million in same entertain in 2010 Advocat Source: http://bit.ly/advocatsummary 2011 highlights Revenues increasing 8.5% over prior year end, from $290 million to $314.7 million Medicare rate increasing 11.9% compared to prior year Medicare Part B revenues increasing by $2.1 million Fourth entertain highlights Total census increasing 17% over same entertain in a prior year Revenue increasing 3% to $77.8 million compared to $75.5 million Skilled census increasing 14.6% Medicaid increasing 5% Medicare Part B revenues increasing 18.2% Ensign Group Source: http://bit.ly/ensignsummary 2011 highlights Consolidated revenues up 16.7% to $758.3 million Net income climbed 17.6% to $47.7 million despite Medicare cuts Operating results better than expected Ensigns balance piece remains strong Fourth entertain highlights Acquired six long-term caring facilities, bringing portfolio to 103 facilities, 78 owned, twenty-five leased 11 states Kindred Health Care Source: http://bit.ly/kindredsummary 2011 highlights Consolidated revenues increasing by 27% to $5.5 billion compared to $4.4 billion in prior year Fiscal 2011 was an exceptional year for Kindred Operating cash flows grew 11% to $238 million Fourth entertain highlights Revenues grew 34% to $1.5 billion Operating income rose 25% to $200 million National Health Care Source: http://bit.ly/nhcsummary 2011 highlights Net income to shareholders increasing by 25.8%, $55.4 million compared to $44 from a prior year Annual operating revenues increasing 7.3% to $773 million from $723 million Fourth entertain highlights Operating revenues increasing .5% to $192 million Skilled Health Care Group Source: http://bit.ly/skilledhcgsummary 2011 highlights Cash flows were a strong $99.4 million Revenue increasing 6% to $869.7 million from $820.2 million over a prior year Fourth entertain highlights Revenue decreased by 2.9% from $220.7 million to $214.4 compared to prior years entertain Sun Healthcare Source: http://yhoo.it/sunhealthcaresummary 2011 highlights Consolidated revenues up 1.8% to $1.93 billion Fourth entertain highlights On Medicare adjustments-Impact of therapy changes was reduction than originally projected Executing a strategy of attractinghigh acuity, short-stay residents as well as complementing with expansion of ancillary services Powered By iWebRSS.co.cc


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Housekeeper - Edward Hospital - Part Time - Night - Edward Hospital & Health Services - Naperville, IL

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Nursing director thinks she was target of shooter

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) An administrator during the small Christian university where 7 people were killed this week pronounced Wednesday she was the alleged gunman's primary intended aim after she deserted his steady requests for the reinstate of his tuition.Ellen Cervellon, director of the nursing module during Oikos University, pronounced she wasn't upon campus Monday when her former student, One Goh, came looking for her afterwards went upon his rampage.Two days later, in an talk with The Associated Press, the jarred Cervellon pronounced the slayings are haunting her."I have which weight upon my shoulders as well as we don't know what to do with it," she said, her voice quavering. "Every singular the single of those students were going to be an excellent, glorious nurse. They're in my heart, as well as they always will be."Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan confirmed Cervellon was the apparent target. Officer Johnna Watson, the police spokeswoman, pronounced after which police are looking in to the probability which other administrators had been targeted.Goh, 43, was charged Wednesday with 7 counts of murder as well as three counts of attempted murder, plus the special business allegation of committing mixed murders which could make him eligible for the death penalty.Shackled as well as showing little emotion, Goh pronounced nothing during the brief justice coming other than the soft "yes" when the judge asked if he understood the charges. He did not enter the plea.In the police affidavit, Officer Robert Trevino pronounced Goh acknowledged going to Oikos upon Monday with the .45-caliber handgun as well as four magazines of ammunition."He admitted to kidnapping the woman as well as forcing her from her office in to the classroom during gunpoint," Trevino pronounced in the statement. "He admitted to shooting as well as killing several people inside the classroom, prior to receiving the single of the victim's automobile keys as well as fleeing the scene in the victim's car."Police arrested Goh about an hour after the shooting debauch during the supermarket the couple of miles from campus.A tyro wounded in the uproar pronounced Goh burst in to the classroom cheering as well as quickly began firing his weapon. Ahmad Sayeed was shot through the shoulder as he scrambled to get out with other panicked students.The 36-year-old immigrant nursing tyro from Afghanistan pronounced he did not understand what Goh was yelling, though he did hear him sequence students to line up in front of the classroom.Sayeed pronounced he has been this frightened once prior to when the Taliban pounded his high propagandize in the Nangarhar province of Afghanistan."The exact thing happened during my school," Sayeed said. "The Taliban came in as well as killed five students. we was very fearful then, too."Cervellon pronounced Goh dropped out of the nursing module during the little private propagandize around November though returned numerous times to ask her for the full fee refund.Goh got angry when she told him the propagandize could not reinstate all his money since he had been enrolled for nearly half of the program, she said. Cervellon pronounced she did not know how much Goh had paid in tuition.Police have pronounced Goh was looking the female administrator when he went to the campus Monday. When he was told she wasn't there, they said, he began shooting in classrooms, killing 6 students as well as the receptionist as well as wounding three others.Jordan previously pronounced Goh was angry after being expelled from the school, though Cervellon pronounced he was never expelled as well as motionless to leave upon his own."He was never forced out, he showed no behavioral problems, as well as he was never asked to leave the program," she said. "He motionless upon his own to leave the program."Police pronounced they made contact with Cervellon after saying the AP story. Jordan pronounced investigators plan to talk her soon, as well as which many details were still unclear."We were told by witnesses which he was kicked out, though there could be some facts which he wasn't," Jordan said. "I do know which he was perplexing to get his down payment or fee reimbursed."During previous meetings with Cervellon, Goh also pronounced he felt his classmates were picking upon him during the school, which was founded to help Korean immigrants adjust to life in America as well as launch new careers, she said. Goh is the native of South Korean who became the U.S. citizen.Jordan has pronounced Goh also was upset since other students had teased him about his bad English skills.However, Cervellon as well as nursing professor Romie John Delariman pronounced they never heard about or witnessed Goh being ridiculed for problems with English. Delariman pronounced Goh was the good tyro who didn't seem to struggle with his second language."He was the full-time tyro as well as was unequivocally motivated. If we taught something he would be the first person in line to do it," Delariman said.Still, Goh appeared to be the aggressor in exchanges with others during the school, according to Efanye Chibuko, whose mother Doris Chibuko was between those killed in Monday's attack.Chibuko pronounced his wife, the native of Nigeria who was elected president of her nursing class, felt Goh was unstable."My mother was fearful of him," he told the AP. "She was fearful he would do something like he did. She knew the other victims, as well as they talked about it. They were fearful which he was going to come behind as well as do what he did."Chibuko pronounced he's angry with propagandize officials for not doing more to protect the students."They were all living in fear. My mother told me the guy had been violent toward the propagandize staff as well as had kicked the walls as well as stuff like that," he said. "So they knew. They should have had confidence in place."Delariman pronounced he noticed which Goh had problems, in particular, traffic with women in his predominantly female nursing classes."He can't stand women," Delariman said. "He pronounced he never used to work with women, or understanding with women in the work environment or the propagandize setting."It's unclear how Goh earned the living prior to he became the nursing tyro during the propagandize of about 100 students. His instructors as well as the former employer pronounced he previously worked in construction.Chong Sik Hwang, owner of C.H. Trading Co. in San Mateo, pronounced he hired Goh as the deliveryman during the Asian grocery importing as well as distribution operation in 2009. Goh was fired the couple of months after after Hwang heard Goh had gotten in to an argument with the customer.After creation an primary impression as "upbeat," Hwang pronounced Goh turned out to be the "very stubborn" worker who didn't take direction well."He had to do it his way," Hwang said. "He was always right."During the job interview, Hwang pronounced Goh told him he had left the mother as well as 12-year-old daughter in Virginia. Goh was evicted from an apartment in Gloucester County, Va., in 2009 as well as left the string of debts behind, including behind taxes due to the federal government.Hwang pronounced Goh told him he ran the building a whole association upon the East Coast though which the business had left under.Online records in two Virginia localities where he lived show that, while Goh was there, he racked up tens of thousands of dollars in liens as well as judgments, including the $10,377 debt to SunTrust Bank in 2006.___Burke reported from San Francisco as well as can be reached during http://twitter.com/garanceburke . Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Paul Elias as well as Marcus Wohlsen in San Francisco, Tracie Cone in Fresno, as well as Matthew Barakat in McClean, Va.Powered By iWebRSS.co.cc


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Ex-nursing home administrator to pay nearly $900K

It took a Daily News investigation, three attorneys general as well as eight years, though a disgraced former nursing home administrator is finally paying up, a Daily News has learned.For years, Ruby Weston, who operated two nonprofit Brooklyn nursing homes, used money intended for resident caring to enrich herself as well as her family. It was often taxpayer money.The News exposed her questionable financial dealings in 2004, as well as two years later, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed a civil authorised case against her as well as a nursing homes.A settlement agreement was finally reached this week that requires Weston to repay $871,000.It is inexcusable for someone to profit at a expense of elderly, frail as well as vulnerable New Yorkers in nursing homes, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said.While a 85-year-old Weston ran a 295-bed Marcus Garvey Nursing Home as well as a 240-bed Ruby Weston Manor, she paid herself a $500,000 annual salary as well as directed more than a $1 million to her son, Earl Weston, for IT work.Funds from Marcus Garvey also were used to pay for her Brooklyn Heights apartment together with furniture, health club memberships as well as a brand new car every two years.She also was paid a $500,000 bonus in 1995 for beginning construction of Ruby Weston Manor.And even after a authorised case was filed, Weston remained in control at Marcus Garvey. She did so until 2008, as well as was removed from Ruby Weston Manor in Mar 2010.She was paid $383,000 by Ruby Weston Manor in 2009.The agreement requires Weston to forfeit $821,000 in deferred compensation as well as to pay a state $50,000 to cover authorised expenses. The Marcus Garvey home will keep a $821,000. She also concluded never again to become an military officer of any New York nonprofit organization.Both homes have a history of providing substandard care, as well as a agreement calls for an overhaul in a way Marcus Garvey is run. Ruby Weston Manor is slated to be sold to a for-profit nursing home company.I'm glad to hear about a money, though what it comes down to is that residents were cheated for years as well as years from a caring they deserved, said Richard Mollot, executive director of a Long Term Care Community Coalition as well as a longtime advocate for nursing home residents. It's sad.A woman who answered Westons home phone said that she was very ill as well as incapable of taking a message.Westons attorney did not respond to a call for comment.With Heidi Evansblesser@nydailynews.com Powered By iWebRSS.co.cc


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Ex-nursing home administrator Ruby Weston agrees to pay nearly $900,000 in settlement

It took the Daily News investigation, three attorneys general as well as eight years, though the disgraced former nursing home administrator is finally profitable up, the Daily News has learned.For years, Ruby Weston, who operated dual nonprofit Brooklyn nursing homes, used money intended for proprietor care to enrich herself as well as her family. It was mostly taxpayer money.The News exposed her questionable monetary dealings in 2004, as well as dual years later, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed the civil lawsuit against her as well as the nursing homes.A allotment agreement was finally reached this week which requires Weston to pay off $871,000.It is inexcusable for someone to profit at the expense of elderly, frail as well as exposed New Yorkers in nursing homes, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said.While the 85-year-old Weston ran the 295-bed Marcus Garvey Nursing Home as well as the 240-bed Ruby Weston Manor, she paid herself the $500,000 annual income as well as steered more than the $1 million to her son, Earl Weston, for IT work.Funds from Marcus Garvey also were used to pay for her Brooklyn Heights unit together with furniture, health club memberships as well as the new automobile each dual years.She also was paid the $500,000 bonus in 1995 for beginning building the whole of Ruby Weston Manor.And even after the lawsuit was filed, Weston remained in control at Marcus Garvey. She did so until 2008, as well as was removed from Ruby Weston Manor in March 2010.She was paid $383,000 by Ruby Weston Manor in 2009.The agreement requires Weston to pledge $821,000 in deferred remuneration as well as to pay the state $50,000 to cover legal expenses. The Marcus Garvey home will keep the $821,000. She also agreed never again to become an officer of any New York nonprofit organization.Both homes have the history of providing substandard care, as well as the agreement calls for an overhaul in the approach Marcus Garvey is run. Ruby Weston Manor is slated to be sold to the for-profit nursing home company.I'm glad to hear about the money, though what it comes down to is which residents were cheated for years as well as years from the care they deserved, pronounced Richard Mollot, executive director of the Long Term Care Community Coalition as well as the longtime advocate for nursing home residents. It's sad.A woman who answered Westons home phone pronounced which she was very ill as well as incapable of taking the message.Westons attorney did not respond to the call for comment.With Heidi Evansblesser@nydailynews.com Powered By iWebRSS.co.cc


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Full Time Director of Nursing (DON) / Nurse Management Clinic - TravelMax Nursing - Hancock, MI

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Chief Operating Officer-Jewish Hospital - Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's HealthCare - Louisville, KY

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12 nursing students consolidate suits against MSU

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Twelve Mountain State University nursing students have been collectively suing MSU, former president Charles Polk as well as a board of trustees for fraud, breach of stipulate as well as deliberately misleading them about a severity of a program's accreditation problems, according to court documents. Students in a soon-to-be-defunct nursing program blamed a actions of Mountain State officials for their "loss of employment, loss of educational opportunities, significant debt, mental anguish as well as loss of professional reputation," according to an amended censure filed in Kanawha County Circuit Court on March 23.Last month's amended censure consolidates some previous student lawsuits which had already been filed in court. This is one of a first times Charles Polk as well as a MSU trustees have been specifically listed by name in a lawsuit addressing a school's accreditation failures.The trial date is set for January 2013, said Stephen New, a Beckley attorney representing a twelve MSU students. He said about 30 additional nursing students would file a joint suit against MSU officials in Kanawha County court later this week. The lawsuit in Kanawha County, which represents only one of several pending suits against MSU across a state, alleges which MSU administrators intentionally tried to hide a accreditation problems from students. It additionally highlights serious hurdles facing hundreds of students who have been still caught up in MSU's accreditation problems.School of Nursing officials were told a school would remove its national accreditation with a National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission in Jul 2010, two years after school officials were warned of problems. The accreditation was a kind of third-party guarantee which a program is meeting established quality standards. In February, a state nursing board said it would revoke MSU's nursing program as well as a school must shutter a program in August for many of a same deficiencies identified by a national accrediting body. Students in a nursing program say MSU administrators -- from former nursing vanguard Nancey France to suspended president Charles Polk -- misled students for years in both course sessions as well as emails, waging a campaign of misinformation about a school's accreditation situation as well as self-denial report about a severity of a problems so students would continue profitable tuition as well as fees, according to a amended complaint. Students like Heather Brewster, a nursing student who was scheduled to graduate in May 2013, began a nursing program in August 2010 as well as was told which a program was both nationally accredited as well as state accredited, according to a complaint. Those assurances came despite report dating behind to Jul 2008 which laid out problems which could potentially cripple a nursing program. In a Jul 2008 letter to Charles Polk, a executive director of a national accrediting body told Polk which a NLNAC had placed MSU's program on warning as well as would reevaluate a accreditation situation in spring 2010, at which point accreditation could be revoked, according to a lawsuit. In Jul 2009, a state nursing board launched a full investigation in to MSU's School of Nursing amid concerns which a school had repeatedly failed to meet state accreditation requirements.MSU officials failed to discuss it Brewster as well as a other students named in a lawsuit about a problems, but rsther than told students at a January 2010 course session which "anything a plaintiffs as well as others listened was only rumor which a plaintiffs should ignore," according to a lawsuit. Students lay which because of a loss of both state as well as national accreditation, they will be unable to sit for their licensing exams, cannot apply to a master's in nursing program, have been saddled with significant monetary debt, as well as will be forced to withdraw from clinical programs they have been currently enrolled in. Students have said they have been having incredible trouble anticipating an additional school which will accept MSU's nursing credits, meaning which if they transfer schools, they will have to begin from scratch. So far, MSU has refused to refund any tuition money to a students, has refused to address a problems in a nursing program as well as has offered no apologies, according to a lawsuit. The students in a lawsuit have been seeking a full refund on their tuition, along with punitive damages as well as lawyer costs. Reach Amy Julia Harris at amy.har...@wvgazette.com or 304-348-4814.Powered By iWebRSS.co.cc


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Sabra Acquires Two Skilled Nursing Facilities; Makes Mezzanine Loan Investment

IRVINE, Calif., April 3, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sabra Health Care REIT, Inc. ("Sabra," a "Company" or "we") (Nasdaq:SBRA - News) today announced a merger of dual learned nursing comforts as well as a appropriation of a mezzanine loan investment.Pennsylvania Subacute PortfolioOn Mar 30, 2012, you sealed a squeeze of dual specialized learned nursing comforts (the "Pennsylvania Subacute Portfolio") in a sale-leaseback transaction with affiliates of a sellers for $29.9 million. Each facility has 60 licensed beds as well as a single facility was most recently renovated in 1990, whilst a other facility was most recently renovated in 2008. In connection with a acquisition, we, through an indirect wholly owned subsidiary, entered into a single 15-year triple-net master lease agreement with a sellers with dual five-year renewal options. The Pennsylvania Subacute Portfolio lease provides for annual lease escalators next to to a greater of a change in a Consumer Price Index or 2.5%, resulting in annual lease revenues dynamic in accordance with GAAP of $3.4 million as well as an initial produce upon cash lease of 9.50%. The squeeze price was saved with available cash.Commenting upon a Pennsylvania Subacute Portfolio acquisition, Rick Matros, CEO as well as Chairman, said, "These dual subacute comforts have been unique in a number of ways. They have been learned nursing comforts in name only. These have been subacute ventilator facilities. The population in a single is primarily young adult whilst a other is center elderly to elderly. They do a immaterial amount of Medicare commercial operation as well as therefore a CMS final rule did not stroke this business. The primary source of revenue is state-funded Medicaid as well as Managed Care through specialized rates for ventilator as well as other complex conditions. States have been recognizing that there needs to be an alternative to a acute-care setting for these patients as well as a price is appreciably less in a learned nursing setting than in any other institutional setting. Most importantly, this government team takes a programmatic approach to provide quality outcomes to a population it serves which is what truly is important to both a state as well as a managed care companies. These comforts also treat other diseases such as MS as well as ACLS although a patient population consists primarily of ventilator dependent individuals. Now that Medicare has augmenting payment for these types of patients these comforts might see augmenting Medicare revenues over time. We have been gratified to be associated with such a brazen looking government team. Their commercial operation model is ahead of a bend but clearly where a industry is headed. We appreciate a opportunity to be aligned with them."Meridian Mezzanine LoanOn Mar 15, 2012, you entered into a $10.0 million mezzanine loan agreement ("Meridian Mezzanine Loan") with affiliates of Meridian Equity Investors, L.P. (the "Borrowers"), with an choice to squeeze three learned nursing comforts as well as a single assisted vital facility located in Texas as well as owned by a Borrowers (the "Meridian Facilities") before Mar 31, 2013 for up to an aggregate squeeze price of $43.0 million as well as augmenting by 2.5% for each of a dual years thereafter. The Meridian Mezzanine Loan is secured by a Borrowers' equity interests in four entities that own as well as operate a Meridian Facilities. The Meridian Mezzanine Loan has a five year term as well as bears interest at a fixed rate of 11.0% per annum. Upon execution of a squeeze choice you would design to enter into a new 15 year master lease having 2 five-year renewal options at an initial cash produce of a greater of 9.25% or fair marketplace lease as dynamic at a start of a lease. The comforts operation in age from 9 to 17 years as well as have a total of 394 licensed beds. Commenting upon a transaction, Mr. Matros said, "The Meridian Mezzanine Loan is an opportunistic investment that should generate an attractive produce for a shareholders whilst providing us with a flexibility to squeeze a properties as well as add to a augmenting list of operator relationships. We have been excited to begin a relationship with a Meridian team. They have a strong track jot down in a industry as well as this investment gives us an opportunity to fund their collateral needs and, in time, expand a portfolio with quality learned nursing as well as assisted vital assets."ABOUT SABRASabra Health Care REIT, Inc. (Nasdaq:SBRA - News), a Maryland corporation, is a self-administered, self-managed real estate investment trust (a "REIT") that, through its subsidiaries, owns as well as invests in real estate portion a healthcare industry. Sabra leases properties to tenants as well as operators via a United States. As of Mar 30, 2012, as well as after giving outcome to Sabra's merger of a Pennsylvania Subacute Portfolio, Sabra's investment portfolio consisted of 99 properties ((i) 78 learned nursing facilities, (ii) ten combined learned nursing, assisted vital as well as eccentric vital facilities, (iii) six assisted vital facilities, (iv) dual mental illness facilities, (v) a single eccentric vital facility, (vi) a single stability care retirement community, as well as (vii) a single acute care hospital) as well as 1 mezzanine loan investment. As of Mar 30, 2012, Sabra's properties were located in twenty-four states as well as included 10,997 licensed beds.The Sabra Health Care REIT, Inc. trademark is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=8563FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS SAFE HARBORStatements done in this release that have been not historical or current facts have been "forward-looking" statements (as tangible in a Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 as well as a federal bonds laws). These statements might be identified, without limitation, by a use of "expects," "believes," "intends," "should" or comparable terms or a negative thereof. Forward-looking statements in this release embody all statements per a expectations concerning (i) a merger of a Pennsylvania Subacute Portfolio as well as a destiny performance of those facilities, as well as (ii) a Meridian Mezzanine Loan that you done as well as a choice to squeeze a Meridian Facilities, including a expectations per a destiny performance of those comforts should you determine to exercise a squeeze option.Our actual formula might differ materially from those projected or contemplated by a forward-looking statements as a result of assorted factors, including, among others, a following: a coherence upon Sun Healthcare Group, Inc. until you have been able to serve diversify a portfolio; a coherence upon a operating success of a tenants; changes in general mercantile conditions as well as volatility in financial as well as credit markets; a coherence of a tenants upon payment from governmental as well as other third-party payors; a significant amount of as well as a capability to use a indebtedness; covenants in a debt agreements that might restrict a capability to make acquisitions, incur additional high regard as well as refinance high regard upon auspicious terms; increases in marketplace interest rates; a capability to raise collateral through equity financings; a relatively illiquid inlet of real estate investments; rival conditions in a industry; a detriment of key government personnel or other employees; a stroke of litigation as well as rising insurance costs upon a commercial operation of a tenants; uninsured or underinsured losses affecting a properties as well as a probability of environmental correspondence costs as well as liabilities; a capability to validate as well as maintain a standing as a REIT; correspondence with REIT requirements as well as sure tax matters related to standing as a REIT; as well as other factors discussed from time to time in a news releases, public statements and/or filings with a Securities as well as Exchange Commission, especially a "Risk Factors" sections of a Annual as well as Quarterly Reports upon Forms 10-K as well as 10-Q. 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