Nursing News

The pay of public sector workers will have been cut by thousands of pounds over the lifetime of the coalition Government because of wage freezes, VAT hikes and changes to benefits and tax credit, according to a new study.

LTC Properties of Westlake Village, Calif., built the 58,000-square-foot Hillside Heights Rehabilitation Suites at 6650 S. Soncy Road to replace Canyon Healthcare in Canyon.

Two well-known and well-respected nursing homes in the area have new names. Harmony Community Healthcare and Tweeten Lutheran Healthcare Center of Spring Grove are now known as Gundersen Harmony Care Center and Gundersen Tweeten Care Center, respectively.

DIXON – Local nurses next fall will have a convenient way to continue their education.

Legislation proposed in Albany would let Adirondack Health run a part-time emergency room in Lake Placid.

ERIC HEIL, 30, of Plumsteadville, is co-founder, president and chief executive of RightCare Solutions Inc., a health-care tech company specializing in reducing re-admission rates.

Two nurses who failed to give basic life support to an 81-year-old woman at Stafford Hospital, recording that she was asleep when she was actually dead, have been found guilty of misconduct.

Five years ago, Darice Greene moved from Pittsburgh to Jacksonville in pursuit of a better life.

Reilly Roberts plays saxophone during practice in Oregon for Thursday's SVM All-Star Classic at Sauk Valley Community College.

The school has signed a deal with the Virginia Community College System, allowing registered nurses who graduated from a member school to be guaranteed admission to the UVa School of Nursing.

Ohio's nursing home industry is hoping to tweak distribution of increased quality incentives even as those incentives may again disappear from the next two-year state budget.

NORTH HAMPTON A 79-year-old man who was severely burned in a camper fire at the Shel-Al campground Monday morning has died, a hospital spokesman confirmed.

ONE of the top bosses who oversaw major failings at a troubled hospital trust will continue to receive her A 109,730 salary from the organisation while working elsewhere.

An 11-year-old boy is out of the hospital two weeks after a 5-foot-long eastern diamondback rattlesnake bit his leg.

Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust chief nurse Sherree Fagge said staff should wear a coat if they did not want to change out of their work clothes.

Dozens of teachers and health care providers went back to the classroom recently.

A new study published June 17 in JAMA Internal Medicine showed that eating red meat over time was associated with a higher chance of developing the most common form of diabetes.

Health Ministry director-general Prof. Ronni Gamzu promised the Knesset Finance Committee on Monday that 1,300 medical students would graduate every year to cope with the growing shortage of physicians.

Dear Dr. Roach: My father, 79, used to play 18 holes of golf three times a week, but after a recent gallbladder removal, he started showing some unusual symptoms.

THE SOCIAL NETWORK star ARMIE HAMMER has been secretly nursing a broken hand after a drunken night out in Russia.