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<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 00:20:47 GMT</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 18:56:17 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[National Nurses Week 2012]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[National Nurses Week for 2012 once again was successful in creating awareness and demonstrating appreciation to all the nurses for their contributions to the patients and employers in which they serve.  Each year National Nurses Week begins on May 6th and ends on the birthday of Florence Nightingale........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 18:41:57 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Health System Measurement Project]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Health and Human Services (HHS) has created a new web based tool, known as the Health System Measurement Project, that will help to track performance of the nation's health care system.  This web based tool basically brings together data from multiple federal government publicly available data sets ........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 18:04:53 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Travel Nursing Jobs Leader, Aureus Medical, Releases Top Qualities of a Successful Travel Nurse]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Aureus Medical Group released the top qualities of a successful travel nurse in response to National Nurses Week.  

First, nurses must have flexibility.  This is important because travel nurses must be open to all locations and workplace options.  Travel nurses may choose their locations, however o........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 00:49:39 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[U.S Senate panel launches investigation of pain-killers, drug companies]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[The U.S Senate Committee on Finance has opened a federal investigation into federal relationships between companies who make narcotics and non profit organizations who advocate their use for pain treatment.  The committee is seeking financial and marketing reports by the companies who make opiod dru........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 20:55:39 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Joint Commission Issues Standard Revision to Address Patient Flow in EDs]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[The Joint Commission has issued new changes to hospital accreditation standards to address patient flow in emergency departments.  The changes affect standard LD.04.03.11: The hospital manages the flow of patients througoght the hospital. The hospital must set and maintain goals for managing patient........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 15:22:48 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Final nursing school class graduates]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Springfield Regional School of Nursing held it's final graduation ceremonies Tuesday.  The college will merge with Clark State Community College this fall.  This nursing school opened in 1904 and has seen 3,000 nursing students graduate from it's program as the former Community Hospital.  The combin........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 15:12:28 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Student nurse gives back to homeland with Kenyan mission]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Student nurse Grace Mbuthia came from Kenya to Kansas City.  She is attending school at St. Luke's College of Health Science.  She has been raising money and asking for donations for medical supplies for a mission in the village she grew up in called Kiamunyeki.  It will be used in a ten day medical........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 16:34:12 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[South Florida Community College nursing students launch "Who Can Help" project]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[In a need to address the overwhelming link to low income, uninsured people with access to free state resources, South Florida Community College nursing students have created an aggressive community resource project.  It is called "Who Can Help" project, lead by student nurses.  The goal of the proje........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 16:25:33 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Careers in Nursing Growing Fast]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[In a recent Gallup poll, the nursing profession is expected to grow 26 percent by 2020.  This is faster than any other profession, and it does not just relate to nurses in hospital settings.  It also refers to physicians offices, home health and other locations, including travel nurses.  These stati........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 16:49:21 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Feds announce biggest ever Medicare Fraud, totalling $450 million]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[107 people have been charged with Medicare fraud, including nurses and doctors in the U.S in seven cities.  They have been accused of taking part in schemes to cheat the Medicare system out of hundreds of millions of dollars through false billing.  Social Workers as well as health company owners are........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 16:40:44 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Bomb Threat at Loma Linda Hospital a hoax, police say]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[After a bomb threat, Loma Linda Hospital has been reopened.  A man recently walked into the Emergency Room claiming that he had a bomb strapped to his chest.  However, the man was harmless and the device was not an explosive.  The San Bernadino Police Department gave the clear around 11:30 after hav........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 16:32:35 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[American Psychiatric Nurses Association Celebrates National Nurses Week and Mental Health Month with free Continuing Nursing Education and Mindfulness]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[To raise awareness of the importance of mental health issues, the American Psychiatric Nurses Association is celebrating Mental Health month  They are recognizing mental health nurses and healthcare professionals for their dedication to their contribution for fighting mental health illnesses.  They ........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:00:33 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Hospitals streamlining costs, hiring more nurses]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[In Southern Arizona, the market is slowly picking up for nursing jobs.  This is despite the budget cuts of the state that is affecting hospitals.  Hospitals with a high enrollment rate and a lot of help from the government have been affected.  However, the outlook for jobs has increased.  There are ........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 01:50:33 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[2 Minnesota nurses fired for failing to test blood sugar for 7 patients, writing down fake results]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Two nurses at Cook Nursing Home did not conduct blood sugar tests on seven patients.  However, they filed reports with false information.  Each of the residents had a mental impairment.  Both of the employees of the nursing home were licensed registered nurses.  The names of the nurses and patients ........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 01:40:05 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[In Hopeful Sign, Health Spending is Flattening Out]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[In the last couple of years, optimum has grown about the U.S government's spending on healthcare.  It has slowed enormously in the last few years.  Some of the slow down has been caused by the recession though.  Medicare and Medicaid however are the two biggest contributors to the nation's debt.  Pr........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 01:27:09 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Health System Changes inspire more Med Students to pursue dual degrees]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[In today's world, some med students are deciding that one medical degree is not enough. Most U.S schools offer their students a change to have dual degrees- either from law, business, communication and so on.  Some of these schools have been offering dual degrees for at least a few decades.  More re........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:53:47 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Older school: Nursing programs drawing students over 40]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[At Heartland Community College, the growing amount of middle aged nurses graduating from the school is growing.  The normal student in the nursing program is a non-traditional student.  None of the students in the 40 students in the program are traditional.  Traditional students usually do not go to........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:44:33 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Nursing home aide charged with thefts from elderly patients]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[A 27 year old Nursing aide working in Ohio is charged with theft after being accused of stealing jewelry from three elderly patients.  The victims were 90, 85 and 95 years old.   She admitted to taking the stolen items to a local pawn shop, but did not admit to stealing all of the items.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 02:08:11 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[As Supreme Court mulls healthcare, rumors fly]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[This week wrapped up the last of the oral arguments in the Supreme Court for it's current term.  It could take as long as two months of waiting for the decision.  As people, wait, rumors start to circulate.  Wagers and bets are also being placed worldwide.  In Dublin, more than 1,300 trades have bee........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 01:56:09 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Superfood: Berries may delay memory decline]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[With the number of elderly who suffer from Alzheimer's continues to rise, scientists a looking into ways to slow memory decline through food and nutrients.  As of now, nothing has been proven to work.   The latest food to be studied are berries.  In a study of women, over the age of 70 participated.........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:45:42 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[New Virginia House Bill Outlines how Nurse Practitioners and Physicians Practice Together]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[This new Virginia law amends provisions governing the practice of nurse practitioners such that the nurse practitioners shall only practice as part of a patient care team and shall maintain appropriate collaboration and consultation with at least one patient care licensed physician.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 02:00:05 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Emory Healthcare notifies individuals regarding missing data]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Emory Healthcare has determined that ten disks containing backup information on surgical disks relating to information on patients between 1990 and 2007 has gone missing from a Emory University Hospital storage location.  There was an extensive search done once the information was discovered missing........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 01:18:44 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Parental Knowledge of Poor Dietary Choices Not Enough to Prevent Childhood Obesity, Study Shows]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[150 preschoolers were studied suggests that healthy weight and dietary factors have a high knowledge of health and factors that impact obesity.  The study was done by John's Hopkins Children's Center and All Children's Hospital located in Florida.  It also suggests that knowledge alone is not enough........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:48:17 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Panel Proposes A New Tax To Pay For Public Health]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Experts from the Institute of Medicine have suggested that the best way to cut government spending on healthcare is to impose a tax on every transaction.  It is yet a to be determined tax amount, however the amounts would go to replenishing the state and nation's healthcare public health offices.  E........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 02:44:18 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Purdue University approves cancer research facility]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[In a 15. 9 million dollar contract, The Purdue University Board of Trustees approved the contract to start building a cancer research center in Discovery Park.  A construction company located in Lafayette, Indiana was awarded the $12.3 million contract to begin building the center.  The building wil........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:56:20 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Linking Payment to Quality Outcomes]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[The law establishes a hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) in Original Medicare.  The VBP links provider payments to improved performance by health care providers.  This form of payment holds health care providers accountable for both the cost and quality of care they provide.  It attempts to reduc........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:49:57 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Reducing Paperwork and Administrative Costs]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Health care remains one of the few industries that relies on paper records.  The new law institutes a series of changes to standardize billing and requires health plans to begin adopting and implementing rules for the secure, confidential, electronic exchange of health information.  Using electronic........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:44:41 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Understanding and Fighting Disparities]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Effective March 2012, in order to help to understand and reduce persistent health disparities, the law requires any ongoing or new federal health program to collect and report racial, ethnic, and language data.  The Secretary of Health and Human Services will use this data to help identify and reduc........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:31:03 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Encouraging Integrated Health Systems]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Effective January 1, 2012, the new law provides incentives for physicians to join together to form "Accountable Care Organizations".  In these groups, doctors can better coordinate patient care and improve quality, help prevent disease and illness, and reduce unnecessary hospital admissions.  If Acc........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:27:28 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Increasing Access to Services at Home and in the Community]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[The new Community First Choice Option allows states to offer home and community based services to disabled people through Medicaid rather than institutional care in nursing homes.  This Community First Choice Option is effective beginning October 1, 2011.  The affordable Care Act supports states in ........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:22:28 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[New Innovations to Bring Down Costs]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Administrative funding becomes available October 2011.  The Independent Advisory Board will begin operations to develop and submit proposals to Congress and the President aimed at extending the life of the Medicare Trust Fund.  The Independent Payment Advisory Board is expected to focus on ways to t........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:57:54 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Preventative Services Covered Under the Affordable Care Act]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[For new health insurance plans beginning on or after September 23, 2010, the following services must be covered without your having to pay a copayment or co-insurance or meet your deductible.  This applies only when these services are delivered by a network provider.  The covered preventative servic........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:06:08 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[USA Cancer Research Fund Application Deadline Approaching]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[The Mitchell Cancer Institute at The University of South Alabama created the USA Cancer Research Fund to support small research projects that can be carried out over a small amount of time with limited resources.  The goal of this project is to foster support across the university and help cancer re........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 01:56:57 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Utah: Data Breach May Include 750,000 People]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[In the state of Utah, health officials say that over half a million people have had there information stolen by hackers, including information of children.  Any one that has submitted their information to the Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program within the last four months is at risk.  T........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 01:45:23 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Florida Nursing Homes Suffer Biggest National Medicare Cut From New Federal Tax Law]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Florida's skilled nursing facilities will suffer a $60.5 million Medicare cut that will result from a recently passed "bad debt" provision.  It is the highest Medicare cut of all states nationally.  It is even doubles Ohio's Medicare cuts- at $30 million.  Ohio is currently second nationally ranked ........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 01:31:41 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Ohio University's Nursing School gets federal grant to enroll and train more students]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[In order to educate unemployed nurses and those who are trying to earn credentials, Ohio University has been given a $5 million dollar federal grant from the US Department of Labor.  The money will be used by the university to pay for administration and tuition for students.  Three quarters of stude........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 01:24:23 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[US Labor Department's OSHA Announces new National Emphasis Program for Nursing and Residential Care Facilities]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[The United States Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration will target nursing homes and residential care facilities in hopes of reducing occupational injuries and illnesses.  Under the new National Emphasis Program for Nursing and Residential Care facilities, employees wi........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 01:15:14 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Nursing Director Believes She Was Suspect's Target]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[In Oakland, California, an administrator who runs the Oikos University's nursing program is under the assumption that she was the target of Monday's mass shooting at the school.  One Goh, the shooting suspect had an encounter with the administrator, named Ellen Cervellon.  He approached her wanting ........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 01:09:28 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Bertrand Chaffee and Jennie B. Richmond Nursing Home nurses approve contract]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Members of the New York State Nurses Association, Bertrand Chaffee and Jennie B. Richmond Nursing Home nurses have come to an agreement lasting for three years.  Approved on March 22, this agreement improves pay, adds increased pay for higher degrees and labor meetings to occur regularly. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:56:25 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[New Rules for New Yorkers: Home or Nursing Home?]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[There are new state rules in New York that could determine whether seniors with low-income would go to reside.  Advocated want New Yorkers to stay home, rather than go to a nursing home to live.  Studies show that most people prefer to live at home than go to a nursing home.  The administration says........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:24:21 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Immigration changes pose threat to nursing numbers, says Royal College of Nursing]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[The Royal College of Nursing in the United Kingdom has extremely grave issues and concerns about changes to the United Kingdom policy on immigration. This immigration policy will which will have nursing staff from overseas forced to leave Britain unless they are earning more than a specified amount ........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:19:46 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Hundreds of Michigan Nurses March on Capitol to Advocate for Patients, Communities]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Nurses and nursing students took to the Capitol, trying to advocate for patients and their communities to be a priority.  There were more than 500 who came out for the cause.  This year's rally was focused on the Safe Patient Care Act, which requires Michigan to have their hospitals provide minimal ........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:07:10 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[University of Michigan OKs new nursing facility]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[A new skilled nursing facility for students and faculty has been authorized by the University of Michigan- at a cost of $50 million.  The project was approved on Thursday, and will add 75,000 more square feet of space to the nursing school.  It will include a clinical learning center included with l........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:40:17 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[UMASS Dartmouth College of Nursing in top 100]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[In the annual ranking of US and World Report, The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's College of Nursing ranked 79th out of 100 nursing colleges across the nation.  This placed the college in the 12th percentile for nursing schools.  The ranking comes from faculty and peers at the nursing colleg........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:47:55 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Proposed Pennsylvania state cuts in mental health services spur suit]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[A lawsuit was filed on Wednesday by advocates for persons with mental health disabilities claiming that the Pennsylvania governor put aside too little funding for the aid of these individuals.  The people also claim that state law was broken because of the fact that too little funding was put aside.........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:38:08 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Hope wanes for major assisted-living reforms in Florida]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[As the 2012 Florida legislative session was underway, many advocates for the elderly and aging thought that there would finally be some reform for nursing facilities in Florida. There have been many years of neglect and too many deaths caused by it.  The governor's task force called for new protecti........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:33:09 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Shuttered San Francisco Bay area nursing school sued]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Several former students who attended a California nursing school are now suing the institution.  The school was shut down recently by state regulators.  The owners of the Institute of Medical Education's owners are being accused of misleading students.  The school served over 250 students and also o........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:11:41 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Loyola University New Orleans School of Nursing Awarded National Scholarship]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[A national scholarship by the Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence was awarded to Loyola University School of Nursing.  This will help pay for tuition for a new student planning to participate in the Doctor of Nursing Program this year.  This program was started to partner with nursing schools to sup........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:00:17 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Nursing home workers to picket Friday]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[In Danbury and Westport, Connecticut, nursing home workers working in a support of colleges that have been locked out of a Milford facility have taken to the streets to picket and protest this.  Workers from four other facilities ran by HealthBridgeManagement LLC-owned nursing homes will also picket........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:54:17 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Former nursing home CFO sentenced 3-6 years for embezzlement]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[The former chief financial officer of a Casper, Wyoming nursing home has been ordered to pay $41,000 in restitution as well as serve 3-6 years behind bars for embezzlement.  This is the states largest run nursing home and the effects will have a permanent mark on the facility, opened and run by the ........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:30:15 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Mayo Clinic Study on yips presented at World Scientific Congress of Golf in Scottdale, Arizona]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Yips, a condition that golfers frequently deal with, and baffles scientists will be the focus of a conference done by the Mayo Clinic on March 16th in Scottdale, Arizona.  The World Scientific Congress of Golf is held every four years and was began in 1990 in St. Andrews, Scotland.  Yips affects anx........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:19:19 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Dade Medical College Presents $10,000 to the American Cancer Society in Support of the Fight Against Breast Cancer]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Dade Medical College in Southern Florida assisted in the American Cancer Society with a $10,000 donation to help fight cancer.  The college supports programs like this one noting prevention and education of breast cancer were important.  The check was presented during a community health fair on camp........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:23:25 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[CVS Pill Mix-Up: Expert Says Kids Likely Weren't Hurt From Accidentally Taking Breast Cancer Medication]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[In a New Jersey pharmacy, medication was mixed up and children received medication for breast cancer, instead of chewable fluoride tablets.  However, only a handful of children took the pills.  Investigators are still working to try and figure out how this mix-up actually occurred.  In the meantime,........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:15:27 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Clyde W. Cosper Texas State Veterans Hospital receives National Nursing Home Top Ranking]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[When US News and World Report released it's 2012 Honor Roll for skilled nursing facilities, Clyde W. Cosper Texas State Veteran's Hospital in Bonham, Texas made the list.  This is also one of the top 120 facilities in Texas, and received the highest rating, five stars, from the Centers of Medicare a........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:43:48 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Kings County Hospital Receives $3.5 Million from City Council Brooklyn Delegation to Expand Cancer Center]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York has received funds to purchase new linear accelerator  to provide radiation therapy to cancer patients.  This will benefit hundreds of patients who receive care at the facility.  There are mire than 600 new cases of cancer presented at Kings County Cancer ........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:46:17 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Providence Hospital now offers DaVinci Robotic Surgery System]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Providence Hospital in Mobile, Alabama has announced it's use of the DaVinci Robotic Surgery System this week.  This new technology was able to make it's way into the hospital based on donations to the Providence Hospital Foundation.  The hospital first used the robot November of 2011.  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:50:32 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Saint Alphonsus Health System $33.5 Million Nampa, Idaho Expansion]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Saint Alphonsus Health System in Nampa, Idaho is investing $33.5 million dollars in expanding medical services to the community.  Among the jobs that will be created are 500 construction positions and 85 full time-staff jobs.  Completion for this project is scheduled to be finished by late 2013.  Th........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:14:15 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Alabama Plans to Shut Down Most Hospitals For Mentally Ill]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[By Spring 2013, Alabama wants to have most of it's mental health facilities closed.  This is in effort to cut costs and change how patients receive care.  They will relocate mentally ill patients from hospitals to private care.  This is due to Alabama's shrinking budget and the decision to close fou........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:14:33 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Care New England Rejoins Hospital Association of Rhode Island]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Effective April 1, Care New England Health System will rejoin the Hospital Association of Rhode Island, hoping to unify their voices and have a strong coalition in today's changing healthcare world.  Care New England resigned from the Association in 2003, but still works with them on a variety of is........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:49:30 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Norovirus found on George Washington University campus]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Since Norovirus was found on the campus of George Washington University on Monday, roughly 84 people have gotten it.  This is a virus that is commonly found on cruise ships.  The DC department of health has been working on this issue with the university and it is not uncommon for this type of virus ........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:24:44 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[UCLA School of Nursing, Los Angeles Unified School District Get Middle Schoolers Moving]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Fueled by a 2.5 million dollar grant, Assistant Professor and Nurse Faulty Scholar at the University of California Los Angeles School of Nursing and the Los Angeles Unified School District recently launched a project entitled Shape LA.  This is a school health program intended to increase physical a........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:02:17 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Oakland, San Jose Nursing Schools  shut down]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Due to reports of false accreditation claims, State Regulators have closed nursing schools in the Bay Area of California.  The Institute of Medical Education, with campuses in both Oakland and San Jose educates roughly 250 students.  After investigators from the California Bureau for Private Postsec........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:21:22 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[New York Methodist Hospital Introduces Geriatric Hip Fracture Program]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[New York Methodist Hospital, which is part of the New York Presbyterian Health System has introduced recently a Geriatric Hip Fracture program which is designed to help care for the elderly who will fracture a hip or who have.  Over 300,000 Americans each year will experience a fractured hip, and th........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:08:11 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Administration at Announces New Steps to Fight Alzheimer's Disease]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[In new efforts to fight Alzheimer's Disease, the Obama Administration has recently reported that it will make at least $50 million available to put towards new technology and research.  It will include $26 million extra for support by caregivers, provider education and public education.  President O........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:56:32 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Helen Bernardy Center Ranked Among Nation's Best Nursing Homes]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[The Helen Bernardy Center for Medically Fragile Children at Rady Children's Hospital- San Diego has been ranked for the fourth year in a row as one of the best nursing homes by US News and World Report.  This report highlights nursing homes with the best performance yearly.  The center provides 24 h........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:44:36 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Anonymous Donor Triggers Chain Of Three Kidney Transplants in Two States]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[In a sequence of six surgeries began by an anonymous kidney donor, three people in two states received transplants.  Two surgeries took place at Sanford University of South Dakota Medical Center and four took place at the University of Minnesota Amplatz Children's Hospital and University of Minnesot........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:09:57 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Florida hospitals bracing for more Medicaid cuts]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Governor for Florida Rick Scott plans to cut two billion in funding to the state's hospitals.  These hospitals provide care for the poor and if the funding is cut, the care of these people will suffer.  Republicans in the Legislature are opposed to this plan though.  Scott wants to use the funds els........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:56:11 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Enhancing the golden years: Interprofessional center focus on innovative care in aging]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[At Johns Hopkins University, the School of Nursing is focused on the aging population.  To address the needs of the older generation of Americans, The Center For Innovative Care in Aging was recently founded.  This will try and support the well being of the elderly and their families.  The center wi........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:08:46 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Hospital studies minimally invasive alternative to open heart surgery for common heart disease]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Participating in a national study, Yale-New Haven Hospital is evaluating procedures that will minimize evasion for open heart surgery.  This will be an alternative to the routine open heart surgery for patients with severe aortic stenosis.  The CoreValve System is a procedure that replaces a disease........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:50:44 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Bill Gates Donates $750 Million To Shore-Up Disease Fighting Fund]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Bill Gates donated millions to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria on Thursday.  Because of the recent cash shortages, Gates make this substantial donation to the fund.  The Global Fund assists more than three million people by providing them AIDS drugs, and gave two million mosq........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:03:51 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[McLeod Home Health Named As One Of The Top 500 Home Health Agencies In The Country]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[McLeod Home Health, which serves patients in Florence, Marion, Dillion, Lee and Darlington counties in South Carolina has been names on of the top 100 home health agencies.  It has been put into the top five percent of all home health agencies in the country by the 2011 Top 500 HomeCare Elite, which........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:19:02 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Catholic hospital group dropping church affiliation]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[The Bay Area based chain of one of the nation's largest hospital systems is ending it's affiliation with the Catholic Church as well as changing it's name, hoping it will help them expand.  Catholic Healthcare West also operates four hospitals in the Bay Area also operates four hospitals in that sam........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:06:47 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Hofstra North Shore Long Island Jewish School of Medicine Joins Forces with First Lady Michelle Obama to Combat PTSD and TBI]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[This past week, the Whiter House joined forced with LIJ to enrich medical education.  This is aiming to create a new generation of doctors, nurses and medical and healthcare professionals to ensure that veterans receive excellent medical care.  Special care will be taken to train healthcare professi........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:06:25 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[HCA-Owned Hospital Ordered to Pay $178 Million in Suit]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[In the largest ever case for fraud and neglect in northeast Florida, an HCA owned hospital has been ordered to pay out $10 million to a patient that sued for punitive damages.  This happened at Jacksonville's Memorial Hospital.  The plaintiff was awarded $178 million.  The hospital was found liable ........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:39:22 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[A Nurse Need Never Forget]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[These days, there are so many drugs and medications out there, nurses may not know all of them or be able to answer questions regarding them.  However, technology is changing all that.  When a nursing student is now faced with a question that they do not know the answer to, all they have to do is lo........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:23:07 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Northeast Georgia Medical Center Places in HealthStrong Top 100 U.S. Hospitals]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Northeast Georgia Medical Center, located in Gainesville, was recognized as one of the top 100 hospitals in the nation by HealthStrong.  HealthStrong only recognizes the top 3 percent of hospitals in their Hospital Strength Index.  This index is a comprehensive rating system that compares general ac........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:37:54 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Volunteer Nurses Backbone of Agency Founded in 1971]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[In Kansas City, nurses take care of those who cannot pay for doctor's visits.  The Kansas City Free Health Clinic holds fund-raisers to be able to afford to do these kinds of services to the community.   Nurses say that it is giving back to the community and it's a good thing to do.  Some volunteer ........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:20:40 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[US News and World Report Ranks Chamberlain College of Nursing Among Top Five Online Graduate Programs in Nursing in Faculty Credentials and Training]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Among the top Nursing Colleges in the nation, Chamberlain College in Illinois has been ranked number four among 39 online degree programs.  This is the first time that US News and World report has ever ranked online programs for education.  High scores for Chamberlain came from faulty with a doctora........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:08:58 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Injuries to Headphone -Wearing Pedestrians Struck By Cars And Trains More Than Triple Since 2004, According to University of Maryland Researchers]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[New research from the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore and the University of Maryland School of Medicine and suggests that serious injuries occur to pedestrians wearing headphones.  This results because the pedestrians cannot hear the sound of honking horns over what they are curre........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:50:40 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Carolina's Medical Center-Kannapolis Opens For Patients]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Cabarrus County, located outside of Charlotte, North Carolina will open it's first free standing Emergency Room department on Monday, January 16, 2012.   This is the third healthcare facility to be opened by Carolina's HealthCare System.  CMC-Kannapolis will offer and extension of healthcare service........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:39:59 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Presbyterian Hospital performs Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Presbyterian Hospital in the Carolina's performs the first ever transcatheter aortic valve replacement.  This was done after approval from the FDA's post clinical trail in November 2011.  The program was launched at Presbyterian in January 2012.  This is a non-surgical option for valve replacement f........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:08:39 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[CBS and New-York Presbyterian Team Up to Launch CBS Cares Colonoscopy Sweepstakes Featuring Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[In an effort to raise awareness for colon cancer, CBS is pairing up with New York Presbyterian Hospital to help save lives.  Their focus will be on early screening and prevenative measures and to make people aware of colon cancer.  This will be the second CBS Cares Colonoscopy Sweepstakes.  This is ........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:52:09 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Girl Scout Troop Donates Gifts To Saint Clare's Pediatric Department]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Thanks to a small toy drive, Girl Scout Troop 2231 was able to donate the gifts to Saint Clare's Pediatric Department.  Pediatric nurses accepted the gifts as well as showed the girls of the troop on a short tour around the pediatric wing of the medical center.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:25:46 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Top Japanese scientist leaving government post to move to University of the Chicago Medical Center]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Secretary General Yusuke Nakamura, MD, PhD works in Japan at the government's Office of Medical Innovation and is also a professor at the University of Tokyo teaching molecular medicine.  He is expected to join the University of Chicago in April 2012.  The university went and actively recruited Naka........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:58:06 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[St. Clair Hospital Expanding it's Cancer Center]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[St. Clair Hospital in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania is expanding it's Cancer Center by 25 percent.  The hospital broke ground this weekend on the expansion project that will expand the current building that is currently 8,000 square feet to an additional 1,885 square feet.  The total expansion is expect........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:46:22 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[University of Pittsburgh Medical Center returns tax refunds in Monroeville]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Last week, UPMC made a surprising move that shocked the local Gateway School District.  The medical center announced that they would not cash the check made for $371,297 that was for property taxes.  It was a move that was unheard of because it was giving back to the community.  UMPC was entitled to........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:17:59 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Mesa's Banner Heart Hospital to open women's heart center in Febuary]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[The number one killer of women is heart disease.  To help combat this, Carole Peterson works to combat this by raising money as well as awareness for women.  She started a golf tourntamnet called "Golf is Where The Heart Is", which has raised $63,000 helping to open Banner's new hospital.  This new ........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:04:27 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Move-in day goes smoothly at Santa Monica Hospital]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[One hundred and twenty five patients were transported from the previous medical center to the brand new UCLA Medical Center Santa Monica as well as the previously used Merle Norman Pavillion.  The patients were both adult and pediatric.  Doctors and nurses as well as other healthcare providers worke........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:52:42 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Atlanic Health System Online Video Segments Seek to Demystify Pallative Care for Patients and Families]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Among other states, New Jersey is attempting to persue new legislation to help patients and families to have more access to pallative care.  They would have more questions than answers normally, however with the new help of digital advances made by the Atlantic Health System, patients and families c........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:28:36 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Yale School of Nursing to offer Doctor of Nursing Practice Degree]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Beginning in the fall of 2012, Yale will begin to offer a Doctor of Nursing Practice Degree.  This program is designed for nurses who wish to continue their career and who are in the middle part of their careers.  This program will build on skills of those nurses who have already completed their Mas........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:11:16 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Diabetes in pregnancy raises ADHD risk in kids]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Women who develop gestational diabetes during their pregnancies run the risk of having their children develop ADHD.  According to a new study, this can be first seen by  the age of four years old.  It puts children at twice the risk for ADHD, rather than children who have mothers who do not develop ........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 17:12:23 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Haitian Medical Students Spend Summer at Dartmouth and Darthmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Recently, two medical students from the small Carribean island of Haiti came to the United States for the summer to participate in classes at Dartmouth and shadow OBGYN and ER doctors at DHMC.  Since Haiti experianced their 7.0 earthquake in January, 2010, these are the sixth and seventh students to........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:50:04 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Many Programs Under Health Reform Law Remain Unfunded]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Out of the 18 public health programs established under the federal health reform law, only 10 have received funding.  Other programs under the reform law could also loose their funding.  Furthermore, the Prevention and Public Health Fund faces elimination by members of Congress.  Republicans have sa........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 02:24:57 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[St. Luke's Mid America Heart Institute conducts the 500th Heart Transplant]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[The only program of it's kind in the region of Kansas City. Luke's Mid America Heart Institute just recorded it's 500th transplant.  It is one of the 27 hospitals nationwide to ever record a 500th transplant.  This is  brand new milestone for the hospital, who has been doing transplants for 26 years........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 01:07:10 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[City of Palo Alto, California gives green light to rebuild, expand Stanford Hospitals]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[The Palo Alto city council recently approved to certify the Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR), allow land use and struck up a deal with Stanford Hospitals and Clinics, Stanford University and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and agreed on 175 million dollars in benefits for their community ........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:13:08 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Travel Nursing Jobs on the Rise]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[Travel Nursing jobs are on the rise in 2011.  First quarter of 2011 represented an increase of 26% in the number of travel nursing job opportunities with respect to the same quarter in 2010.  Travel nursing job opportunities in the second quarter of 2011 are on pace for a 31% increase with respect t........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:58:45 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Elmhurst Memorial Hospital Grand (in Chicago) Opening]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[The Elmhurst Memorial Hospital - Elmhurst Illinois - will open on June 25, 2011.  Elmhurst Memorial Hospital will feature 259 private inpatient suites in an aesthetically pleasing, easy-to-navigate environment.  Built from the ground up to incorporate the latest trends in healthcare design, Elmhurst........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 15:47:20 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[School of Nursing Addition Begins to Take Shape at the University of Connecticut]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[After breaking ground in April, construction is well underway for the new 15,800 square foot Widmer Wing that will soon become the new school of nursing for the University of Connecticut.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 14:21:40 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[National League for Nursing Receives Grant from W. K. Kellogg Foundation]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[The W. K. Kellogg Foundation has awarded the National League for Nursing (NLN) a prestigious $150,000 grant to pilot Project Success.  The objective of Project Success is to increase the number of African-Americans in the nursing workforce in proportion to the demographic representation of blacks in........click to read more]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 14:06:28 GMT</pubDate>
<title ><![CDATA[Advanced Certification for Palliative Care Programs]]></title>
<description ><![CDATA[The Joint Commission's new Advanced Certification for Palliative Programs will be available beginning September 1, 2011.  This Program is designed to recognize hospital inpatient programs that demonstrate exceptional patient and family centered care in order to optimize the quality of life for patie........click to read more]]></description>
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