HealthMarkets’ Subsidiary Introduces New Suite of Dental Insurance Products for Individuals of All Ages

HealthMarkets, Inc. (http://www.healthmarkets.com) announced today that its subsidiary, The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company, has introduced a new suite of dental insurance products for individuals of all ages in 26 states.
HealthMarkets, through its insurance subsidiaries, is a provider of health insurance products for the self-employed, individuals and families and small businesses.
“Good dental health is [...]

Nursing shortage make hospital improve working condition

Nurse Jennifer Dimmick helped her 71-year-old patient, George Mulligan, struggle from a chair to his feet for his daily walk around the corridor outside his hospital room.
In the days after Mulligan’s aortic valve replacement surgery, Dimmick was preparing him to care for himself after his discharge, showing him ways to lift himself while protecting his [...]

Apieron, Inc. Announces Appointment of Holly McGarraugh as President and Chief Executive Officer

Apieron, Inc. (www.apieron.com) announced today that its Board of Directors has appointed Holly McGarraugh as president and CEO of the company, effective immediately. Ms. McGarraugh replaces Rich Lotti, who resigned to pursue other business interests.
“We chose Holly for the CEO position because of her strong commercialization experience,” said Wende Hutton, Apieron Board member and partner [...]

Kindred Nursing Centers to be awarded prestigious award

Kindred Healthcare Inc. has announced that 50 of its nursing centers have been named recipients of the 2008 American Health Care Association Step I Quality Award for demonstrating a strong commitment to quality improvement.
Of the 50 Kindred Nursing Centers to be awarded this prestigious award, three of them were in Connecticut: Kindred Crossings Healthcare West [...]

Genesis is a leading healthcare provider with more than 200 skilled nursing centers

Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc. (NYSE:OHI) today announced that it completed the operational transfer of 13 skilled nursing facilities to affiliates of Formation Capital (“Formation”), in accordance with the terms of the Master Transaction Agreement dated August 6, 2008 and previously disclosed by the Company on August 7, 2008. The facilities were formerly leased to Haven [...]

A nurse stealing thousands of dollars from patients.

A nurse in a Southington assisted-living facility has been sentenced to a year in prison for stealing thousands of dollars from patients.
According to court documents, 43-year-old Catherine Flannery of West Hartford has a gambling problem and stole nearly $50,000 in Social Security payments from patients.
Flannery pleaded no contest in Bristol Superior Court to one count [...]

Nurse in Southington to serve 1 year for theft from patients

A nurse in a Southington assisted-living facility has been sentenced to a year in prison for stealing thousands of dollars from patients.
According to court documents, 43-year-old Catherine Flannery of West Hartford has a gambling problem and stole nearly $50,000 in Social Security payments from patients.
Flannery pleaded no contest in Bristol Superior Court to one count [...]

The surgery manager software maintains workflow data so doctors can focus on the patient.

GE Healthcare announced today that the company will install its Centricity® Perioperative Manger and Anesthesia products in hospitals and clinics affiliated with Connecticut-based Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH), and the two organizations will team to develop new enhancements to GE’s perioperative products.
GE’s Centricity Perioperative’s clinical information system integrates data across the surgical process, from the [...]

Be a nurse in strange land

On a lazy October afternoon, the air crisp with autumn, Ler Bweh, a 25-year-old Karen refugee from Burma, lay on his stomach in his apartment, assembling a map-of-the-world puzzle. Slight and almost ethereal, with moist caramel skin and a diffident demeanor, Ler Bweh had been a geography teacher in the Mae La refugee camp on [...]

Moments like these is what keeps a dozen or so locals volunteering tirelessly to help out Waterbury’s Karen refugees

Waterbury and the muslin gray sky has yielded to a pale, hopeful blue. It has been hot this week, which, coupled with a cottony humidity, has lured apartment dwellers outdoors, where they sit on cement stoops, nursing fussy infants and slurping down plastic cups of cool ice water. At the corner of Central Avenue and [...]