All across the country hospitals, educational institutions, local government, and various civic groups are recognizing that collectively working towards solutions to our nation’s heath-care crisis is a fundamental step in the right direction. A national nursing shortage is plaguing hospitals, nursing home facilities, and other heath centers causing current staff to be overworked and many [...]
Like many other states across the country Mississippi is experiencing a nursing shortage. According to the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an arm of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Mississippi health care providers will experience a 22 percent vacancy rate in nursing positions by the year 2020, requiring more than 18,000 [...]
Continuing with the methods perfected during the election campaign, the administration of US president-elect Barack Obama is using hi tech tools to stay in touch with public and interest group opinion on what should happen in the promised health reform. The groundwork for debating and shaping policy is mobilizing via postings on websites, internet correspondence, [...]
To help reduce diagnosis time for stroke, serious heart conditions and other life-threatening diseases, PinnacleHealth in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania will install the Aquilion® ONE dynamic volume CT system from Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. The Aquilion ONE, the world’s first dynamic volume CT system, can help doctors diagnose life-threatening conditions in mere minutes, rather than the [...]
Almost a year after Atrium Medical Center moved to its new hospital facility on Union Road, we sat down with Doug McNeill, president and CEO, to discuss how the year has been and the changes the center has faced.
Q: A year into Atrium, what would you have done differently?
A: If we could have done anything [...]
Name: Rebecca McClanahan
Education: Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Truman State University (1975); Master of Science in Nursing, with a Clinical Nurse Specialty in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing, MU (1982). Completed doctoral coursework (all but dissertation) toward a PhD in Nursing, University of Kansas.
Work Experience: State Representative, House District 2, elected in 2006; Serve on the [...]
In honor of breast cancer awareness month, Ford and Reader’s Digest have partnered together for the first time to create the “Beautiful Warrior” program to honor the real life Warriors who fight the disease. Reader’s Digest asked its readers to submit stories at http://www.readersdigest.com/warriors, about a Beautiful Warrior in their life. A “Beautiful Warrior” is [...]
West Houston is a 219-bed acute care hospital located on Richmond Avenue just east of Dairy Ashford. The campus includes the West Houston Doctors’ Center and the new Boulevard Medical Plaza housing physicians from a wide range of specialties. West Houston employs more than 900 people and has approximately 500 physicians on staff. We [...]
Lindsey McDermott, a nursing major at St. Anselm College, said she wasn’t paying much attention to what was happening in the economy until she went home to Norwood, Mass., for the Columbus Day break.
“Everywhere I went, people were talking about it,” she said.
Now that she has started paying attention, McDermott, a 20-year-old junior, is worried.
“I [...]
A Pro-Celebrity Pro-Am Tennis & Golf Tournament — Benefiting the Tim & Tom Gullikson Foundation auctions dozens of items and experiences to raise funds for care and support programs for brain-tumor patients and their families. Through the generosity of one of Swingtime’s sponsors, Allen Systems Group (ASG), Swingtime has been provided with two tickets to [...]
