Nursing job vacancy in Honolulu

There are quite a few reputed nursing homes in Honolulu providing extensive nursing services to patients. Presences of these firms have made it easier for the job seekers to search for quality nursing jobs in Honolulu. Various types of nursing services are offered by these firms that include 24 hour on call availability, emotional and [...]

Cancer Survivors Break Ground on Proton Therapy Center

Cancer survivors joined Central DuPage Hospital, Radiation Oncology Consultants and ProCure Treatment Centers to break ground on construction of the new Proton Therapy Center of Central DuPage Hospital, a ProCure Center. When it opens in early 2011, the center will be one of only a handful of centers in the nation to offer proton therapy, [...]

Haven Hospice Announces Leadership Transition

Haven Hospice, a leading not-for-profit hospice and palliative care organization that serves patients and families across 18 north Florida counties, announced a leadership restructuring today, including the appointment of a President and five new Vice Presidents.
Tim Bowen, who previously served as Haven Hospice’s Executive Director, has been named the organization’s President, effective immediately. Bowen will [...]

AllscriptsMisys to Drive Healthcare Transformation

Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions Inc. (AllscriptsMisys) today begins its first day as a combined company with an ambitious plan to connect healthcare in order to improve quality, reduce errors and lower costs for the American healthcare system. Formed by the merger of a subsidiary of Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. and Misys Healthcare Systems, LLC, the newly [...]

Dealing with loss

Sixteen-year-old Francesca Mirenda of Altoona does not have many memories of her father, Rob, who died of skin cancer when he was 31 and she was just 5.
Although her fondest memories are of playing basketball with her dad, she also remembers sadder times – feeding her dad ice cream at the hospital and telling her [...]

Infohrm Releases New Case Study on Greater Baltimore Medical Center’s Workforce Planning Initiative

Infohrm, the global leader in workforce planning, reporting and analytics solutions, today released a case study highlighting the success of the Greater Baltimore Medical Center (GBMC) in implementing a new workforce planning process that will save the organization over $4 million in staffing costs.
As with many healthcare providers, GBMC, a 335-bed community hospital with 3,200 [...]

The cost, choices of health care in final months

Health care in the last months of a person’s life is expensive. What kind of care do people want? What are the costs? Is more always better?
What do we want? A Tompkins County survey in 2000 found that most people (74 percent of the 688 respondents) wanted to die at home; a strong second choice [...]

The cost, choices of health care in final months

Health care in the last months of a person’s life is expensive. What kind of care do people want? What are the costs? Is more always better?
What do we want? A Tompkins County survey in 2000 found that most people (74 percent of the 688 respondents) wanted to die at home; a strong second choice [...]

St. Francis Healthcare is pumping $3 million into its two facilities

The St. Francis Healthcare System is upgrading its two hospice facilities in a $3 million modernization program and expanding services to terminally ill patients in their homes.
The renovations include installation of a LodgeNetRx Interactive Patient Television system — first in the nation for a health care facility.
“Many may be familiar with the LodgeNet system when [...]

Nursing is a blend of science and technology with the art of caring

. Every day on the job nurses use the science they learned in nursing school. And, when employed, they take continuing education courses on a regular basis to keep up with the latest in the medical and nursing sciences. Nurses work closely with doctors and other health care professionals, and serve as the advocates for [...]