As tornadoes roared through central Georgia earlier this year, nursing home managers were faced with some daunting challenges. Power grids were knocked out, darkness was descending, and roads were strewn with debris causing long term care facilities to shelter-in-place.
These facilities turned to state and local agencies for support. Support agencies knew the locations of the [...]

Patrice I. Jones has been named vice president of Patient Care Services at DCH Regional Medical Center. As vice president, Jones is responsible for the hospital’s nursing staff, pharmacy, respiratory services and food and nutritional services. She replaces Eula Das, who has retired after holding the position since 1996.
Jones comes to DCH from UAB Hospital [...]

Half the residents of New Orleans were suffering from poor mental and physical health more than a year after their homes and community were devastated by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, according to research published in the September issue of the UK-based Journal of Clinical Nursing.
Researchers from Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, California, spoke [...]

SALARY RANGE: 77,796.00 - 122,920.00 USD per year
Salary will be determined by a Nurse Professional Standards Board.
OPEN PERIOD: Tuesday, August 19, 2008
to Wednesday, September 03, 2008
JOB SUMMARY:
Central Louisiana is a place where all of Louisiana comes together from culture to food to music. Rich in history and surrounded by the Kisatchie National Forest, bikers, hikers, [...]

She is young, vibrant and motivated. She is unforgettably humorous, with an infectious smile. Her smile is her trademark. Nobody who sees her can confuse her for somebody else.
She speaks with confidence, illustrating her points with gestures. When she starts applauding the parents who adopted her, The Clarkes (the proprietors of Internation Hospital Kampala), you [...]

Sixteen-year-old Tanya Simon is trying to keep spirits up inside the hall that has become home to families fleeing Hurricane Gustav.
She brought two hair weaves with her from New Orleans and is passing the time by styling them and trying to reach friends on her cell phone.
But she’s struggling even to keep her own [...]

The state health department has fined two local nursing homes after Medicare inspectors reported poor care, including one incident where a resident later died after choking during her evening meal.
Blossom South Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center, at 1175 Monroe Ave., and Blossom Health Care Center, at 989 Blossom Road, were each fined $2,000, the maximum [...]

Trinidad Nabarrete used to dream of visiting places and people all over the world.
She says she fulfilled this dream and more when she became a nurse, joined the Peace Corps and eventually became a volunteer for the Red Cross.
Nabarrete was born in Waipahu, Hawaii, where she went to a three-year nursing school. After receiving her [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]