Despite a shortage of nurses locally and throughout the nation, Erie County Medical Center is reporting a banner year for recruitment.
The hospital said it attracted more recent nursing graduates as well as experienced nurses than the previous 12 years. Year-to-date, ECMC has hired 181 nursed, including 125 registered nurses (RN) and 56 licensed practical nurses [...]

After months of frustration and misdiagnoses — slipped disc, arthritis, depression, psychosomatic illness — the woman finally was freed from her debilitating backache. The cause of her pain?
Living in a cramped one-room apartment with her four children, the woman had been sleeping in a bathtub.
And who solved this medical mystery?
A nurse practitioner — someone who [...]