Agreement Signed For BMC To Open North Adams ER

Just one month after North Adams Regional Hospital closed, a crew is on its way to prepare for the restoration of emergency services.

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MCLA walk-in clinic opens to the public

Five weeks after North Adams Regional Hospital closed, shutting down access to emergency care in Northern Berkshire, Berkshire Medical Center and MCLA have opened a walk-in care clinic.

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Sick children's carer retires after 25 years of support

The grandmother-of-four has dedicated herself to looking after ill children, both at the John Radcliffe Hospital and the Oxford Children's Hospital.

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Philippines still on MERS alert

Local authorities are still validating reports three more overseas Filipino workers in the Middle East had contracted the dreaded Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus .

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Platinum wedding Brandon couple were whisked off in regal style for their honeymoon

... Division based in Secunderabad when he met the then Kay Carton, a nurse with the Queen Alexandra Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS), when she visited the Officers' Club at Secunderabad. She joked Mr Christmas was considered a "catch" among ...

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Black physicians combat health care disparities

Members of the National Medical Association , the nation's largest organization of African-American physicians, have developed and refined an aggressive action plan to help reduce the health disparities that plague the African-American community and result in an unnecessary loss of life and an annual cost to the U.S. economy of billions of dollars.

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NC report tackles prescription drug abuse

... state health officials and occupational licensing boards like the North Carolina Medical Board and N.C. Board of Nursing to develop them for opioids. Legislators also should require these and other boards to require licensees who prescribe ...

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Hometown Pasco for May 2

... Shirley Cherry, associate professor, mathematics, East Campus in Dade City; Patricia Garcia, assistant professor of nursing, North Campus in Brooksville, and Burt Harres, Ph.D., vice president of instruction/provost, West Campus in New Port Richey.

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Health Advocatea , Inc. Honors Its Nurses During National Nurses Week

... Meeting, Pennsylvania, headquarters, when employees will come together to show appreciation for the Health Advocate nursing team. "Our nurses play a vital role at Health Advocate as they provide valuable support for our members and their families ...

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Gerard Bocquee Explores the Ill-Lighted Principle of Homeopathy

... in Homeopathy at the University of Technology and the Ingau Hospital in Papua and New Guinea, public lecture to the nursing staff at the Wesley Hospital, Brisbane and at the Brisbane College of Traditional Acupuncture. He is founder and life member ...

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5-Year-Old Plymouth Girl Fights Battle of Lifetime, Beats Malignant Brain Tumor

Their 5-year-old little girl fought the battle of a lifetime - and won. She had a malignant brain tumor, but a Plymouth family turned the despair of that diagnosis into hope.

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Ivy League whiz kid selects Yale

That was the selection made Wednesday by Kwasi Enin, the New York high school student accepted by the eight Ivy League schools -- Harvard, Yale, Brown, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Princeton and Cornell.

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Lives Lived: Thelma Jean Fast, 88

... life. In 1949, at the age of 24, she graduated in a class of nine from the Winnipeg Children's Hospital School of Nursing. In her first nursing job, at what was then the Brandon Mental Hospital, she met a dashing medical student, Bernie Fast. She ...

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AUPE deal first step to mending labour relations, but more needs to be done: critics

With a tentative deal reached with civil servants and agreements with teachers and doctors lasting through the next election, the Alberta government may have achieved relative labour peace for now, but critics say more has to be done to repair broken relationships.

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Why Teen Dad Must Fight Adoption Agency for His Child

Hundreds of you have commented on our story of a teen dad fighting for his child.

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The validation of a questionnaire to assess barriers to enteral...

A growing body of literature supports the need to identify and address barriers to knowledge use as a strategy to improve care delivery.

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Summa eliminates hospital president post

... hospitals and look forward to sharing additional information in the near future," Strauss said. Kathy Jobe, chief nursing officer for Barberton and Wadsworth-Rittman hospitals, will serve as site administrator until the new system role is filled. He ...

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Cancer survivors often plagued by intense fear that they've 'got one foot in the grave'

... foot here and they don't know how to move forward." The six-week program developed by Prof. Lebel, McGill University nursing professor Christine Maheu and colleagues in Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto is about to be evaluated in a larger clinical trial ...

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