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Friday, February 9, 2007

Study: Living wage jobs tough to nab in Northwest (Hospital jobs)

HELENA, Mont. -- The Pacific Northwest is short of jobs that pay enough to live on, a study by a coalition of activist groups says.
At least six people have been injured after Ekurhuleni metro police opened fire on 300 Tembisa waste removal contractors demanding permanent jobs.
CHEBOYGAN - Cheboygan Memorial Hospital has joined a coalition of Northern Michigan health-care facilities seeking state approval to construct a 60-bed, $22 million long-term acute care hospital in Gaylord.
Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau opened its new three-story wing to the public Tuesday. The new wing is topped by a heliport. Hospital officials say the new section adds 55,000 square feet to the original 110,000 square foot structure.
Hospitals in Leicester are to cut up to 200 beds and 900 staff to save 90m over the next two years, say bosses.
NANTUCKET A Coast Guard seaman suffered a shoulder injury and another suffered an ankle injury last night while rescuing three crewmen on a disabled, New Bedford-based fishing vessel in danger of sinking about 50 miles southeast of Nantucket, authorities said. The seamen aboard a cutter based in Kittery, Maine, were attempting to pass a towline to the 74-foot Creole Belle. ...
In a bold initiative that could alter the way many city and suburban children receive care, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta will announce today plans for a new $35 million building at the Hughes Spalding children's hospital in downtown Atlanta. Hughes Spalding, long outdated and poorly equipped, would become Atlanta's only major specialty center for treating pediatric asthma and sickle cell ...
THORSBY, Alabama (AP) -- A freight train struck a van at a rural Alabama crossing early Thursday, killing four Mexican men on their way to work and injuring four others, authorities said.
Grantley Adams fears he will lose his job and have to relocate if Prince George's Hospital Center closes. Adams, a psychiatric nurse and member of the hospital's health care worker union, also fears for his patients. Many of them have come to the hospital after another hospital closed, he said.
MARSHFIELD -- Isabel Louise (Daniels) Comerford, an executive assistant at a bank who also worked as a substitute teacher, died Jan. 30 at South Shore Hospital in Weymouth. She was 80.

Saturday, February 10, 2007

Hospital jobs - Bill Aims to Ease Nursing Shortage: But Some Doubt It Would Resolve Crisis

By Scott Wuerz, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill. Feb. 7---- U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is touting a bill he has co-sponsored as a cure to the nation's nursing shortage.
UK HealthCare patients can expect more efficient care in the years to come, thanks to ongoing construction on UK's Chandler Medical Center. Last week, officials presented plans for construction on the Wethington Building on South Limestone Street, which will include 192 additional patient beds on two extra floors in each of the hospital's two planned bed towers, the Kernel reported.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is touting a bill he has co-sponsored as a cure to the nation's nursing shortage.
Hospital workers are stunned after learning their jobs could be in danger if a controversial privately-run health centre takes cash away from the NHS. (29/01/2007 09:06:21)