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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Readers say no to Medicaid (Nursing jobs) freeze

Rochester Business Journal March 23, 2007 Gov. Eliot Spitzers proposal to freeze Medicaid payments to hospitals and nursing homes at current levels faces strong opposition in the upstate region, this weeks RBJ Daily Report Snap Poll suggests.
Goodwin Gladney has a vision for the home health agency he recently purchased from Morehouse General Hospital. Gladney sees the agency's mission as being twofold, to provide the finest home health care service in northeast Louisiana and to generate more jobs to help the economy of Morehouse Parish.
SAN MARCOS, March 24 (UNION-TRIBUNE): For the first time, the city's business panel will honor people, projects and programs that stand out in improving the city's economic development and redevelopment efforts.
A labor dispute has 10 nurses and their attorney facing criminal charges.
Recently, a study was conducted about the psychological effects of breast implants by Cynthia Figueroa-Hass, a clinical assistant professor at UF's College of Nursing.
GREER -- The cottage-style nursing home to open May 14 at the Greenville Hospital Systems medical campus on South Buncombe Road needs about 65 more certified nursing assistants to train for new positions.
"We're hiring. Come on in," said Steve Percival. Percival, director of human resources at Washington Regional Medical System, and his counterparts at other hospitals have a tough job trying to keep their hospitals fully staffed with nurses.
By Angela Forest, Daily Press, Newport News, Va. Mar.