Article: Nation's Infectious Disease Experts Issue Comprehensive Report Stressing the Need to Improve Dangerously Low Influenza Vaccination Rates Among Health Care Workers; National Foundation for Infectious Diseases' Reports to Help Health Care Institutions Maximize Influenza Immunization.

Article: HCW protection gets a piece of fed spending.(health ...
Hospital Employee Health;  May 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... for respiratory PPE research Health care workers may be among those who benefit ... equipment (PPE) that protect health care workers. NIOSH declined to discuss ... protection needs in health care. Health care workers need respirators that are more ...

Article: Infection Control Experts Launch New Initiative to Address ...
PR Newswire;  April 14, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... influenza immunization rates among health care workers. APIC is a non-profit organization ... Influenza immunization rates among health care workers remain unacceptably low, only ... Prevention (CDC) that all health care workers receive an annual vaccination ...

Article: Direct-care shortage tied to lack of health benefits.(RESOURCES: ...
New Hampshire Business Review;  October 26, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... by the Alzheimer's Association and the PHI Health Care for Health Care Workers initiative. Six panelists representing various ... national campaign manager for the Health Care for Health Care Workers campaign, the situation is "indeed a crisis ...

Article: Joint Commission Resources Challenges Hospitals to Increase Flu ...
PR Newswire;  August 26, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... the Name of Patient Safety, Health Care Workers are Encouraged to Help Protect ... flu vaccination rates among health care workers. According to the Centers ... only 42 percent of surveyed health care workers received a flu vaccination ...

Article: New Study: Health Care Out of Reach for Most of ...
Los Angeles Sentinel;  March 15, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... Out of Reach for Most of County's Caregivers; 72,000 Home Care Workers Launch Campaign for Health Care Insurance Coverage Home care workers face increasing barriers to health care access as nearly half of Los Angeles County's 72,000 caregivers ...

Article: How health care workers handle substance ...
AIDS Alert;  June 1, 1989 ;     700+ words ...How health care workers handle substance abuse in AIDS ... health care professionals. If health care workers have considerable fear, discomfort ... about substance abusers. Once health care workers have examined their own attitudes ...

Transcript: AARP ENDORSES SENATOR COLLINS LEGISLATION TO HELP ADDRESS ...
Capitol Hill Press Releases;  April 15, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Critical Shortage Of Health Care Workers For Older Americans ... attract and retain trained health care professionals and direct-care workers by providing them with ... recruit, train, and keep health care workers who are dedicated to ...