Union pushes health care.

Las Vegas Review-Journal (Las Vegas, NV);  June 28, 2007 ;     787 words ......hospital operator over nurse-to-patient ratios and retirement benefits has...advocacy group designed to make health care the No. 1 issue in the 2008...International Union's Nevada for Health Care wants all candidates for...benefits. With the cost of health care ...

Health Care Is Hot Job of Coming Year, with Long-Term Job-Security...

Detroit Free Press (Detroit, Michigan) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  December 29, 2003 ;     787 words ......employed for the rest of your life? Two words: health care. There are other industries and jobs that...prospects for long-term job security than health care. That's mostly because more people are...ripe old ages and requiring some kind of health care along the way. And there's that ...

NURSES SEE DANGERS IN SHORT STAFFS MANY SUPPORT LEGISLATION TO SET PATIENT...

The Boston Globe;  June 22, 2003 ;   Rhonda Stewart, Globe Staff;   664 words ......support a bill to regulate nurse-to- patient ratios. The hearing was held the same day that...not just for hospitals but for all health care facilities. "Historically there were...chairman of the Joint Committee on Health Care, said the problem posed by understaffing...

Staffing our health care.(Commentary)(Forum)

The Washington Times;  November 7, 1999 ;     787 words ......problem in the health care industry - fewer...of holding down health care costs. However...class capacity for health care that is sought...changes in our health care delivery over...change in the health care delivery system...dollar annual health ...

Healthful choices; Consumers have new allies in the health care arena for...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  January 29, 2006 ;   Phelps, David;   641 words ...Byline: David Phelps; Staff Writer Choosing health care options more and more is going to feel...must weigh cost as well as quality from health care providers. As a result, insurers and some...data in an easily digestible manner. And health care providers contend the quality ...

Congressional leaders advocate for universal health care

New York Amsterdam News;  May 25, 2005 ;   Fortune, Shelley;   691 words ......would ensure the accessibility of quality health care to all. "We're in the middle of a health care crisis. There are people who are dying now because they're not getting the health care they need," said Jim Winkler, chairman...as a reason for the lack of a national health ...

California Franchise Owners See Rising Need for Home Health...

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  May 29, 1996 ;   Bryan, John;   787 words ......time when being a health care provider meant having...director of Interim Health Care in Bakersfield and...working on a degree in health-care management. And...at the direction health care was heading and...Interim not only has a health care division that ...

Nurses need improved patient ratios.(STATE AND TERRITORY NEWS: VIC)

Australian Nursing Journal;  November 1, 2007 ;     510 words ...Nurse to patient ratios are no longer keeping pace with...and 2004. Legally mandated nurse patient ratios were introduced in Victoria in...Brumby Government has proposed nurse patient ratios be discretionary by management...

Linking outcomes to nurses' roles in health care.

Nursing Economics;  March 1, 1998 ;   Irvine, Diane Sidani, Souraya Hall, Linda McGillis;   787 words ......policymakers, and regulators for accountability in health care spending have resulted in an emphasis on...outcomes as measures of system effectiveness. Health care professionals are being asked to assume...presented that identifies nurses' roles in health care and relates these roles ...

Health care proposals deserve support

The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  June 21, 2003 ;   Sandy Eaton, RN, Quincy;   251 words ......setting enforceable RN- to-patient ratios and a standard system to...second is the Massachusetts Health Care Trust Fund, S.686, the enactment...Legislature's Joint Committee on Health Care at the State House in Boston...the proposed Massachusetts Health Care Trust will ...

Nurses' union touts growth, national voice on health care

Oakland Tribune;  September 10, 2007 ;   Josh Richman;   416 words ......lobbying for labor on national health care policy issues. Maybe that's...stopped looking at our role as patient advocates solely at the bedside...Deborah Burger said Friday. "We're patient advocates for the entire society...issues of nursing practice and patient safety, Burger said. Over ...

New York Lawmakers Seek to Improve Health Care Staffing.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  March 11, 2003 ;     592 words ......with staffing issues at health care facilities appears to be...come at a time when the health care industry is bracing for...establish minimum nurse-to-patient ratios at hospitals. That idea has been a goal of health care worker unions for several...deal with the ...

Health care issues on menu for candidates

Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME;  September 26, 2008 ;   MEG HASKELL; OF THE NEWS STAFF;   781 words ......program, mandatory nurse-to-patient ratios and other indigestibles were...offsets added costs to the health care system. EMMC is waiting to...answer. "We have a major health care crisis nationwide," she said...significant overhaul of the health care system. ... It's not ...

Pembroke dad joins nurses' rally at State House ; Lawmakers urged to pass...

The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  May 7, 2008 ;   JOHN P. KELLY;   367 words ...health care BOSTON - No magic number of nurses...Department of Public Health to set nurse-to-patient ratios, would cut down on medical errors and...the state committee that oversees health care financing gave the bill a favorable...they could lead to layoffs of other health ...

Nurse to patient ratios keep nurses.(NATIONAL)

Australian Nursing Journal;  November 1, 2007 ;     341 words ...Nurse to patient ratios are critical to the retention of...for emergency nurses that nurse patient ratios aid in work satisfaction and prevent...amount of evidence that nurse to patient ratios make a difference, professor Clarke...