Nurses' union touts growth, national voice on health care

Oakland Tribune;  September 10, 2007 ;     416 words ......lobbying for labor on national health care policy issues. Maybe that's why...time, it succeeded in getting nurse-to-patient ratios, whistleblower protections and...his executive order weakening nurse-to-patient ratios, and in 2005, the union was ...

Poor people, poor places and access to health care in the United...

Social Forces;  September 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......topping 44 million, and the cost of health care continuing to rise (Rhoades 2005), it...insurance coverage and the affordability of health care. Yet disparities in income and insurance...fully explain differential access to health care in the United States. In fact, various...

100 National Groups Call for Health Care Summit

Targeted News Service;  November 19, 2008 ;     555 words ......urging him to include meaningful health care reform as one of his first domestic...priorities and to convene a national health care summit. The signatory organizations...economy will require "addressing health care." It points out that "we cannot...

Union pushes health care.

Las Vegas Review-Journal (Las Vegas, NV);  June 28, 2007 ;     700+ words ......local hospital operator over nurse-to-patient ratios and retirement benefits...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 ...

HHS ISSUES SECOND REPORT ON PERSONALIZED HEALTH CARE

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 14, 2008 ;     372 words ......report from his Initiative on Personalized Health Care, examining the potential for new findings...improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of health care. The report, "Personalized Health Care: Pioneers, Partnerships, Progress," includes...

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

The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  May 7, 2008 ;     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...the state committee that oversees health care financing gave the bill a favorable...they could lead to layoffs of other ...

BAUCUS: HEALTH CARE REFORM IS KEY TO STRENGTHENING ECONOMY

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 19, 2008 ;     474 words ......release: One week after announcing his health care reform plan, Montana's senior U.S. Senator...Committee hearing focusing on how reforming health care and strengthening the country's economy...Committee and is leading the charge on health care reform. "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 ;     700+ words ......life? Two words: health care. There are other...job security than health care. That's mostly because...requiring some kind of health care along the way. And...in many areas of health care, from physician...specialties, the health care industry ...

REP. KAGEN: LOWERING HEALTH CARE COSTS WILL HELP AUTO MANUFACTURERS SAVE...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 19, 2008 ;     401 words ......D. said action to solve the nation's health care crisis will go a long way toward helping...spends more than $1,500 per vehicle on health care while Toyota spends just over $300...the car making business, they are a health care company," said Kagen. "Ford and GM have...

SENS. SALAZAR, DASCHLE TO SPEAK AT COLORADO HEALTH CARE SUMMIT

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 19, 2008 ;     358 words ......Friday, December 5, 2008, leaders in the health care reform debate from across Colorado and across...Denver to take part in the 2008 Colorado Health Care Summit. The 2008 Colorado Health Care Summit will serve as the culminating event...

Staffing our health care.(Commentary)(Forum)

The Washington Times;  November 7, 1999 ;     700+ words ......problem in the health care industry...holding down health care costs. However...capacity for health care that is sought...changes in our health care delivery over...change in the health care delivery system...dollar annual health care ...

Leavitt Sees Value In Personalized Health Care

Targeted News Service;  November 14, 2008 ;     178 words ......release: Any plan to reform the U.S. health care system should consider the potential for personalized health care to improve care and increase value...from HHS' Initiative on Personalized Health Care. The initiative envisions medical...

SEN. SNOWE CALLS FOR ACTION TO ACHIEVE GREATER HEALTH CARE VALUE

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 19, 2008 ;     333 words ......R-Maine) voiced concern that escalating health care costs and poor quality will jeopardize...examined the economic perspective of health care reform, Senator Snowe addressed the...can befall individuals who lose their health care coverage and encounter serious illness...

The good news and the bad news. (Editorial).(California health care)(Brief...

Nursing Diagnosis;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......weeks. Governor Gray Davis has mandated a nurse-to-patient ratio of 1:5. This ratio will be implemented...reasonable standard of care. The problems facing health care in California and elsewhere are not mandated nurse-to-patient ratios but rather the fundamental ...

ANA Gives Statement At Health Care Reform Hearings

Targeted News Service;  November 19, 2008 ;     504 words ......Wednesday, November 19th on the issue of health care reform. ANA submitted a statement at the Senate Finance Committee hearing on Health Care Reform: An Economic Perspective emphasizing...current "sick care" system into a true "health care" system. "RNs are the backbone of ...