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MNA Daily NewsScan, August 14, 2012: Hospitals FAIL; Labor rallies; Accretive pops up in MO.

HEALTH CARE

Medicare to Penalize 2200 Hospitals for Excess Readmissions More than 2,000 hospitals — including some nationally recognized ones — will be penalized by the government starting in October because many of their patients are readmitted soon after discharge.
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August 14, 2012

MNA Daily NewsScan, August 13, 2012: Nurses Help Cut Mortality Rates in Half

LABOR NEWS

NNU in the News: Health care is among the few sectors of the national economy where unionization is actually increasing.
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August 13, 2012

MNA Daily NewsScan, August 10, 2012: Is your work schedule making you unhealthy?

NOTES ON NURSING

Work Schedules Contribute to Nurses’ Health Issues “Adverse work schedules may be an overriding work-related factor for nurse obesity,” the researchers wrote.
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August 10, 2012

MNA Daily NewsScan, August 9, 2012: Retail health care; AA Pilots Reject Offer

HEALTH CARE

Doctor is In; Retail is Out The glut of empty strip malls and big-box stores in the wake of the go-go years has made leases so affordable that nearly every major hospital system in the state and many private health care organizations have jumped in.
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August 9, 2012

MNA Daily NewsScan, August 8, 2012 – Women in the Boardroom; Another Verizon Strike Looming?

LABOR NEWS

Women Know Best: Companies with women on their boards performed better in challenging markets than those with all-male boards in a study suggesting that mixing genders may temper risky investment moves and increase return on equity.
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August 8, 2012

MNA Daily NewsScan, August 7, 2012: How is that corporate health care working for you?

HEALTH CARE

Big Med Blog note: This long piece published in the New Yorker, is written by the same author who uncovered the discrepancies in health cre spending, most notably in McAllen, TX.
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August 7, 2012

MNA RN Lil Ortendahl: “Some drink, some screw around … I do politics.”

Congrats to MNA RN Lil Ortendahl, who was honored at the Minnesota DFL’s recent Humphrey-Mondale dinner. Lil was given the Hubert H Humphrey award for citizen political activism.
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August 6, 2012

MNA Daily NewsScan, August 5, 2012: Debt Collection Lessons From Fairview, Republicans Likely to Oppose State Workers’ Contracts

LABOR NEWS

Massachusetts RNs win fight as state leaders agree to ban on mandatory OT.

Public employee contracts for Minnesota state workers are likely to face opposition in the Republican-controlled Legislature.
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August 6, 2012

MNA Daily NewsScan, August 3, 2012: Driving Great Patient Experience, Where are the Women CEOs in Health Care?

LABOR NEWS

The New York Times looks at D-Day for the U.S. Post Office.

HEALTH CARE

Hospital Impact Blog: Here’s how hospitals can drive great patient experience.
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August 3, 2012

MNA Daily NewsScan, August 2, 2012: Why a Robin Hood Tax; ICU Telemedicine

LABOR NEWS

Why Nurses Are Fighting for the Robin Hood Tax MNA Executive Director writes about a tax for the people, not on the people.
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August 2, 2012

MNA Daily NewsScan, August 1, 2012 – 35W Bridge Collapse Remembered

HEALTH CARE

The 35W Bridge Collapse:

The Star Tribune looks back five years later at the events of August 1, 2007.

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August 1, 2012

MNA Daily NewsScan, July 31, 2012: Accretive Banned; Nurse Burnout = More Patient Infections

Health Care

Nurses Made the Difference: You spoke up and helped deliver justice to patients.
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July 31, 2012