Hospitals (Page 23)

NOTES ON NURSING

Nurses, Docs Overestimate Care   The disconnect between the quality of care a panel of experts found in the records and the quality of care the nurses and doctors thought they had delivered doesn’t mean the patients were any worse off.  Instead, the researchers suggest it means the doctors and nurses may need to be more critical of their performances.

HEALTH CARE

Ascension’s Big Hospital Buy Likely to Face Anti-Trust Scrutiny   Ascension Health, the nation’s largest Catholic and nonprofit health system, operates about 80 U.S. hospitals with more than 17,000 patients, and reported nearly $20 billion in assets and about $16 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2011. 
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan, September 6, 2012: Overestimating care; more corporate mergers; orchestra bosses out of tune  »

LABOR

There is plenty of Union angst at Minnesota-based SuperValu, according to a recent Star Tribune story.

From The New York Times: Ohio Unions Battle Conservative “Super PACs” For Votes.

Also, The L.A. Times reports that teachers unions’ alliances with the Democratic Party are fraying.

HEALTH CARE

Parent engagement and daily care cut 20 percent of central-line infections according to a new study from Johns Hopkins.
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan, Sept. 5, 2012: “Union Angst” at SuperValu; Unions Do Battle with Conservative Super PACs  »