MNA Daily NewsScan, August 28, 2012: DeMoro tops; RN staffing & preventable deaths; Collectiving cargaining on MI ballot
HEALTH CARE
National Nurses United’s RoseAnn DeMoro Named to Top 100 Most Influential Health Care List for 11th Straight Year DeMoro, who is number 36 on the list of 100, is one of only eight people to be named to the list for each of the 11 years it has been compiled. She is also one of only two women to be named every year on a list that is dominated by figures in government and corporate healthcare institutions.
NOTES ON NURSING
Unsafe Nurse-to-Patient Staffing Ratios are a Key Cause of 98,000 Preventable Deaths Each Year Registered nurses form the backbone of this system, providing triage and treatment.
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MNA at the Minnesota State Fair – Real Stories. Real Conversations. Real Impact.
I just wanted to jot a note about my recent experience at the Minnesota State Fair to let members and staff hear of the experience.
The Minnesota State Fair is indeed the “Great Minnesota Get together.” Fairgoers from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Colorado and even Louisiana stopped to visit with MNA Nurses, as they always do, and all communicated their thanks for what we do every day. They could not say enough about Nursing’s dedication to them and their families!
One mother wanted us to know it was the Nurses at Minneapolis Children’s Hospital who stood at her daughter’s bedside 24/7 when she received medical care for her Leukemia.
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MNA Daily NewsScan, August 27, 2012 – MNA RNs Help Recovering Patient See Son’s West Coast Wedding
NOTES ON NURSING
Worth Watching: MNA RNs help recovering patient see his son’s West Coast wedding.
HEALTH CARE
Worth Reading: The Center For Public Integrity has a series out on how politicians are manipulating the facts about medicare during election season.
Moody’s Investors Service has declared that not-for-profit hospitals are financially stable for now, but the fiscal realities of the Affordable Care Act could darken that picture in the future.
LABOR
Right-to-work: “They want to run us to death.”
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MNA Daily NewsScan, August 24, 2012 – Fairview Wants to Spend $53m … on Buildings; Boston RNs Ponder Strike Vote; A Night ER Staff Will Never Forget
HEALTH CARE
Fairview Health Services wants to spend $53 million to … wait for it … make capital improvements.
From The New York Times: A Night the ER Staff in Aurora, Colorado will never forget.
LABOR
Hundreds of nurses in the Boston area will vote next week whether or not to authorize a strike.
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MNA Daily NewsScan, August 23, 2012 – State Fair Begins; Hospitals Sing Familiar Tune
HEALTH CARE
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: Hospitals are blaming health care reform and the economy for cutting back on staffing levels.
Underscoring hospitals’ interest in employee health, 84 percent of medical facilities in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut that responded to a new survey offer workers a wellness program or activity.
Study: Middle Class Suffered “Worst Decade in Modern History” as wages stagnated, share of income fell.
LABOR
If you’re headed to the State Fair, make sure you stop by the MNA booth to say hello!
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MNA Daily NewsScan, August 22, 2012 – Tragic Story Gets Worse; Hospitals’ Charity Care in Question
HEALTH CARE
Sad story gets more grief: Jennifer Gallagher, a nurse who cared for Aurora shooting victims at the University of Colorado Hospital last month, drowned on Aug. 6 while swimming in Iowa’s Lake Okoboji.
Montana’s hospitals generally provide a sizable amount of charity care and community benefits, but a study released by the state’s attorney general has questioned the values stated by some of the facilities, reported the Helena Independent Record.
What are the 10 health care jobs most impacted by the new Affordable Care Act? Find out!
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MNA Daily NewsScan, August 21, 2012: Med errors still high; Not enough profit, UnitedHealth turns back on 174,000 Wisconsonites
HEALTH CARE
Medical Errors Continue to Dog Health Care A new Wolters Kluwer Health Survey of 1,000 U.S. consumers revealed that nearly one third of Americans (30 percent) have experienced a medical mistake either firsthand or from a third-party. A majority (68 percent) believe that as the medical field continues to adopt new technologies, medical errors will decrease.
Time for Medicine to Take Its Own Pulse The truth is that for a large part of medical practice, we don’t know what works. But we pay for it anyway. Our annual per capita health care expenditure is now more than $8,000.
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MNA Daily NewsScan, August 20, 2012: Wells Fargo Behaving Badly?
HEALTH CARE
A former Wells Fargo & Co. mortgage consultant has accused the San Francisco-based bank of firing him in order to avoid paying for his daughter’s cancer treatment.
LABOR
Members of the California Nurses Association urged state lawmakers to set a minimum level of charity care for all nonprofit hospitals in exchange for their lucrative, tax-exempt status. CNA released a study Wednesday concluding that beyond what they delivered in charity care, California’s nonprofit hospitals in 2010 received more than $1.8 billion in government subsidies and benefits from their tax exemption.
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MNA Daily NewsScan, August 17, 2012:
HEALTH CARE
Callifornia Nurses: Faulty $45 million computer health care system endangering patients’ lives.
Not-for-profit healthcare institutions have been undergoing audits from outside entities at a significantly higher rate than their for-profit counterparts, according to a new study by the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA).
LABOR
Michigan Nurses: Collective Bargaining Keeps Our Patients Safe!
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