What is this? The MNA Daily NewsScan rounds up the day’s biggest nursing, health care and organized labor stories. As news unfolds in real-time, we update the NewsScan with new links and info, so check back often!
Stories we’re scanning:
Health Care
- “Baby Prisons”: Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson’s offices shares disturbing new details regarding the ongoing investigation of Accretive Health and its debt collectors allegedly harassing patients and family members inside Twin Cities hospitals.
- Americans’ Health a “Mixed Bag”:New CDC Report notes we’re smoking less, but not exercising enough and still following unhealthy diets, leading to obesity.
Labor
- Robin Hood Tax Event Recap: Minnesota Nurses were among scores of activists in dozens of U.S. cities on Tuesday as part of a growing call for a Robin Hood Tax. Here’s some video from MNA’s event in downtown Minneapolis:
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