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October 01, 2014
Sr. Ettling helped empower the poor
Sr. Dorothy "Dot" Ettling, a leader and professor remembered for a legacy of promoting human dignity, died on Sept. 12 at age 74.
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October 01, 2014
Hospital Sisters system acquires Oconto Falls, Wis., hospital
Hospital Sisters Health System of Springfield, Ill., has acquired the Community Memorial Hospital critical access hospital in Oconto Falls, Wis., and has renamed it HSHS St. Clare Memorial Hospital.
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October 01, 2014
Keeping Up
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September 09, 2014
Keeping Up
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September 09, 2014
CDC seeks urgent response to Ebola epidemic
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called on Sept. 2 for a heightened and accelerated international response to combat the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.
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September 09, 2014
CHI forms Nebraska-Iowa network and names leaders
Alegent Creighton Health of Omaha, Neb., has formed the CHI Health network by combining with the other Nebraska hospitals and their affiliated networks within Catholic Health Initiatives.
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September 09, 2014
Saint Francis degerms smartphones, tablets
Katherine Stanton, a clinical informatics database analyst at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, Conn., places her cellphone into the ReadyDock device for disinfecting. The hospital has been piloting the device, which is designed to reduce health care-associated infections, since December and it recently ordered two more multi-station units to put the sanitizing technology into broader use.
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September 09, 2014
Never too early to learn the pleasures of a good book
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September 09, 2014
Children's Hospital of San Antonio cooks up anti-obesity campaign
Children's Hospital of San Antonio plans to fight obesity by teaching children and families how to prepare healthy meals and by demonstrating firsthand that the freshest ingredients come from the ground, not bags or boxes.
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September 08, 2014
Tech-savvy new nurses swap expertise with patient-care veterans
A hospital is a high-pressure workplace. Throw in a major new computer program, with its multiple screens and mysterious sequences, and the result can try the most composed veteran nurse.