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March 01, 2014
Nine ministry members earn Magnet recognition in 2013
Nine ministry hospitals received recognition in 2013 from the American Nurses Credentialing Center, a subsidiary of the American Nurses Association, for providing high-quality patient care and excelling in nursing practice.
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March 01, 2014
Lingering scents connect babies and parents during separations
Newborns, including the sick babies in neonatal intensive care units, are soothed by the voices of their parents and the smell of their mothers.
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March 01, 2014
Washington state regulators to evaluate hospital affiliations based on service impact
The Washington State Department of Health has revised its certificate of need and licensing rules to allow for the department to have increased involvement in the strategic moves of health care providers in the state and to require increased transparency when it comes to disclosing hospital policies around reproductive health, the end of life, and other areas.
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March 01, 2014
Four-pronged approach preserves care access on San Juan Island
When PeaceHealth's Jim Barnhart thinks about what upwards of a dozen community leaders accomplished on rural San Juan Island, Wash., the often-quoted adage of anthropologist Margaret Mead comes to his mind: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
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March 01, 2014
Advocates press Kentucky legislature for indoor smoking bans
The U.S. Surgeon General's 2014 report, "The Health Consequences of Smoking," describes the epidemic of smoking-related diseases over the past 100 years as one of the nation's "greatest public health catastrophes" and bemoans the fact that 19 percent of adult Americans still smoke tobacco.
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March 01, 2014
Nurse practitioner takes on pivotal role at critical access hospital
The tucked-away northern Wisconsin town of Eagle River — population about 1,400 — draws visitors with its hundreds of miles of snowmobile trails and a towering ice castle that volunteers have constructed annually for decades by stacking blocks of ice cut from a nearby lake.
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March 01, 2014
CHRISTUS Muguerza clinics reach impoverished and medically underserved
When her toddler son was diagnosed with Kawasaki syndrome, a serious but treatable condition that causes inflammation in the arterial walls, Luz María Ruiz Aguilar sought help from a 24-hour medical clinic in a struggling neighborhood in Monterrey, Mexico.
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March 01, 2014
CHRISTUS moves forward with joint venture in Chile
The Irving, Texas-based system CHRISTUS Health, which already has a significant international presence in Mexico, has finalized its joint venture agreement with a Catholic university to manage and partially own a Chilean health system.
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February 15, 2014
Ascension Health's sale of Carondelet Health's Kansas City, Mo., hospitals is off
Ascension Health and HCA Midwest Health System have ended talks to sell Ascension Health's Carondelet Health Kansas City, Mo., area hospitals to HCA, saying in a Jan. 31 statement it had become clear the proposed deal was not going to get timely approval from the Federal Trade Commission.
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February 15, 2014
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