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December 15, 2012
Humility of Mary Health Partners to renovate its three hospital campuses
Humility of Mary Health Partners of Youngstown, Ohio, is embarked on a $203 million renovation project that administrators say will better align the services offered at the system's three northeast Ohio campuses with the needs of communities in that region.
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December 15, 2012
Making Christmas Bright
See how others in the ministry are celebrating the season.
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December 15, 2012
Christmas: A time for remembering the ones we love and serve
During the Christmas season, we share our abundance with family, friends and community. We gather together to celebrate a New Year full of hope and possibility.
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December 15, 2012
Parents add their observations of sick newborns to electronic medical records
When their twins were born three months prematurely at Bon Secours St. Mary's Hospital in Richmond, Va., Marion Stanley and his fiancée, Shalonda Parker, did not know what to expect.
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December 15, 2012
St. Joseph is an epicenter for care of fungal meningitis patients
When doctors and administrators at St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor in Ypsilanti, Mich., began seeing cases of fungal meningitis in early October, they were ready with a disaster preparedness plan.
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December 15, 2012
ArchCare receives vulnerable group stranded by Sandy
When Superstorm Sandy hit the New York-New Jersey area with rain and hurricane-force winds in late October, Scott La Rue, president and chief executive of ArchCare, the continuing care community of the Archdiocese of New York, witnessed many difficult situations, even among his own employees whose homes were flooded or destroyed.
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December 15, 2012
Nurse teaches peers to practice empathy with personal boundaries
The last assault was no more brutal than the others. As a mental health nurse, Thomas Browning had been attacked by patients before. This time, however, Browning had had enough.
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December 01, 2012
Keeping Up
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December 01, 2012
Hospital staff help develop, spread new protocols for improved care
Changing routines is hard, and that can be particularly true for clinicians who are asked to follow new protocols they did not create themselves.
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December 01, 2012
PeaceHealth lab patents test that detects drug use and abuse
A doctor prescribes an opioid medication for chronic pain but suspects the patient is engaged in some kind of drug abuse or misuse. A standard urine test comes back negative. Is the patient not taking the medication, or is the test simply unable to identify it?