NY Nursing News

State Budget Has New Programs to Combat Nurse Shortage The new state budget includes several items to help combat the nurse shortage in New York state. [4-2-2007]

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Named a Center of Excellence in Flu Research St. Jude Children's ResearchHospital has been designated one of six Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a part of the National Institutes of Health. [4-2-2007]

State Budget Has New Programs to Combat Nurse Shortage The new state budget includes several items to help combat the nurse shortage in New York state. [4-2-2007]

Statement of HANYS President Daniel Sisto on the Final   [4-2-2007]

LIJ Medical Center Opens 26-Bed Critical Care Unit In the first phase of a $27.5 million project, LIJ Medical Center today celebrated the opening of a new, state-of-the art critical care unit - a 13-bed surgical intensive care unit (ICU) and a 13-bed cardiothoracic ICU. [4-2-2007]

Westchester Medical Center Reaches 10,000 Patient Transfers One Call Transfer Center at WMC accepts a record number of patient transfers from hospitals throughout the Hudson Valley region and beyond By David Billig [3-15-2007]

Job Description of a Bedside Nurse in an American Hospital, 1887   [3-14-2007]

State Marks 4th Annual Occupational Health Awareness and Outreach Day   [3-14-2007]

Montefiore Medical Center Joins New York Blood Center as Collection Site for Umbilical Cord Blood Diverse Bronx Patient Base to Become New Source for Patients Worldwide [3-14-2007]

New York Methodist Hospital Opens Third Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory NYM recently opened the doors of its third cardiac catheterization lab, increasing the number of patients who can receive state-of-the-art heart disorder diagnostics and treatment at the Hospital. By Allison Langeler [3-7-2007]

NUMC Honors HIV Infected Patients at 2nd Annual Survivorship Celebration The event celebrated the survival of HIV/AIDS infected patients and honored patients who have lived with the virus for over ten years. By Shelley Lotenberg [3-6-2007]

Nurses Honored for Quick Thinking at Nassau University Medical Center   [3-2-2007]

NUMC PeriAnesthesia Nurses: Exceptional People, Touching Your World   [2-14-2007]

New York Hospital Queens Breaks Ground for Major Modernization Expansion to Meet Demand in Era of Hospital Cut Backs State-Wide [2-9-2007]

North Shore-LIJ “Goes Red” for Women’s Heart Health   [2-6-2007]

Nassau University Medical Center Joins IHI’s 5 Million Lives Campaign Nassau Health Care Corporation announced that it has joined the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s 5 Million Lives Campaign, a national campaign to dramatically reduce incidents of medical harm in U.S. hospitals. [2-2-2007]

Maimonides Medical Center Achieves 2007 Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence Recognized Among Top Five Percent in Nation by HealthGrades Quality Study [1-29-2007]

NYS Nurses Association Tells Congress: Reject the Bush Healthcare Plan President George W. Bush's "health care reform" proposal, touted in his State of the Union Address, will not help most of the 46 million Americans currently without health insurance. [1-24-2007]

Maimonides Medical Center Provides Comprehensive Care for MS Patients Patients Thrive at Brooklyn’s Only National MS Society-Affiliated MS Care Center. Each patient is thoroughly assessed by a multidisciplinary team, ensuring that this chronic disease is properly identified. According to Dr. Robyn Wolintz, Co-Director of the Center, treatment options will vary according to the stage of the disease, the severity of symptoms, the patient’s age and lifestyle. [1-24-2007]