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By Andrew Villegas - KHN on February 22nd, 2010
Doctor shortage fuels nurses’ push for expanded role
But some doctors argue say nurse practitioners are unqualified to provide primary care without supervision.
Tag: "Nurses"
By KaiserHealthNews on January 20th, 2010
View: Give nurses a bigger role in improving health care
Why don’t nurses have more influence?
By KaiserHealthNews on December 10th, 2009
Nurses: Champions of patient safety
Nurses have been undervalued and often set up to fail.
By KaiserHealthNews on September 03rd, 2009
Reform Won’t Work Without Strengthening Nursing
Nurses are left out of the health reform debate, but It is nurses who provide most of the skilled care in hospitals–the only care in many poor communities, writes Sandy Summers, director of The Truth About Nursing and co-author of Saving LIves: Why the Media’s Portrayal of Nurses Puts Us All at Risk.
By LocalHealthGuide on August 28th, 2009
As economic conditions force a tighter job market, new nurses find it’s harder than ever to land their dream job—or any job, for that matter.
“Nursing, even in hard times, was thought to be recession-proof.”
By Chris Linden and Melissa Suran, Medill News Service
It wasn’t supposed to be this hard. Nursing student Barbara Lopez had been told for a long time that she would have an easy time finding a job.
But it took her five months—starting before she graduated in June—to [...]
By LocalHealthGuide on August 14th, 2009
Health Stories in the News – Aug. 14
Allow Seattle Children’s to expand, says Seattle Times
The Seattle City Council should reverse ruling of a hearing examiner who has rejected Seattle Children’s expansion plans, says Seattle Times argues in an editorial today’s paper.
The hearing examiner found that hospital’s planned expansion, which would add 1.5 million square feet of space on its Lauralhurst campus, was inappropriate [...]
By LocalHealthGuide on August 12th, 2009
$13.5 million in loan repayments for nurses willing to work in facilities facing shortages or to teach
The U.S. government is making available $8.1 million for education loan repayment for nurses willing to work for two years at facilities that face a critical nurse shortages.
The funds will be offered on a competitive basis to 100 registered nurses.
In Washington state the program will offer five positions: four at the University of Washington Medical [...]
By Dr. Carolyn Clancy on August 07th, 2009
What is a ‘medical home” and is it right for you?
The concept of a “medical home”—a clinic where you are followed by a team of primary care providers who know you and can coordinate your care—is getting more attention these days. (See NPR’s story on Swedish Medical Center’s “medical home” program in Ballard below.)
Here Dr. Carolyn Clancy, director of the U.S. Agency for Healthcare [...]
By LocalHealthGuide on August 07th, 2009
‘Medical Homes’ Concept Takes Off In Seattle
Seattle’s KPLU reporter Keith Seinfeld has a story on NPR this week about Swedish Hospital’s new “medical home” clinic in Ballard.
LocalHealthGuide’s story from March is below.
By Keith Seinfeld, NPR News
August 7, 2009
This story comes from KHN partner NPR
When President Obama and other Democrats talk about changing the health care system, one phrase that comes up [...]
By Michael McCarthy on August 07th, 2009
Swedish Medical Center’s new “medical home” in Ballard
The idea behind the medical-home model is to create a primary-care team that provides continuous, coordinated care to patients at one location.
By LocalHealthGuide on July 14th, 2009
Report predicts strong growth in health employment
The President’s Council of Economic Advisers predicts strong growth in health-related employment in the U.S. over the coming years.
Health care practitioners and technicians, which include physicians, registered nurses, and other health professionals and technicians, are expected to be in increasing demand. Jobs for medical records and health information technicians are also projected to increase. Investments [...]
By LocalHealthGuide on June 06th, 2009
Health stories in the news
UW graduate nursing students protest tuition rise
Students enrolled in the University of Washington’s doctoral program for family nurse practitioners are protesting administrative changes that will boost their tuition 43 percent, Nick Perry reports in today’s Seattle Times.
The changes also mean some students who work at UW programs will lose tuition subsidies they have been receiving [...]
By LocalHealthGuide on May 21st, 2009
What is a “medical home” and is it right for you?
Creating a “medical home” to help patients cope with chronic and often complicated health problems is really an old idea that is getting a new look as health providers try to find ways to improve the quality of care and reduce medical costs.
In this column, Dr. Carolyn Clancy, director of the U.S. Agency for Health Research [...]
By LocalHealthGuide on May 08th, 2009
Health care employment grows by 17,000
While the U.S. economy lost 539,000 nonfarm payroll jobs last month, employment in the health-care sector rose 17,000, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports.
Still, growth in health-care sector jobs was down from last year when employment grew on average by 30,000 per month.
Since the recession began in December, the economy has shed 5.7 million [...]
By LocalHealthGuide on February 16th, 2009
Valley Medical Center News
The Association of Washington Business has awarded Valley Medical Center’s Safety Team a “Better Workplace Award” for reducing worker’s compensation injuries, adopting innovative safe patient handling techniques, and improving its return to work strategies.
The safe patient handling initiative included the development of ”Lift Teams” that specializes in helping move patients. The members of these teams [...]
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