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City, state move to improve nursing home safety (Chicago Tribune) Officials seek to solve problems in troubled facilities Chicago and state officials are moving forward with legislative proposals to improve safety inside the state's troubled nursing homes. City, state move to improve nursing home safety (Chicago Tribune) Chicago and state officials are moving forward with legislative proposals to improve safety inside the state's troubled nursing homes. After two hearings, 48th Ward Ald. Mary Ann Smith today introduced ordinance amendments designed to strengthen city inspections of nursing facilities, increase enforcement and penalties and require the homes to make public more details of their financial and ... Nursing home shutdown 'terrible' (Post-Tribune) Reaction to this week's ruling by an administrative law judge against Northlake Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Merrillville was predictable. Neither the owner nor the residents want the troubled nursing home to close. Despite their objections, the ruling likely spells the end for Northlake, which faces closure Monday. Only 13 residents continue to live in the 150-bed, for-profit nursing ... West Phila. nursing home shut down (6abc Philadelphia) The state of Pennsylvania has shut down a West Philadelphia nursing home. Hancock hospital to receive Mercy skilled nursing patients (The Globe Gazette) MASON CITY ? Skilled nursing patients from Hancock, Winnebago and Wright counties will soon be referred to Hancock County Memorial Hospital rather than Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa, Mercy officials announced. Lackawanna County closes on nursing home sale (The Scranton Times-Tribune) County closes on nursing home sale BLAKELY - Lackawanna County has closed on the $13.4 million sale of the Lackawanna County Health Care Center with Miami, Fla.-based Millennium Management, county officials said. Majority commissioners agreed on Millenni PVAMU awarded $3 million nursing grant (Waller County News Citizen) HOUSTON ? The Prairie View A&M University College of Nursing has been awarded a $3 million grant by the Houston Endowment to address the state?s nursing shortage. Jillian Cardinali is nursing school graduate (The Record and Herald News) Westwood â?? Jillian Cardinali recently graduated from the Holy Name Hospital School of Nursing, Teaneck, with a degree in nursing. She is currently employed as a registered nurse at Hackensack University Medical Center's Urology/Transplant Department. HCHPH?s Skilled Nursing Care program continues to evolve (Logan Herald-Observer & Woodbine Twiner) Harrison County Home and Public Health Home Health Supervisor and Registered Nurse Teresa McCandless believes the skilled nursing care program may have established roots as far back as 1920, though the program has evolved and continues to evolve to fit the needs of their clients. Nursing home to blame for dumping man (WANE-TV Fort Wayne) Remember Gregory George? He's the man from Auburn who says his nursing home abandoned him inside an Angola Hospital Emergency Room. Now, a State Department of Health report is confirming his story. |