News & Updates: Urban (12)
| News items from the past 60 days |
Sort by:
Name | Date
|
At Hospitals, New Methods With a Focus on Diversity
September 6, 2010 -- A growing number of hospitals across the country are going beyond hiring interpreters and offering translated paperwork and are adopting practices intended to improve care for an increasingly diverse patient population.
Source: The New York Times
view details
Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Clinics, Diversity, Health Care Quality, Hospitals, Immigration, Limited English Proficiency, New York, Physicians, Recruitment and Retention, Trends, Urban
|
Public Hospitals Look to Overhaul Affiliations With Medical Schools
September 2, 2010 -- New York City’s hospital system wants to renegotiate longstanding contracts that allow medical schools to manage physicians.
Source: The New York Times
view details
Tagged keywords: Academic Health Centers, Education and Training, Hospitals, New York, Physicians, Trends, Urban
|
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Northwest Health Foundation Announce New Initiatives to Build the 21st Century Nursing Workforce
August 31, 2010 -- The program provides support to local and regional philanthropies to act as catalysts in their own communities and to develop strategies for creating and sustaining a viable nursing workforce.
Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
view details
Tagged keywords: California, Colorado, Cultural Competence, Diversity, Education and Training, Faculty, Home Health Aides, Long Term Care Facilities, Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Dakota, Nursing Occupations, Ohio, Recruitment and Retention, Registered Nurses, Rural, Scope of Practice, Technology, Texas, Urban, Workforce Pipeline
|
Nursing, Medical Students Partner on Interdisciplinary Care to Needy
August 24, 2010 -- An innovative program at Florida International University is attempting to teach providers how to work together, while at the same time benefiting the local community.
Source: HealthLeaders Media
view details
Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Education and Training, Florida, Health Care Quality, Interprofessional Training, Nursing Occupations, Physical Therapy Occupations, Physicians, Registered Nurses, Urban
|
Training Lay Health Workers Envisioned
August 19, 2010 -- North Carolina Central University and Lincoln Community Health Center are in the very early stages of a potential collaboration that could bring lay health workers to underserved neighborhoods in the city.
Source: The Herald Sun (NC)
view details
Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Education and Training, Health Care Access, Health Care Support, North Carolina, Recruitment and Retention, Shortage Designations, Supply and Demand, Urban, Workforce Pipeline
|
Innovative Health Programs Counter Primary Care Shortage
August 16, 2010 -- Focuses on innovative workforce programs in Massachusetts.
Source: USA Today
view details
Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, Massachusetts, Physicians, Primary Care, Recruitment and Retention, Supply and Demand, Urban, Workforce Pipeline
|
Nursing Shortage: More Jobs Than Recruiters Can Fill
August 14, 2010 -- Despite a U.S. unemployment rate approaching 10 percent, a Manhattan-based nurse staffing company has such an extraordinary demand for nurses that it can't fill all of the vacancies.
Source: ABC News
view details
Tagged keywords: Health Care Access, New York, Nursing Occupations, Registered Nurses, Supply and Demand, Urban, Workforce Pipeline
|
Paramedics Will Employ New Therapy in Cardiac Arrest Cases
August 2, 2010 -- Paramedics in New York City are being trained in a relatively new cooling therapy that has been shown to increase the chances for cardiac arrest patients to survive and to avoid brain damage, city officials said on Monday.
Source: The New York Times
view details
Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics, New York, Patient Safety, Trends, Urban
|
Access to Primary Care Physicians Getting Tougher, Report Finds
July 26, 2010 -- Massachusetts has the highest ratio of doctors per person in the country, but that doesn’t mean its residents can find a primary care physician who is accepting new patients.
Source: The Boston Globe
view details
Tagged keywords: Clinics, Health Care Access, Health Reform, Hospitals, Massachusetts, Physicians, Primary Care, Statistics and Data, Trends, Urban
|
Despite Recent Layoffs, Hospitals May Be Poised for Hiring
July 26, 2010 -- Despite the reductions, David Cherner, managing partner of Health Workforce Solutions, LLC, says he remains “bullish” on hospital hiring, and believes hospitals in several markets across the country are poised to add staff—possibly by the end of thi
Source: HealthLeaders Media
view details
Tagged keywords: Allied Health, Hospitals, National, Recruitment and Retention, Statistics and Data, Supply and Demand, Trends, Urban
|
Hospital Hiring Posed to Rebound After Months of Layoffs
July 26, 2010 -- After back-to-back months of job losses in the hospital sector, hospital hiring is poised for a rebound, according to David Cherner of Health Workforce Solutions.
Source: Mlive.com
view details
Tagged keywords: Hospitals, National, Trends, Urban
|
Program Offers Free Training for Medical Industry
July 21, 2010 -- Graduates at Los Angeles Valley College got certificates for completing the first phase of a program giving low-income and unemployed adults in LA free classes and paid internships for future jobs as medical assistants, pharmacy technicians, and CNAs.
Source: KABC-TV Los Angeles
view details
Tagged keywords: Best Practices and Model Programs, California, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Education and Training, Medical Assistants, Pharmacy Technicians and Aides, Recruitment and Retention, Trends, Urban, Workforce Pipeline
|
Page last updated September 7, 2010
|
