Hurricane Sandy: Hospitals Strive To Stay Open, With Some Exceptions
Hospitals in the path of Hurricane Sandy have checked their generators and water pumps, extended hours and set up beds for their staffs, canceled elective surgeries and in some cases moved patients to higher floors or even other nearby facilities.www.huffingtonpost.com
Two hospitals could be privatised at struggling South London NHS trust
Two hospitals could be privatised and another will lose its accident and emergency department in the first test of the government's determination to deal with bankrupt NHS trusts, it has been revealed.www.guardian.co.uk
Cots for docs as hospitals brace for hurricane patients
As strong winds and fierce rain from Hurricane Sandy heralded the storm's arrival, hospitals across the Eastern Seaboard kicked disaster plans into place, told emergency room crews to bring enough clothes and personal supplies to last a few days and ...vitals.nbcnews.com
Hospitals Nationwide Join Urban Rooftop Farming Trend
An Article in the October Issue of Food Nutrition & Science Reviews How Hospitals Are Growing Their Own Food for Patient Consumption; Also in this Issue: Study Results on How Climate Change Is Making Marine Life Smaller, and more.www.sacbee.com
Flu shots or mask: hospital workers must make choice
STOCKTON - A local health rule imposed for the first time this year is encouraging many more hospital workers to get flu shots.www.recordnet.com
Hospitals, NYBC plan for blood supply issues ahead of Hurricane Sandy
The New York Blood Center is working with hospitals to make sure there is no disruption in the critical blood and blood product supply if a major storm hits the area, according to a news release.www.foxnews.com
Ghana: A Grant Meant to Curb Infant Mortality Focuses on Getting Mothers to ...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given a $5 million grant to a Massachusetts nonprofit group to work on a very specific problem: how to get new mothers in Ghana to hospitals. Child mortality is very high in Ghana, but many newborns can be saved ...www.nytimes.com
Despite Hurricane Sandy, care goes on at area hopsitals
Update: Hopkins said outpatient services at Johns Hopkins Hospital, including those at satellite offices, wiill be closed Tuesday.www.baltimoresun.com
Turning Point combines with KU Hospital
The agency will continue to do business with other hospitals in the Kansas City region and will continue to need community financial support to offer its free services to people battling cancer, chronic heart failure, kidney disease, diabetes, multiple ...www.kansascity.com
Mass. hospitals scramble to avoid Sandy's clout; Milton shifts to generators ...
Massachusetts hospitals are grappling with power outages, worker transportation disruptions and cancelled appointments and surgeries as Hurricane Sandy continues to intensify.www.bizjournals.com
Area hospitals announce storm-related closings and openings
Lawrence & Memorial Hospital in New London and The William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich announced storm-related closures today.www.theday.com
Hospitals in York Prepare to Weather Sandy
Employees at area hospitals are prepared to stay overnight as storms from Hurricane Sandy arrive. Memorial Hospital's emergency management committee began meeting last week and over the weekend to stay up to date on the weather forecast and make ...www.pennlive.com
Hospitals shore up supplies, brace for Sandy's landfall
As Hurricane Sandy prepared to make landfall Monday, hospitals and health care organizations in the state braced for potential power outages and storm-related injuries.bangordailynews.com
Hospital CIOs share their prep plans for Hurricane Sandy, other disasters
John Halamka (right), CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, said his hospital has multiple data centers with diverse power feeds, including one from an independent power generating station that supplies all of the Harvard hospitals.www.fiercehealthit.com
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust and the Bodleian Libraries Select ...
Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced today that it has signed a one-year agreement with Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust (OUH) and the Bodleian Libraries providing ...www.sacbee.com
Mail service, hospitals remain open but limited
A postal employee sorts mail at the United States Postal Service facility in Bellmawr. Jose F. Moreno/Courier-Post file Tony Pitzorella, sorts mail at the United States Postal Service located at Bellmawr, NJ.12/16/09 ...www.courierpostonline.com
Premier healthcare alliance Selects Beazley to Offer Hospitals New Cyber ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The Premier healthcare alliance's insurance subsidiary, Premier Insurance Management Services Inc. (PIMS), has selected Beazley Breach Response as its preferred data privacy and network security insurance solution.www.heraldonline.com
Cuba's 2nd city without power, water after Sandy
Authorities have set up radios and TVs in public spaces to keep people up to date on relief efforts, distributed chlorine to sterilize water and prioritized electrical service to strategic uses such as hospitals and bakeries. Enrique Berdion, a 45-year ...www.kansascity.com
Gauteng Moves to Improve Services At Its Big Hospitals
The Gauteng Department of Health is implementing a range of measures at its four biggest hospitals in an effort to improve services and quality of care.allafrica.com
Letter: Keep Parkview hospital open in Brunswick
Enough already regarding Mid Coast Hospital "partnering" with Parkview Adventist Medical Center. Mid Coast's intent has never been to partner, but to close Parkview, the same as it did Bath Memorial Hospital. Mid Coast has made a lot of misstatements ...www.theforecaster.net
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