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Redesigning Hospitals, With Grieving Family Members in Mind
Awaiting devastating news of a loved one in a hospital is harrowing for family members. The Design & Dignity Programme is creating comfortable, homey spaces in the wards to soften the experience. In 2011, the Mater Hospital received a grant to physically enhance the spaces…
Author: Fast Company
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Vietnam to See Private and Foreign-Invested Hospitals Mushrooming
According to the Ministry of Health, number of private clinics and foreign-invested hospitals will sharply soar in the near future when a series of investment incentives are put into reality. First of all, many barriers in private medical activities in Vietnam will be removed when…
Author: Thai Press Reports
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Health sector moves to make hospitals safe from disasters
The Health Ministry, in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO), launched a campaign, entitled Save lives, make hospitals safe in emergencies, on April 7 in response to the World Health Day. Every year, Vietnam is regularly hit by floods and storms, especially during the…
Author: Vietnamese News Agency (VNA)
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As Population Ages, Hospital Nurses Increasingly Finding their NICHE
By Chris Lund People over the age of 65 are expected to grow from 13.3% of the US population today to 20.3% by 2030, and those over the age of 85 are projected to increase from 5.7 million in 2011 to 8.9 million people in…
Author: ElderBranch
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Elderly people abused in hospitals and care homes
Elderly people are being “mistreated and abused” in hospitals and care homes, according to a new report. by Chris Irvine Age Concern criticises the lack of progress made a year on from a parliamentary report that recommended an “entire culture change” to tackle human rights…
Author: Daily Telegraph
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East Rand hospitals are suffering – TAC
The Treatment Action Campaign is an Atlantic grantee. by Gia Nicolaides The Treatment Action Campaign says Ekurhuleni hospitals are suffering from major staff shortages – more so than other facilities in the province. Dozens of TAC members marched to the mayoral offices in Germiston on Thursday to hand…
Author: Eye Witness News
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10 Ways Mission Bay Puts Patients First
Supportive Surroundings At the new UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, the environment itself — not just the care and services provided there — helps support our patients and aid the healing process. Patient-Friendly Imaging Suites MRIs and other imaging tests can require having…
Author: UCSF Mission Bay Hospitals
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Caring when it counts
Original Source by Barbara Harding DEATH is a frightening subject that few of us like to think about, never mind discuss, but it comes to us all eventually and often in an unexpected manner. Ensuring our environment offers us grace, dignity and respect in our…
Author: Irish Independent (Supplement)
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Medical school supports strikers
by Lyse Comins The University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine has brought lectures, training and clinical duties in hospitals to a halt in solidarity with striking doctors who have vowed to continue protesting until the Department of Health reinstates their 244 fired…
Author: Daily News (South Africa)
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Health Critic Brings a Past and a Wallet
Health Care for America Now is an Atlantic grantee. By JIM RUTENBERG WASHINGTON — Richard L. Scott is unusual in these tough economic times: a rich, conservative investor willing to spend freely on a political cause. Mr. Scott is starring in his own rotation of advertisements…
Author: The New York Times
