Results of an eight-month hospital study, "Room Decontamination with UV Radiation," were published in the October 2010 issue of "Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology." The study evaluated the ability of an automated UV device, Tru-D, to decontaminate patient rooms contaminated with MRSA...
Her first day as a nurse at Southampton's university hospitals was back in 1943 - and, at the age of 85, she is still here helping staff in children's outpatients. Nellie Noyce, who has spent time working as a paediatric nurse and a midwife, was among more than 65 volunteers being honoured by...
The Leapfrog Group's annual class of top hospitals was announced in Washington, DC at Leapfrog's 10th anniversary meeting and named St. Anthony Summit Medical Center, a Centura Health hospital, in Frisco, Colorado. St. Anthony Summit Medical Center was selected as one of only five rural...
A new book entitled "Intraoperative Neurophysiologic Monitoring" has been published by Cambridge University Press, co-authored by Nationwide Children's Hospital Pediatric Neurologists Gloria M. Galloway, MD, and Khaled M. Zamel, MD; Marc R. Nuwer, MD, of UCLA; and Jaime R. Lopez, MD of Stanford...
Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver is among the first medical centers in the world and the first in Colorado to commence treating cancer patients using the new TrueBeam™ system for image-guided radiotherapy and radiosurgery, a revolutionary new technology platform designed to target a...
HealthGrades, the nation's leading independent ratings organization, today made available to organ transplant patients a list of those hospitals with the best track record for survival and chances of receiving a donor organ. HealthGrades annual evaluation of the nation's top-performing hospitals...
There's this show on Adult Swim called Children's Hospital and Lake Bell is/was on it. But she hasn't been in the recent episodes soo, just wondering of she's still on the show.
My friend said that if my psychiatrist find out I do any drugs (like weed or triple C's [cough pills]) then they can lock me up for 3 days in a mental hospital because they did that to him. I was wondering if this was true or not (I'm not addicted or insane or anything).
"Consumer Choice" Award Goes To The Johns Hopkins Hospital For The 15th Consecutive Y
For the 15th straight year, the National Research Corporation (NRC) has given The Johns Hopkins Hospital its Consumer Choice Award for the Baltimore region. For 2010-2011, Hopkins also was rated as the top...
The Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS) presented its 2010 Auxiliary of the Year Awards to Arnot Ogden Medical Center Auxiliary and Jones Memorial Hospital Auxiliary. The awards were presented during a luncheon ceremony at HANYS' Annual Institute for Health Care Auxiliaries and...
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has been named the recipient of the 2010 Omar N. Bradley Spirit of Independence Award, presented by the Independence Bowl Foundation. The Independence Bowl Foundation consists of volunteer committees of more than 400 members who carry out all functions of...
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) has selected Corniche Hospital in Abu Dhabi, the UAE as the first site outside the UK to be accredited to provide training in the RCOG's Advanced Training Skills Module (ATSM) in Maternal Medicine. As part of its commitment to...
Investigators from Texas Children's Hospital and 16 other top pediatric heart centers in North America came together in Houston to analyze results from their 39-month national clinical trial of the Berlin Heart EXCOR® Pediatric Ventricular Assist Device (VAD), a German-manufactured pediatric...
I was confined in the hospital for like 4 days. Because of pneumonia. and now, i'm home using my pc, i'm starting to miss the hospital. i miss the dextrose in my hand, the nurses, the doctors. LOL funny, right? I can't sleep here tonight coz i used to think i'm still lying on my hospital bed. is...
As physicians and scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital work to find new insights into pediatric cancer and other catastrophic diseases, a central tenant of any treatment plan is to keep families at the center of children's care. The philosophy of family-centered care strives to...
A healthcare worker at a Worcestershire hospital contracted the Hepatitis C virus after injuring herself on a needle used to take blood from an infected patient. During the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecution of Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust over the February 2007 incident...
The Care Quality Commission has lifted some of the conditions which had been imposed on Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in response to concerns over its maternity services. When CQC introduced a new registration system in April, the trust was registered with conditions because it was...