SO-CAL HEALTHCARE WORKERS TO HOLD ONE-DAY STRIKE: August 28 action to call attention to undermining of patient care ... (Eurweb)

*Lynwood, CA - With frighteningly low numbers of trauma and emergency services in South Los Angeles, hundreds of healthcare workers at St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood will hold one-day strike on Thursday, August 28 at 12 noon to protest the health system's attempt to undermine important patient care protections and healthcare worker's voices.

Nursing cuts threaten patient care, union says (Scarborough Mirror)

Patient care will suffer under the latest round of nursing cuts, this time at Humber River Regional Hospital and St. Michael's Hospital, the president of the Ontario Nurses Association warns.

AeroScout's Visibility Solution Optimizes Workflow And Improves Patient Care For Oakwood Hospital & Medical Center (RFIDSolutions-RFIDSolutionsOnline)

AeroScout's Visibility Solution Optimizes Workflow and Improves Patient Care for Oakwood Hospital & Medical Center Award-Winning Michigan Hospital Deploys AeroScout's Wi-Fi-Based Active RFID Solution to Track More Than 600 Patients.

Autopulse devices to assist Edwardsville emergency medical personnel (Edwardsville Journal)

Edwardsville ambulance workers could have an easier time keeping people alive in transit to emergency care centers after the city gets two Autopulse CPR devices, which are designed to automatically provide CPR to patients.

Woman shoots self in head in hospital (The State)

Updated 12:39 p.m. A patient in the Palmetto Health Richland emergency care area took a revolver from a Department of Corrections officer’s holster and shot herself in the head. She was in critical condition late Tuesday, Columbia police said. The S.C. Department of Corrections this morning convened a panel to review the shooting and policies that apply to the transfer of inmates from ...