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.

Groundbreaking Tuesday for patient care facility (WWMT 3 Kalamazoo)

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - Spectrum Health officials will break ground on a brand new patient care facility in East Grand Rapids Tuesday. The expansion is part of a nearly $100 million re-investment in Blodgett Hospital.

Long-distance health care (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Heralded as both time and money savers, telemonitoring and telehealth services are gaining a greater foothold in the increasingly costly health care market.

8 fired at Ohio nursing home over patient care (FOX 19 Cincinnati)

FINDALY, Ohio (AP) - Eight nurses at a northwest Ohio nursing home have been fired for failing to stop a patient from harming herself. Ohio's health department also has issued three citations against the Blanchard Valley Health System nursing home in Findlay.

USC, hospital system launch health-care initiative (The Greenville News)

The University of South Carolina's new president came to Greenville Tuesday to help launch a new program that hopes to solve some of health care's most vexing problems.