Survey Says New Orleans Safety-Net Clinics Succeeding

A Commonwealth Fund survey of safety-net clinic patients in New Orleans finds that 27% went without needed healthcare because of cost, compared to 41% of adults across the country. Read more »

Hispanic Nurse to Head Texas School of Nursing

Elias Provencio-Vasquez, RN, PhD, has been appointed dean of The University of Texas at El Paso School of Nursing. Nationally, Provencio-Vasquez is the first Hispanic male to assume such a position. Read more »

JPS Health Earns Beacon Award

The ICU at JPS Health Network, Fort Worth, Texas, will be presented a fall 2009 Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses in May at AACN’s 2010 National Teaching Institute and Critical Care Exposition. The award recognizes top U.S. adult and pediatric critical care and progressive care units that meet evidence-based excellence and patient safety standards. “Units that receive this award serve as shining role models to others that seek to optimize the care they provide to patients and families,” AACN President Beth Hammer, RN, MSN, APRN-BC, said in a news release. Read more »

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