A nurses union is turning the spotlight on a healthcare executive who the union says is mainly responsible for closing a labor and delivery unit for babies at Milwaukee's Ascension St. Francis Hospital.
About 50 members of the Wisconsin Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals rallied Wednesday night on a sidewalk on Milwaukee's east side, outside what they said was one of the homes of Ascension Wisconsin executive Bernie Sherry.
A scholarship established in memory of Tim Brown, a South Carolina nurse practitioner shot and killed last May in an apparent robbery in his home, will help others become nurses.
Fundraising is underway for the scholarship, which will provide $1,000 scholarships to two students earning a bachelor of science in nursing degree annually and one full-tuition scholarship, approximately $38,000, every two years to a student enrolled in the master of science in nursing-family nurse practitioner program at Francis Marion University.
In preparation for a potential strike January 9, hospitals today will begin what they call "decanting" their facilities, hospital sources told NBC New York.
That means they will start canceling elective procedures, including some fairly significant procedures, and discharging patients as early as clinically possible in an effort to get the patient count down.
Nurses at University of Louisville Health are getting a chance to care for patients before they get to the hospital.
UofL Health is building a new seven-story tower downtown that will include 360 private rooms and nurse groups are getting the chance to provide feedback to the architects about how to best design the rooms with patients and staff and mind.