Out-of-state registered nurses who are a part of the California Nurses Foundation and National Nurses United are continuing to come to Tucson to help care for migrants at the Benedictine Monastery. The registered nurses recently completed their third visit to the shelter where they help migrants of all ages by providing a variety of treatments.
A former Vanderbilt nurse who is being criminally prosecuted for a fatal medication error was also investigated by state health officials who ultimately decided there was no reason to discipline her or take any action against her nursing license.
A Nashville health care staffing company hasn’t paid at least 100 employees in two months, forcing nurse practitioners in four states to wait for thousands of dollars of backpay that may never come. But what these practitioners don’t know is that they haven’t been paid because their employer is suspected of fraud. Federal officials froze the company’s Medicare reimbursements last year while investigating if it overcharged the government to artificially inflate profits. That investigation continues today.
Barton Health and its nurses have agreed to a "cooling off period" amid ongoing labor negotiations. That's according to a press release from the U.S. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, which has been brought in by the two parties to try and help find a resolution.
Helping run a $7 million health care fraud out of a West Miami-Dade businees cost Rossana Ramirez a few years of freedom and her certified nursing assistant license permanently. The Florida Department of Health dropped an Emergency Suspension Order (ESO) on Ramirez’s certified nursing assistant license after she pleaded guilty last fall in federal court to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud.
Some nurses and surgical techs at Children's Hospital of Michigan are repurposing surgical wraps in order to help the homeless. Nurse Jennifer Lund says she was inspired by a story she'd seen about a New Jersey operating room doing just that. She asked her colleagues and they started collecting the blue wraps.