Annual Summit Connects Americas Healthcare Policy and Environmental Health

Annual Summit Connects Americas Healthcare Policy and Environmental Health
The Research Triangle Environmental Health Collaborative (The Collaborative) will gather 150 local, state and national experts at its third annual environmental health summit on September 28-29, 2010. The summit will be held at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park and focus on [...]

Health-care reality hits workers

Health-care reality hits workers
As reforms begin to take effect, state workers face mammoth task of implementing the new law. Health care – Law – United States – Politics – Health
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Doctors Oppose Barbour’s Health-Care Lawsuit

Doctors Oppose Barbour’s Health-Care Lawsuit
The health-care reform advocacy group Doctors for America is speaking out against Gov. Haley Barbour for joining a 20-state lawsuit against the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act.
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Albertans want health-care advocate, health charter in any new legislation

Albertans want health-care advocate, health charter in any new legislation
The Alberta government is eyeing a health charter and a health-care advocate as part of an overhaul of its legislation.The two recommendations are among 15 put forward by thousands of Albertans who attended workshops across the province this year and filled out web-based surveys.Health Minister Gene [...]

No deal yet on salary, health-care costs in contract talks between EMU, professors

No deal yet on salary, health-care costs in contract talks between EMU, professors
Dustin Walsh – The Sept. 8 start of Eastern Michigan University ’s fall semester is potentially threatened because the school’s administration and its professors remain deadlocked in contract talks over salary and health-care cost issues. The contract expires at midnight Tuesday. The approximately [...]

Interactive Intelligence opens on-site health-care clinic

Interactive Intelligence opens on-site health-care clinic
Software company opens on-site health-care clinic Indianapolis Indianapolis-based Interactive Intelligence has opened an on-site health-care clinic at its Northwestside headquarters to increase employee focus on wellness and prevention. The business communications software specialist said Monday it has contracted with OurHealth, a provider of on-site health management services. The clinic opened [...]

Parkinson to lead health-care group when term as Kansas governor ends

Parkinson to lead health-care group when term as Kansas governor ends
Kansas Governor Mark Parkinson will lead a national nursing home trade organization when he leaves office in January, he announced Monday. Parkinson, a Democrat, will be President and CEO of the American Health Care Association /National Center for Assisted Living, a non-profit, Washington-based trade and [...]

Unions representing health-care providers reach tentative agreement with SAHO

Unions representing health-care providers reach tentative agreement with SAHO
After more than two years without an agreement, three unions representing more than 25,000 health-care providers have reached a four-year tentative agreement with the Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations (SAHO). The Service Employees International Union-West (SEIU), the Canadian Union of Public Employees and the Saskatchewan Government and [...]

Health-care agency blasted

Health-care agency blasted
The agency that funds hospitals in Niagara says it did nothing wrong, after being raked over the coals Tuesday by the provincial ombudsman. “We’ve done nothing illegal,” said Juanita Gledhill, chairwoman of the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Local Health Intergration Network.[...]
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Health Notes: More fed money for healthcare training in Virginia

Health Notes: More fed money for healthcare training in Virginia
Virginia is set to get $5.6 million via 26 federal grants for healthcare workforce training — all geared to boosting the primary care workforce — and a result of the Affordable Care Act and Recovery Act.
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