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Delaware Valley Family Health Center
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
DOVER—The budget-writing Joint Finance Committee balked Monday at an administration proposal to close Emily P. Bissell Hospital and Gov. Bacon Health Center, a move that would have saved the state $1 million next year.
Patients from the two state-run nursing homes would have been moved to the Delaware Hospital for the Chronically Ill in Smyrna, which would have undergone a hurried renovation to accommodate them.
Similar proposals have surfaced and been roundly rejected by legislators since the 1990s—and Monday was no exception.
Although no formal vote was taken, the legislators made it clear they were having no part of it, and they told budget officials to look elsewhere in the Department of Health and Social Services for cost savings.
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The Birth Center Holistic Women’s Healthcare LLC will be holding a 10 year anniversary
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
The Birth Center, Holistic Women’s Healthcare LLC has offered women the option of a safe, relaxing, empowering birth for the past 10 years. They invite you to celebrate with them May 31st in Arden, DE.
For the last 10 years, owners and Certified Nurse Midwives (CNMs) Dorinda Dove and Kathleen McCarthy have made it their mission to provide families with the option of giving birth outside of the hospital. The midwives at The Birth Center have offered families the comfort and choice of birthing on their own terms in a soothing and safe environment.
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Demand up, supply down for nurses
Friday, May 08, 2009
Leaders at Beebe School of Nursing know the problems with their building, but to replace the current, 1960s-era structure, Beebe needs about $5 million. So instead of moving forward, the school’s expansion plans are standing still as the organization works to raise the funds.
“We’ve just not been able to raise the money and, with economic conditions the way they are, our investment income is down, philanthropy is harder. People are holding on to their money,” said Wallace Hudson, vice president for corporate affairs at Beebe Medical Center in Lewes. “These are tough times—and yet there is still demand for nurses.”
That’s the conundrum facing Beebe and other Delaware nursing schools. There is no shortage of demand. Although hospital officials say hiring has slowed somewhat because of the recession, health-care professions still generally are a stable, well-paying and flexible option for recent high school graduates and older workers seeking new careers.
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Bayhealth nurses earn DAISY awards for outstanding care
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Registered nurses at Bayhealth Medical Center were recently honored with the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses.
Dennis Dittoe, RN, and Nicola Knaupe, BSN, RN, received the first DAISY Awards in special ceremonies at Milford Memorial and Kent General hospitals.
Presented in collaboration with The American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE), the award is part of the DAISY Foundation’s program to recognize the extraordinary efforts nurses perform every day. The awards are presented quarterly to a nurse from Kent General Hospital and a nurse from Milford Memorial Hospital. Each honoree receives a certificate commending him or her as an extraordinary nurse and a sculpture called “A Healer’s Touch,” hand-carved by artists of the Shona Tribe in Africa.
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Health alliance aims to improve Delaware care
Friday, April 10, 2009
NEWARK—A stronger network of home-grown doctors, nurses, physical therapists and pharmacists is at the heart of a new alliance that has charged itself with changing Delaware’s health care system for the future.
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The Delaware Health Sciences Alliance will work to educate health care students in Delaware and to keep them in the state after graduation to treat patients, conduct medical research and spur economic investment.
Creating new educational and research centers is a primary goal announced Tuesday by the alliance’s founding partners—the University of Delaware, Thomas Jefferson University, Christiana Care Health System and the Nemours Foundation.
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Beebe Medical Center Gets Almost Half A Million For Nursing
Friday, March 13, 2009
Beebe Medical Center will benefit from a spending bill signed by the President this week. The Center will get almost half a million dollars for a new School of Nursing.
The money will be used for the construction and equipment. The goal of the school expansion is to train more nurses to care for patients in Delaware and across the Peninsula. Officials say the project will allow enrollment to grow 100 percent.
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Delaware Nurses Host Showing of Film About Breast Cancer
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
“40,000 women will die from breast cancer this year.” The white words linger on a black screen, then fade. Then, “1 woman every 13 minutes.”
Filmmaker Sabrina McCormick uses startling facts like these to get her audience’s attention. Her documentary, “No Family History,” puts a face on these statistics by following Robin Caslenova, a 44-year-old mother of two, through her double mastectomy and chemotherapy treatments. In the film, Caslenova demands to know why she got breast cancer and how come women don’t know how to prevent it.Read Full Article
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Beebe hospital making room for more babies
Thursday, February 05, 2009
LEWES --Over the holidays, Beebe Medical Center received more than its usual share of “gifts,” and now hospital officials are looking to accommodate a growing need for healthcare.
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Over a 10-day period, from Dec. 21 through Jan. 1, 37 babies were born in the hospital’s Birthing Center, capping off a record-breaking year. In calendar year 2008, 1,036 babies were born at the hospital, eclipsing the previous year’s total by 52 births, officials said.
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Food allergies tricky for patients, doctors
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Kate Lund broke out in hives on Labor Day weekend in 2007. For the next six months, she was off and on steroids as doctors tried to figure out what was causing the allergic reaction.
“It was really bad,” said Kim Lund of Magnolia, Del., mother of the 6-year-old. “It was hard to test her because she was always an active case.
“She would break out head to toe. She looked like a leper,” she said.
After keeping a food journal and following a series of trial-and-error tests, they discovered Kate is allergic to sulphites, a preservative often found in canned fish, and fresh grapes and strawberries.
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Delaware RNs Collect Unused Medications
Saturday, January 24, 2009
The elderly man wearing a green John Deere baseball cap arrived with two plastic grocery bags full of unused and half-used medications. He had tears in his eyes as he explained they had belonged to his wife. He had been wondering what to do with the hundreds of pills after her recent death.
A middle-aged couple arrived with a box overflowing with assorted ointments, inhalers, pills, and liquid medications.
“These belong to my 92-year-old mother-in-law, who has been living with us for the past five years,” the woman said. “She’s had six surgeries, lots of medical complications, and the doctors keep switching her prescriptions. We didn’t want to flush the pills and have them end up in our water supply. We also have grandchildren who visit, so we need to get these pills out of the house.”
Stories like these were heard from many of the people who participated in Delaware’s first “Medicine Cabinet Clean-Out Days,” a series of pharmaceutical take-back events sponsored by Nurses Healing Our Planet (NHOP). Alarmed by the growing body of scientific evidence documenting the presence of pharmaceuticals in groundwater, surface water, and drinking water, the task force created these events to protect the water supply and provide the public with a safe and secure disposal method for expired or unused pharmaceuticals.
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