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Nurses
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Health Law Update
Do You Know What Your Hospital Board Members Are Doing?
David Chandler was appointed to serve as chairman of Tri-Lakes Medical Center (TLMC), a community hospital in Panola County, Mississippi. As chairman, Chandler set board meeting agendas, regularly dealt with…
Elder Law Prof Blog
Report ties higher nurse staffing to lower Medicare penalties
By Kim Dayton
Nurses United, a labor union devoted to nurses, got some well-timed ammunition in their fight to impose strict staffing minimums on the District's hospitals last week.vvThe journal Health Affairs published…
Healthcare Workplace Update
Tension Behind Patient-To-Nurse Staffing Ratio Highlighted By Union Initiative
By Andy Moss
Beginning this month, the Massachusetts Nurses Association (“MNA”) initiated a signature drive to support legislation requiring hospitals to limit the number of patients cared for by individual nurses. The initiative…
Management Memo
Nurse-to-Patient Ratios: Coming to a Hospital Near You?
By: Adam C. Abrahms and Stephanie R. Carrington Since California’s implementation of legislation setting minimum nurse-to-patient staffing ratios in 2004, the issue of nurse staffing has been slowly but surely…
InsureReinsure
Healthcare Update: Massachusetts Bans Mandatory Overtime for Nurses
Recently, on August 6, 2012, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick signed into law Senate Bill 2400. The Bill, which states that it is “An Act improving the quality of healthcare and…
Employment & Labor
Massachusetts Bans Mandatory Overtime for Nurses: Nurses Association Applauds
By Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
By Amy J. Traub and Ian Gabriel Nanos A new law in Massachusetts prohibits hospitals from requiring nursing staff to work mandatory overtime under most circumstances. The law, which will…
Pennsylvania Law Monitor
The Impact of Nurse Staffing and Workloads on Patient Mortality
In my blogs I have previously written about matters related to nurse patient ratios. A recent study on nurse staffing was reported in Science Daily on March 16, 2011 in…
Med Law Blog
Nurse Immigration Visa Bill Proposed to Fight Shortage
HR 2536, The Emergency Nursing Supply Relief Act, See http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-2536 has been introduced in the House by Congressman Robert Wexler. Although there is a long process ahead this first step provides hope…
Pennsylvania Labor & Employment Blog
Prohibition of Excessive Overtime in Health Care Act will Exacerbate Nursing Shortage
Clinical staffing problems for Pennsylvania healthcare facilities created by shortages of nursing professionals will be greatly exacerbated by a new law prohibiting mandatory overtime for employees engaged in direct patient…
Nursing Home Law Blog
New Jersey Faces Nursing Shortage
As recently reported in the Courier Post, New Jersey faces a critical nursing shortage. As is frequently revealed in investigations of nursing home negligence and abuse, there is much more…