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Athena Communities Locates near Skilled Nursing Facilities
Throughout the late 1990s, Connecticut

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Nurses Play Critical Role in Maine Healthcare Reform
Augusta – Once again, a governor of Maine has turned to bedside nurses to play a crucial part in drafting important healthcare policy reforms. On the first day of his new administration, Governor John Baldacci signed an executive order creating the Governor

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Spring Harbor First To Utilize Video Relay Interpreting Service
Portland – Spring Harbor Hospital is the first hospital in Maine to utilize Pine Tree Society

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Good Endings

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New Hampshire No. 1 in Medicare Study
New Hampshire is number one, again. The second Medicare study of 24 quality indicators, published recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association, revealed that New Hampshire seniors are getting high quality, appropriate care. New Hampshire ranked number one, Vermont was number two, and Maine [...]

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SNHMC CEO Addresses New England Hospital Trustees
Nashua – Thomas E. Wilhelmsen Jr., president and CEO of Southern New Hampshire Med-ical Center (SNH- MC), addressed the 23rd Annual Trustee Confer-ence,

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RI Is First State to Produce Guidelines for Nonoccupational HIV Exposures
The Rhode Island Department of Health this fall published guidelines for treating people who are not healthcare workers who may have been exposed to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The guidelines, the first written in the US for all types of nonoccupational [...]

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Local Healthcare Organizations Collaborate to Protect High Risk Babies from Serious Respiratory Illness
Rutland – A treatment for serious lower respirator illness in infants, once available in the Burlington area, is now available to infants in the Rutland area through the collaborative efforts of Wilcox Pharmacy/Option Care and the Rutland Area Visiting Nurse Association & [...]

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Mt. Ascutney Hospital Wins National Award
Windsor – Sometimes even the smallest kid on the block can gain national recognition. Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center in Windsor is licensed for 99 hospital beds. It is the smallest hospital in the country selected out of 150 applications as a finalist for the Foster G. McGaw [...]

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Athena Communities Locates near Skilled Nursing Facilities
Throughout the late 1990s, Connecticut’s senior housing market exploded
with new development in assisted and independent living. Moving from a
state with few choices for seniors to one now saturated with providers
and options, Connecticut has come a long way in a short time.
While
some providers have since entered and left the market [...]

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Nurses Play Critical Role in Maine Healthcare Reform
Augusta -
Once again, a governor of Maine has turned to bedside nurses to play a
crucial part in drafting important healthcare policy reforms. On the
first day of his new administration, Governor John Baldacci signed an
executive order creating the Governor’s Office of Health Policy and
Finance. He also established the [...]

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Spring Harbor First To Utilize Video Relay Interpreting Service
Portland – Spring Harbor Hospital is the first hospital in Maine to
utilize Pine Tree Society’s Video Relay Interpreting (VRI) project. The
VRI project is a unique, collaborative, comprehensive video
conferencing system that makes sign language interpreting services
available to hospitals in Maine.
There are significant barriers
for Maine people who [...]

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Good Endings®: Dealing with Death in the Nursing Home
Imagine
yourself in a nursing facility with no family, and those few friends
you have are old, perhaps sick, perhaps unable to drive to visit you.
Imagine lying in bed, being tended by health aides, nursing assistants,
and various other staff. Can they be your family now? They will [...]

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New Hampshire No. 1 in Medicare Study
New Hampshire is number
one, again. The second Medicare study of 24 quality indicators,
published recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association,
revealed that New Hampshire seniors are getting high quality,
appropriate care. New Hampshire ranked number one, Vermont was number
two, and Maine was number three, in the study of [...]

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SNHMC CEO Addresses New England Hospital Trustees
Nashua – Thomas E. Wilhelmsen Jr., president
and
CEO of Southern New Hampshire Med-ical Center (SNH- MC), addressed the
23rd Annual Trustee Confer-ence, “Guardians of Community Health,”
presented by the New England Healthcare Assembly this winter in Boston.
His discussion focused on two innovative community initiatives that
were implemented at SNHMC over 10 years [...]

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RI Is First State to Produce Guidelines for Nonoccupational HIV Exposures
The Rhode Island Department of Health this fall published guidelines
for treating people who are not healthcare workers who may have been
exposed to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The
guidelines, the
first written in the US for all types of nonoccupational HIV exposures,
are voluntary and [...]

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Local Healthcare Organizations Collaborate to Protect High Risk Babies from Serious Respiratory Illness
Rutland – A treatment for serious lower respirator illness in infants,
once available in the Burlington area, is now available to infants in
the Rutland area through the collaborative efforts of Wilcox
Pharmacy/Option Care and the Rutland Area Visiting Nurse Association
& Hospice.
RSV (respiratory syncytial virus), [...]

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Mt. Ascutney Hospital Wins National Award
Windsor – Sometimes
even the smallest kid on the block can gain national recognition. Mt.
Ascutney Hospital and Health Center in Windsor is licensed for 99
hospital beds. It is the smallest hospital in the country selected out
of 150 applications as a finalist for the Foster G. McGaw Prize, a
prestigious national award.
[...]

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