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Video: Nurses Protest MedStar Hospital in Baltimore County, MD

2010-10-27T17:18:49Z

On Wed. morning, Oct. 27, 2010, members of the National Nurses United staged a spirited protest action in front of the “MedStar Health” owned Franklin Square Hospital in Baltimore County, MD. They raised concerns about “inadequate staffing” and “patient care problems” at the MedStar Health-owned Washington Hospital Center; and also the failure of the company [MedStar Health] to “negotiate a new contract,” at its D.C. facility with the nurses' union, according to their press release. To learn (…)

- contributions / Demos-Actions, Hospital, USA

Preparing for the next invasion

2006-11-15T18:32:36Z

By Amira Hass
The management of the Beit Hanun hospital decided to dig a well in the hospital's yard. By Saturday, laborers and bulldozers were already on the job. That is how the hospital is readying itself for the next invasion by the Israeli army.
The hospital, like the rest of Beit Hanun, has faced serious water supply difficulties due to the week-long military assault on the city and its 43,000 inhabitants. On the third night of the invasion, the army removed about 300 people from (…)

- contributions / Wars and conflicts, Hospital, International

Bill Frist, The Former 2008 Presidential Candidate

2005-09-27T20:15:32Z

By Jason Leopold
It's one thing to lie in politics. It's another to be caught in a lie. Bill Frist has been caught in a lie. His political future is over. The immediate question is, can he survive as Majority Leader?
The Tennessee Republican claims he wasn't privy to any inside information leading up to the sale of his stock in Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), the country's largest for-profit hospital chain founded by Frist's father, Thomas, and brother, Thomas Jr., weeks before (…)

- contributions / Edito, Hospital, Economy-budget, Parties, USA, Jason Leopold

Healthcare swept away

2005-09-24T17:51:59Z

By Derrick Z. Jackson
ONE OF THE most sordid stories to come out of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina was the discovery of 154 bodies in hospitals and nursing homes. They account for 21 percent of the currently counted fatalities in Louisiana. Despite the heroism of doctors and nurses, The New York Times wrote, ''the collapse of one of society's most basic covenants — to care for the helpless — suggests that the elderly and critically ill plummeted to the bottom of priority lists as (…)

- contributions / Hospital, Catastrophes, USA

Frist's HCA Stock Sale Being Investigated

2005-09-24T03:05:27Z

Posted: Friday, Sep 23, 2005 - 12:05:19 pm PDT By JONATHAN M. KATZ
WASHINGTON - The Securities and Exchange Commission and federal prosecutors are investigating Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's sale of stock in HCA Inc., the hospital operating company founded by his family.
In a statement released Friday, the Nashville-based company said federal prosecutors for the Southern District of New York issued a subpoena for documents HCA believes are related to the sale of its (…)

- contributions / Justice, Hospital, Economy-budget, USA

Delay Hypocrisy: The GOP Using The Schiavo Case For Political Gain

2005-03-22T00:09:12Z

This is a story of two people who could not be more different, while at the same time, be so alike. More importantly, it is a story about a whore of a politician who genuinely does not care about either, but shows it in completely different ways. This is a story about hypocrisy and how Tom Delay and the Republican Party embody that principle.
The first person in this sad story is named Terry Schiavo. Most people have heard about Mrs. Schiavo because she has been in the headlines on (…)

- contributions / Hospital, Governments, USA