SOCH to Sponsor Memorial Service for Braddock Hospital

     

    In Loving Memory of Braddock Hospital – June 27, 1906 – January 31, 2010
    BRADDOCK, Pa., March 18, 2011 –  On Saturday, March 19, 2011 from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. at the Immanuel Lutheran Church on Fifth Street in Braddock, PA, Save Our Community Hospitals (SOCH) is sponsoring a memorial ser…

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    Laugh with Laffy Laffalot

     

    COSTA MESA, Calif., Feb. 2, 2011 — Laffy Laffalot, with its bright orange body, big engaging eyes and smile, features 20 pre-programmed buttons with hilarious belly laughs, silly giggles, snorts and more. Laughter is contagious, and Laffy Laffalot gets everyone in a room laughing instantly wit…

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    ICU Nurses Offered Tool to Prevent Deadly Medication Mistakes

     

    GUERNEVILLE, Calif., Nov. 9, 2009 — Hospital Intensive Care Units are among the most expensive costs in the U.S. health care industry. Intensive Care Units represent 10% of acute care beds, costing billions of dollars annually.
    Patients in ICU areas are typically very ill; their problems can be c…

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    New Survey Finds Doctors and Nurses Behaving Badly

     

    TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 3, 2009 — Screaming matches in front of bewildered patients. Angry surgeons hurling instruments across the operating room. Treachery and backstabbing as physicians and nurses try to undermine one another.
    It may sound like a script from a television medical drama, but these ki…

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