Nursing

Police are investigating after a nursing home resident was found in a ditch in her wheelchair outside of Ellijay, Ga.-based Gilmer Nursing Home and pronounced dead in the hospital the next day, according to WGCL.

Chicago-based Holy Cross Hospital is planning to close its 34-bed inpatient rehabilitation unit due to a lack of demand for those services, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic plans to close Lutz Wing, its 40-bed skilled nursing home in Fairmont, Minn., according to a Sentinel report.

Sasha DuBois, RN. Nurse Administrator at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston). Ms. DuBois was the inaugural Mairead Hickey Leadership Fellow in the department of nursing at Brigham and Women’s Hospital before becoming the nurse administrator. She serves on the National Black…

Jerome Dayao. Chief Nursing Officer of Arrowhead Regional Medical Center (Colton, Calif.). Since joining Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in 2013, Mr. Dayao has driven several transformational changes in the hospital’s nursing department. He spearheaded efforts to educate and develop charge nurse…

CHI Health Good Samaritan in Kearney, Neb., has closed its transitional care unit after struggling to fill open nursing positions, according to NTV.

Law enforcement officials said a convicted murderer held a nursing assistant and a corrections officer hostage with a makeshift weapon at Joliet, Ill.-based Presence St. Joseph Medical Center Wednesday after the inmate was taken from an Illinois prison to the hospital, Chicago Tribune reports.

North Shore Medical Center in Salem, Mass., part of Boston-based Partners HealthCare, is planning to close down its inpatient pediatric unit, according to a Salem News report. Hospital officials gave reasons for the closure at a Massachusetts Department of Public…

In a major step toward the recognition of advanced practice nurses' ability to improve access to quality care, the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has changed its regulations to permit full-practice authority for nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists and…

Page West, RN. Senior Vice President and Chief Nurse Executive of Dignity Health (San Francisco). As senior vice president and chief nurse executive of Dignity Health, Ms. West oversees nursing at 39 hospitals, yet still manages to add a personal…