This year Nursing Assistants’ Week is observed June11 – 18. National Nursing Assistants’ Week is held each year to celebrate and honor the hard work of all Nursing Assistants, who are important providers in various healthcare settings. Nursing Assistants Week focuses on ways nursing assistants make a difference in the lives of the people in [...]

VNA Hidden Treasures is gearing up for a busy August month. In addition to the daily manager’s specials, the store will be participating in the Miracle Mile Sidewalk sale, August 14th and 15th. Open normal business hours, customers will receive 20% off storewide, along with special sidewalk deals. Free blood pressure screenings will also be [...]

The health system expands relationship with addition of claims management and charge capture services
MedAssets, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDAS) today announced that St.Vincent Health of Indianapolis, Ind., has expanded its use of MedAssets’ Revenue Cycle Management products and services to further improve its financial performance through better contract management, charge capture and recovery and claims management processes.
St.Vincent [...]

Developing and developed countries across the Pacific Rim are adopting biotech solutions to cut greenhouse gas emissions, efficiently utilize resources, and jumpstart economic growth. The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) today announced the sessions and speaker presentations to be delivered at the 2009 Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy, to be held Nov. 8-11, [...]

U.S. discount, grocery and restaurant chains are hiring a larger percentage of job applicants than seven months ago, signaling confidence the economy may be improving, software maker Kronos Inc. said.
Kronos analyzed the 8.9 million job applications received by 68 retailers in the first seven months of the year. In July, 2.99 of every 100 applications [...]

Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. left his suite at Manhattan’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last Sept. 15 after a sleepless night, feeling he’d done all he could to minimize the damage from that morning’s collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., aides said.
At meetings concluded the previous evening at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Paulson [...]

The Newport Group has been selected by Commonwealth Financial Network® to deliver industry-leading retirement plan strategies. Commonwealth, a national independent broker/dealer, has launched its new advisory retirement platform, Retirement Consulting Services, and has selected Newport as a recordkeeper of choice.
With the support of the firm’s Retirement Consulting Services group, Commonwealth’s financial advisors can offer their [...]

In January 2008, when Andrew Cockburn and his wife Leslie started making a documentary about the subprime mortgage crisis, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was above 13,000, the U.S. unemployment rate was under 5 percent and Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns were still big names on Wall Street.
During the next 11 months, the Dow plunged [...]