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| Patients First Advance: |
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Featured Stories, 2005
| New
England Sinai Hospital & Rehabilitation Center |
| New England Sinai Hospital & Rehabilitation
Center has employed a number of strategies to maintain a committed
and qualified workforce to care for patients. The nursing department
eliminated mandatory overtime four years ago because it was
a major issue that concerned staff. |
| New
England Baptist Reaches Out & Retains |
| New England Baptist Hospital,
like nearly all other hospitals across the state and country,
faces workforce shortage in the usual areas
– nursing, radiology technicians, and pharmacists. And Baptist
recognizes the need to be creative to deal with the issue. |
| New England Rehab. Builds from Within |
| HEALTHSOUTH New England Rehabilitation
Hospital, confronting the nursing shortage that is afflicting
providers across the state and country, found that its best
recruitment tool was the nurses it already employed. |
| Brockton Hospital Grows its Own |
| Dr. Carol Bortman,
dean of Brockton Hospital’s School of Nursing, says the
hospital has a surefire way for dealing with the national nursing
shortage – grow your own. |
| Athol’s
Loan-Work Program a Success |
| Athol Memorial Hospital (AMH),
licensed for 33 beds and serving nine communities, is always
faced with the problem of filling its various vacancies from
a very sparse and rural population base. |
| Lawrence Memorial Urges Critical
Thinking |
| Lawrence Memorial Hospital, part
of Hallmark Health System, is creating a very supportive environment
for its nursing staff. |
| CHA Works with UMass On Nursing
Program |
| Cambridge Health Alliance has
found a way to encourage nursing students to consider the Alliance
as an employer, while providing faculty for UMass Boston’s
Bachelor of Science in Nursing program. |
| Hallmark Empowers Its Nursing
Staff |
| Hallmark Health System, comprised
of Lawrence Memorial and Melrose-Wakefield hospitals, provides
its new and re-entering nurses a tremendous level of guidance,
mentoring, support, and incentives to help create a corps of
critically thinking caregivers who are encouraged to advance
their hospital careers. |
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