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Southern Chicago Healthcare Provider, Riverside Healthcare, Launches New Website

June 30, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

KANKAKEE, IL, Jun 29 (MARKET WIRE) —
Riverside Healthcare is proud to have their new website up and running.
Current users of www.RiversideHealthcare.org will notice that the new
website has maintained the overall look and feel of the original site and
also offers new information in an easy to navigate format. As one of the
top hospitals in Illinois, this website only makes Riverside’s services
that much better.

With just a quick visit to this website you will see that they offer a
wide range of services online. This Chicago south suburbs healthcare
provider allows you to find a physician online with a basic search.
Whether you need a dentist, family doctor, oncologist or even a plastic
surgeon, this website can help you find one. If you need to schedule a
mammogram or bone density scan, you can make this appointment directly
online. There is no need to make telephone call and wait on hold anymore.
Simply logon to get started today.

We all know that paying our medical bills can get hectic at times.
Through Riverside Healthcare’s new website you can pay your medical bills
with their bill payment center. This system makes paying your bills
simple and convenient.

If you are not a patient at the hospital, but know someone staying at the
southern Chicago healthcare center, there are services online that can
help you as well. This website is great for those people who live out of
town and can’t make it to the hospital to be there in person. You can go
online and order flowers to be sent to your loved one. You can choose
from a wide range of beautiful arrangements that will be delivered
directly to their room. The website also offers access to The Market
Place, where you can shop for all different types of medical goods. If
you need books, gifts, strollers, or vitamins, this website has it all.
One of the most popular features of the website is the online nursery. If
someone you are close to just had a baby you can access the online
nursery through their website as well.

Riverside Healthcare’s new website has something to offer everyone. You
can visit the website every day to read up on the latest medical news.
www.RiversideHealthcare.org is just what the doctor ordered!

Media Contact:
Carl Maronich
815-935-7256
Carl-Maronich@riversidehealthcare.net

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Southern Chicago Healthcare Provider, Riverside Healthcare, Launches New Website

June 30, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Media Contact:
Carl Maronich
815-935-7256
Carl-Maronich@riversidehealthcare.net

Australia’s Healthscope gets 2 more takeover offers

May 31, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

(Reuters) – Australian hospital operator Healthscope (HSP.AX) said on Monday it has got two more takeover offers valuing the company at more than A$1.84 billion ($1.56 billion) as a bidding war intensifies.

Deals

The offer price of A$5.80 a share was 0.9 percent higher than an existing offer for the group and a 10.9 per cent premium to Friday’s closing share price.

The shares rose 5.7 percent to A$5.53 in early trade, a 4.6 percent discount to the latest offer.

Healthscope in a statement advised shareholders to take no action and added it would take several weeks to evaluate the offer.

Last week, a source said private equity firm Blackstone Group LP (BX.N) had joined TPG and Carlyle in their bid at A$5.75 a share.

Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts was also planning to lodge a bid for the company, media reports said Monday.

At least three analysts have put valuations of between A$5.80 and A$6.70 on Healthscope if the company’s hospitals and pathology arms were broken up.

The bid would be the largest private equity bid in Australia since 2008.

(Reporting by Michael Smith; Editing by Ed Davies)

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Pakistan mosque attacks toll reaches 30, official says

May 29, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

At least 30 people were killed in attacks on two mosques belonging to a minority sect in the northeastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Friday, an ambulance service said.

Rizwan Naseer, the ambulance service’s director general, told Reuters 30 bodies had been taken to hospitals in Lahore, Pakistan’s cultural capital.

Gunmen opened fire shortly after Friday prayers and threw what could have been grenades at two mosques attended by Ahmadis, a minority sect in predominantly Muslim Pakistan.

(Editing by Chris Allbritton and Ron Popeski)

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Sean Penn urges help for Haiti hospitals

May 21, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

London, May 21 (ANI): Sean Penn has called for more assistance at hospitals in Haiti to help the earthquake-ravaged nation deal with the upcoming hurricane season next month.

The ‘Milk’ star has been constantly on the lookout to ensure that the devastated people’s nation receives all the help they can get following the tremor, which killed hundreds of thousands of citizens in January this year.

Penn drew U.S. Senate committee’s attention towards the healthcare Haiti needs on an immediate basis, as several hospital have been closed down – and he fears the nation will be overrun with emergencies once hurricane season begins.

“In many cases, the bureaucracy of international aid is protecting people to death. I come here today in the hope that we will address with bold clarity the razor”s edge upon which Haiti lies,” The Daily Express quoted him as saying. (ANI)

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Concerns hospital centralisation could compromise regional areas

May 19, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

There are plans to stop the State Government’s plan to run Tasmania’s hospitals out of Hobart.

The Government has admitted it is leaning towards a centralised system, rather than the locally run hospitals preferred by the Federal Government.

Independent member for the Western Tiers Greg Hall says he will introduce a motion in the Upper House opposing the system.

He says there is a danger regional Tasmanians will miss out on health services under a centralised system.

“If the decision making is centralised in Hobart, the concern is that the services will be centralised, which means that a lot of people from the northern part of the state might then have to travel to Hobart for medical treatment, and I think that we always have to remember that Tasmania is a very decentralised state,” he said.

Mr Hall says he will oppose the plan.

“When Parliament sits again in budget week, I will move a notice of motion that if the current position is not reversed, then it ought to be reversed.”

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Three killed, 12 injured in Kabul suicide attack

May 18, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Kabul, May 18 (ANI): At least three persons were killed and scores other sustained injuries in a suicide attack which purportedly targeted US vehicles in the heavily fortified government area in Kabul on Tuesday.

According to initial reports, a suicide bomber rammed his explosives laden vehicle into another vehicle near the Afghan Energy and Water Ministry.

Abdul Ghafor Sayedzada, chief of Kabul police’s criminal investigation unit, said the blast was believed to have been targeted at US vehicles present in the area, which houses several government buildings and other important installations.

At least 12 injured persons have been admitted to hospitals across the city till reports last came in.

Unconfirmed reports said the Taliban has taken the responsibility for the suicide attack.

More details are awaited. (ANI)

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Scientific breakthrough could offer melanoma cure

May 16, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

London, May 16 (ANI): A long-awaited jab, being hailed as a scientific breakthrough which could offer a cure for cancer, is to be tested on the first British patients within weeks.

According to researchers, it can reverse and even cure melanoma, one of the deadliest forms of the disease, most commonly associated with skin cancer, reports The Daily Express.

Professor Lindy Durrant of Nottingham University, who is heading research into the treatment, said: “This is huge. We could now have a vaccine that can target a tumour and kill it without damage to surrounding healthy tissues or cells.

“In the short term, this could cure some patients with the disease and in the long term the jab could be used to prevent people developing it in the first place.”

Trials will begin at hospitals in Manchester, Nottingham and Newcastle.

Brainchild of vaccine company Scancell, the treatment will be given to patients with advanced skin cancer which has spread to other parts of the body, and also to those in the earlier stages of the disease. (ANI)

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India steps in to tackle Lankan drug shortage

May 15, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Colombo, May 15 — India has stepped in to help Sri Lanka overcome a severe shortage of medicines including the fast depleting stock of saline in hospitals across the country. A worried Ministry of Healthcare and Nutrition had to request the Sri Lankan air force (SLAF) to fly special missions to India to pick up bulks of saline bottles to supply to hospitals and health care units in cities, towns and villages. A team of senior officials from the healthcare ministry is also expected to fly to Mumbai to speed up the process of acquiring stocks of dozens of categories of life saving medicine as well.

“The first two flights came back with 27,750 bottles of saline each. The third flight from Mumbai is expected to bring back another 25,000 bottles of saline,” Healthcare Ministry’s C Samarawikrama said.

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36 students injured in UP school bus mishap

May 11, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Lucknow, May 11 (ANI): At least 36 students were injured when their school bus fell into a deep gorge in Uttar Pradesh”s Ambedkar Nagar District on Tuesday.

According to sources, the bus was carrying students of the Radiant Central Children”s Academy and fell into a gorge in the Jalalpur area, about 200 km from Lucknow.

The injured have been admitted to different hospitals in Ambedkar Nagar and Faizabad Districts. (ANI)

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Patient, doc knocked out by giant lamp during surgery

May 10, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

London, May 10 (ANI): It has emerged that a hospital patient woke up requiring more surgery than he bargained for after a giant lamp fell on him as he underwent surgery.

The patient was sedated at the time of the incident, but the surgery had to be halted as the surgeon performing the op also suffered concussion and had to receive treatment himself.

When the patient came round he found he needed even more treatment for a split lip and facial injuries.

Health chiefs have launched an urgent probe into why the 30lb lamp broke free as it was moved during the op, and all other lamps at Glan Clwyd Hospital in North Wales and neighbouring hospitals have been checked for similar faults.

“We are very sorry that this incident occurred and that one of our patients suffered an injury as a result,” the Sun quoted a spokesman as saying.

“The surgeon has since contacted the patient at home to explain what occurred and offered our sincere apologies.

“Investigations revealed that a screw had worked loose on the swivel bracket that holds the lamp,” he added.

The patient had the operation a week later. (ANI)

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Bangkok blasts kill one, injure 75 – Thai media

April 23, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

A series of grenade blasts that rocked Bangkok’s business district on Friday killed at least one person and wounded 75, hospitals and the Thai media said.

Five M-79 grenades hit an area packed with heavily armed troops and studded with banks, office towers and hotels. Four of the wounded had serious injuries, including two foreigners, according to witnesses, hospital officials and an army spokesman.

(Additional reporting by Nopporn Wong-Anan; Writing by Jason Szep; Editing by Bill Tarrant)

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Cochlear implantation in kids linked to improved language skills

April 21, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Washington, April 21 (ANI): Children with hearing loss can benefit immensely if they receive a cochlear implant before 18 months of age, a new study has revealed.

The research, led by Johns Hopkins scientists, has appeared in the April 21 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

The surgery involves placing a small electronic device into the ear that bypasses the inner ear”s damaged nerve cells and transmits sound signals to the brain.

The scientists followed 188 children, ages 6 months to 5 years, with profound hearing loss for three years after receiving cochlear implants at six U.S. hospitals.

They tracked the children”s newly emerging ability to recognize speech after the implant, and compared their levels of language development to those of 97 same-age children with normal hearing.

While speech and language skills improved in all children regardless of age after they received a cochlear implant, age emerged as a powerful predictor in just how much improvement was seen.

Lead investigator John Niparko, director of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery at Johns Hopkins, said: “We identified a clear pattern where implantation before 18 months of age conferred a much greater benefit than later implantation, allowing children to catch up fast, sometimes to nearly normal levels.

“Delaying intervention until a child loses every last bit of hearing deprives the brain of much-needed sound and speech stimulation that is needed to develop language.”

Each year of delay, the investigators say, can put a child a year behind in language development.

Therefore all young infants with suspected hearing loss, and those with family history, should be monitored vigilantly and referred for treatment immediately.

While the children in the study never reached the language levels of their hearing counterparts, those who received cochlear implants developed a decidedly better ability to understand and speak than they would have without the device, the researchers found.

When researchers looked at children of all ages, their ability to understand speech grew twice as fast as it would have been expected to without the device.

Their ability to communicate back, either with words or other age-appropriate modes of expression, grew nearly one and a half times faster than it would have without an implant.

Children who received a cochlear implant before age 18 months nearly caught up with their normal-hearing counterparts over the subsequent three years.

Children who received implants after age 3 had language gaps that corresponded directly to the length of delay before receiving the implant.

The study also showed that children implanted before age 18 months managed to reach speech and language developmental milestones much faster than those who received their implants later, revealing gaps between a child”s chronological and language ages.

Niparko said: “The impact of early cochlear implantation was greatly augmented in children whose caregivers use language to engage them.

“And we cannot overestimate the importance of caregiver communication with babies at a very early age, whether they have some degree of hearing loss or normal hearing.” (ANI)

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Keneally adds to Rudd’s health woes

April 17, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Kevin Rudd now appears to have a fairly stark choice when it comes to his hospitals funding plan; either alter it before the COAG meeting on Monday or accept that he will not get the states on board.

New South Wales has dealt the latest and biggest blow to the Prime Minister’s hospitals dream.

Premier Kristina Keneally is refusing to give up control of a third of the state’s GST revenue to the Commonwealth.

New South Wales is demanding instead that state and federal funds be pooled and controlled by the states.

Ms Keneally is also demanding a lot more money immediately.

“I will not sign up to a deal that disadvantages New South Wales taxpayers,” she said.

Mr Rudd says he will not be issuing a blank cheque to the states and if he does not get the deal he wants he will execute his threat of a referendum on the issue at the federal election.

But he is not going to get what he wants from the premiers and Ms Keneally has ensured a deal is not going to happen unless Mr Rudd performs a major backdown.

“I can support nearly 90 per cent of the proposals put forward by the Prime Minister in his healthcare reform proposal. We are nearly there,” she said.

In reality, the Prime Minister is not nearly there at all.

The NSW Premier has now joined her Victorian and West Australian colleagues in rejecting Mr Rudd’s attempt to claw back 30 per cent of the states’ and territories’ GST revenue.

That is the key part of the hospitals plan.

“New South Wales is willing to dedicate but not to have the Commonwealth retain up to a third of our GST for health spending,” Ms Keneally said.

“This is an important technical distinction.”

As with Victoria and Western Australia, New South Wales wants to pool state and federal funds to pay for hospital care.

But Ms Keneally will not be handing any money over to Mr Rudd first.

“The state would put its money into the fund, the Commonwealth would put its money into the fund. The fund would be administered by the state and the payments would come out from the fund to the local hospital networks,” she said.

More money

And there is more and it comes at a cost. For Mr Rudd to secure New South Wales support, he will have to give the state an extra $670 million over the next four years.

“[This is] to ensure that New South Wales is no worse off as we implement the Commonwealth’s health reforms. We can’t wait for four years to see new real growth money coming into this system,” Ms Keneally said.

But Mr Rudd wants to channel Commonwealth money directly to local hospital networks.

“On Monday COAG has to do more than simply come up with a plan for money, it has to come up with a plan for reform because the blank cheque theory of health and hospitals doesn’t work,” he said.

“We’ve got to fix the system and then fund the system for the future, more hospital beds, more doctors, more nurses.”

The Prime Minister has threatened to take the matter to a referendum at the election if he can’t get a deal with the premiers and an in-principle deal at the COAG meeting will not be enough.

“We are looking for an inter-governmental agreement and I’ve been very clear about that. Let’s not shilly shally around this. No ifs, no buts, no maybes. We want an inter-governmental agreement,” he said.

Opposition health spokesman Peter Dutton says Mr Rudd is looking to squeeze every last bit of political opportunity out of the issue.

“He may see a referendum as a political outcome that’s advantageous to himself, but in the end people should know that Kevin Rudd is playing politics with health at the moment,” he said.

“The Prime Minister’s put forward a proposal which is changing day by day because it wasn’t properly put together in the first place. There are bits and pieces.

“There are lots of negotiations going on behind the scenes and I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a qualified agreement at COAG on Monday because, in the end, Labor mates will stick together.”

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No huff and puff: Rann defends health negotiations

April 13, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

South Australian Premier Mike Rann has taken a swipe at other states over the Federal Government’s proposed hospital funding plan.

Victoria has criticised the Commonwealth’s latest promise under the plan of $739 million for aged care services.

The New South Wales Premier is also hesitant about accepting the overall proposal.

Mr Rann says, instead of public grandstanding, he has been negotiating behind the scenes and supports the deal in principle.

“What we’ve seen is a bit of huffing and puffing and it’s all about who’s running which empire what we want is the best deal for hospitals, the best deals for patients ultimately involves more money,” he said.

“So what I’ve been negotiating for is an emergency department guarantee, extra money for primary health care and money for aged care.”

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WA could benefit from extra health funds

April 13, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

The WA Health Minister Kim Hames says the State’s hospitals are well placed to benefit from Federal Government moves to cut waiting times at hospital emergency departments.

The Prime Minister Kevin Rudd yesterday announced plans to inject half a billion dollars for emergency departments who treat, admit or refer patients within four hours.

WA is currently the only state to have implemented a four hour rule program.

Dr Hames says the proposed funding recognises WA’s innovative approach to health care, but he didn’t comment on whether the funds would be enough to entice him to accept the Prime Minister’s health policy.

Mr Rudd wants the states and territories to approve the health plan when they meet at next week’s COAG meeting.

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Rudd to announce emergency ward funding

April 12, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is to detail plans for $500 million in funding to help cut waiting times in public hospital emergency wards.

The money will be given to the states and territories if agreement is reached on his health reform package.

Under the plan, hospitals will be given $150 million to help improve services in emergency departments from July this year.

Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon says another $350 million will be allocated to hospitals that meet targets to cut waiting times.

“This is providing extra resources to our hard-working doctors and nurses in our emergency departments to ensure they can meet a new four hour target for people to be admitted to hospital, referred to follow-up treatment or treated and discharged,” she said.

It will be phased in over four years and will start with the patients who have the most urgent cases.

Ms Roxon says Government figures show that about one in three patients wait for more than eight hours in emergency wards for treatment.

Mr Rudd is expected to release more details about the proposal later this morning in Queensland.

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NSW Govt urged to back health shake-up

April 10, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

A New South Wales mid-north coast federal MP is urging the State Government to support the national heath and hospitals reform plan.

The appeal was made to NSW Health Minister Carmel Tebutt in Port Macquarie yesterday.

The Minister was opening an expansion of the base hospital’s emergency department.

Independent Lyne MP Rob Oakeshott met Ms Tebbutt and told her that the proposed structural and financial reforms were good for the mid-north coast.

“For a growing regional area this structural and financial reform on the table to date works for us and will address many of the issues that confront us,” he said.

“We do have a bed shortage and we’re not going anywhere fast until we address that.

“So in the short-term if we can get more beds we’ll maximise what is being proposed at a federal level.”

Mr Oakeshott asked for the state to make short-term capital investments in extra hospital beds.

“The slight expansion of the emergency department it is yet another step along the way to getting significant increases in bed numbers,” he said.

“But we all want the structural and financial reform that’s happening at the moment in the Commonweath/state debate to really be maximised on the ground.”

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Patients will suffer if funding agreement not reached

April 1, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

The Northern Territory Chief Minister says patients will suffer if the states and the Commonwealth can’t agree over hospital funding and the Federal Government attempts a forced take over of the health system.

Paul Henderson believes hospitals should continue to be run by the states, but indications from the national Treasurers’ conference last week are that the Commonwealth’s plan will be good for the Territory.

Mr Henderson says it is important an agreement is reached at the next COAG meeting to avoid a Federal takeover.

“Any Federal Government that was just to take over the health system of the nation in those circumstances would be absolutely foolish in my opinion,” Mr Henderson said.

“Because at the end of the day any transfer of power would have to happen in a cooperative way, not an antagonistic way, because the only people who would suffer would be the patients in the system.”

He said Territory Treasurer Delia Lawrie came back from a national conference last Friday pleased with what the plan had to offer.

“Delia Lawrie has come back from that meeting with advice to me that it’s actually looking like a pretty good deal for the Northern Territory.

“So we’ve still got a fair amount of work to do before COAG on April 19th.

“But I go into this looking at an opportunity for the Northern Territory as long as our indigenous disadvantage is absolutely catered for.”

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Fraser urges all governments to back health overhaul

March 27, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Queensland Treasurer Andrew Fraser has urged his state and territory counterparts to sign up to the Federal Government’s overhaul of health funding.

Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan today held a briefing on the proposal to take back 30 per cent of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) revenue to fund hospitals.

Mr Fraser says while there is more work to do, Queensland supports the changes.

“This is best for the nation,” he said.

“I’ve said before and I’m happy to say again that I think all states and territories should get on board with it.

“I think that if we’re serious about dealing with the challenges of the health system as a nation then this is the way forward.”

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Southern Chicago Healthcare Provider, Riverside Healthcare, Launches New Website

Southern Chicago Healthcare Provider, Riverside Healthcare, Launches New Website

Pakistan mosque attacks toll reaches 30, official says

Sean Penn urges help for Haiti hospitals

Concerns hospital centralisation could compromise regional areas

Three killed, 12 injured in Kabul suicide attack

Scientific breakthrough could offer melanoma cure

India steps in to tackle Lankan drug shortage

36 students injured in UP school bus mishap

Patient, doc knocked out by giant lamp during surgery

Bangkok blasts kill one, injure 75 – Thai media

Cochlear implantation in kids linked to improved language skills

Keneally adds to Rudd’s health woes

No huff and puff: Rann defends health negotiations

WA could benefit from extra health funds

Rudd to announce emergency ward funding

NSW Govt urged to back health shake-up

Patients will suffer if funding agreement not reached

Fraser urges all governments to back health overhaul

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