Wenatchee Valley College has received $162,000 in state funding to serve 36 additional students in the Rural Nursing Expansion Project, which began in 2004 under the Nurses for Tomorrow campaign. The funding will allow the college to continue offering a spring-start class for nursing students. The
Source: Wenatchee Business Journal
Posted: 2005-12-10
Byline: John Moritz Dec. 8--AUSTIN -- The chairman of the Texas Lottery Commission said Wednesday that politics will play no part in whether a powerful ex-lawmaker is hired to run the beleaguered state agency. Former state Rep. Talmadge Heflin, a Houston Republican who lost his bid for a 12th term
Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, Texas) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2005-12-10
Byline: JULIE WHELDON HOSPITALS are paying up to [pounds sterling]1,100 a day for stand-in nurses despite a deepening cash crisis. Last week, the Government admitted that health trusts are [pounds sterling]620million in the red. But it emerged yesterday that some temporary nurses cost the
Source: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Posted: 2005-12-10
Byline: PATRICK SAWER HOSPITALS are having to pay up to [pounds sterling]1,100 a day for stand-in nurses despite facing a chronic cash crisis. It has emerged that some temporary nurses cost the equivalent of [pounds sterling]88 an hour amid widespread staff shortages. The row over the amount spent
Source: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Posted: 2005-12-10
Struggling family faces loss of health, home and job Byline: Joe Holleman; ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Edition: Third Edition Section: Everyday Memo: 100 NEEDIEST CASES Case No. 46 K and T are the parents of three children, 2, 6 and 8 years old, and the past few years have been a series of setbacks and
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Posted: 2005-12-10
ON the subject of lighting, have some outdoor floodlights installed, for added security and protection on those long, dark nights. But remember, the law says all significant domestic electrical work must be done by a qualified electrician
Source: Birmingham Mail (England)
Posted: 2005-12-10
MANY workers would return to their home town if they were offered a decent job, a new survey indicated yesterday. A poll of 13,500 job seekers by website totaljobs. com found that Northern Ireland, Scottish and Welsh people were most likely to return to their roots. One in four said a desire to be
Source: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
Posted: 2005-12-10
Byline: By nigel Stirling A home improvement company expects to recruit 50 workers at its Tyneside HQ as it increases sales by 33pc with a wealth of new ideas in the next year. Pennine Homes aim to increase turnover from pounds 15m to pounds 20m inside 12 months as it boosts its commercial and
Source: The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Posted: 2005-12-10
Everything is in place. The clinical trials are going smoothly and the data is looking good. After years of caution, the research scientists are beginning to sound confident. FDA approval--and the subsequent launch--are within sight. But the marketing team, aware of the high expectations of
Source: Medical Marketing & Media
Posted: 2005-12-10
Dateline: LONDON People walk pass a Boots pharmacy on Oxford street in central London, Monday, Oct. 3, 2005. The boards of Alliance UniChem PLC and Boots PLC said Monday they had agreed to merge. The new company, to be called Alliance Boots, boasts combined annual sales of 13 billion pounds (19.1
May 08, 2005 (Herald Sun - ABIX via COMTEX) Australian retailer, Woolworths, wants a trial of pharmacies in its supermarkets. CEO, Roger Corbett, wants permission from the Australian Government to undertake a trial in five supermarkets for 18 months. There has been resistance to allowing pharmacies
Source: Australasian Business Intelligence
Posted: 2005-12-10
Byline: Mark Trumbull Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor FLINT, MICH. -- For Mary Aremia-Van Alst, the happiest day of her 10 years working at Delphi Corp. is easy to pinpoint: It was the day she got the job. I was ecstatic, she says, referring to that day in January 1995. The auto-parts
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Posted: 2005-12-10
Plans to create a spectacular pounds 130m new office quarter in Cardiff which could bring up to 5,000 jobs to the city were unveiled today. The masterplan involves the creation of almost 700,000sq ft of prime offices with parking on six-acres of land - part of which overlooks the waterfront - at
Source: South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
Posted: 2005-12-10
In response to a CMS proposed rule that would establish guidance for the new Medicare prescription drug benefit, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) and the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) have each suggested guiding principles to use in implementing medication therapy
Dateline: TOKYO, Dec. 8 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING INFO) Audio equipment manufacturer Pioneer Corp. said Thursday it will eliminate 2,600 jobs, or about 8 percent of its global workforce, and scale back its plasma display panel television business as part of a corporate restructuring plan. The company
Source: Kyodo World News Service
Posted: 2005-12-10
Dateline: TOKYO, Dec. 8 (Kyodo) _ (EDS: TO BE LED) Audio equipment manufacturer Pioneer Corp. said Thursday it will eliminate 2,600 jobs, or about 8 percent of its global workforce, and scale back its plasma display panel television business as part of a corporate restructuring plan. The company
Source: Kyodo World News Service
Posted: 2005-12-10
Byline: PAUL KEALY HAVING been all the rage to get the Portsmouth job for the past few weeks, new Pompey boss Harry Redknapp is now all the rage to lose it again. Coral say their 5-2 about Redknapp leaving by the end of 2006 has been greedily snapped up by their telephone clients and now go 7-4.
Source: The Racing Post (London, England)
Posted: 2005-12-10