Health Care Jobs in Oregon

Coffee, a well known kick start for the day, has been a recent subject inmany studies about health, particularly regarding its positive effects. A newstudy by Harvard School of Public Health has found that the early morningantidote to being awake has definite effects on depression in women. Drinkingfour cups a day is enough to have the effect of a 20 percent reduction in riskof depression.Continue reading »...

Enroll America, a new non-profit organization, plans to create awareness andmore importantly, explain the benefits of health care coverage to Americans,particularly those currently without any health care insurance. Many nurses mayempathize with the core values of this initiative and probably can recall manycases where it applies. The new cross-sector campaign to encourage Americans toenroll in health insurance is ...

Everybody knows that health care fraud is pretty much a part of thefurniture in the health industry. Apparently, so do the Feds. A massivenationwide sweep caught 91 people allegedly responsible for 5 million worthof fraud. That’s small beer compared to the estimated amount of health carefraud, which is “-234 billion per year” according to the FBI. This mightexplain the fantastic costs for everything, mightn�...

Anything that reduces readmissions to hospital by 30 percent deservesrecognition. New heart failure programs are being administered by nurses andthey’re making a huge difference. What’s really stunning is the basis of thenew programs–providing more information to patients. There’s quite a history tothis saga, and it makes the point that quality care is always going to make abig difference.Continue reading �...