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Health care workers are facing increased abuse in the hospital setting, making a recent move by the IWK Health Centre to buy bulletproof vests very welcome, says the head of the Nova Scotia Nurses Union. "I think safety in our hospitals is becoming more and more of an issue, for sure," union president Janet Hazelton said Friday. The regions largest womens and childrens hospital wants to buy 35 bulletproof and slash-proof vests for its security officers, and recently posted a tender on the provinces we

I think safety in our hospitals is becoming more and more of an issue, for sure   -Janet Hazelton

 

Miami Valley Hospital is preparing to relocate six clinics from its campus on Wyoming Street to a 19,000-square-foot building on South Ludlow Street. The hospital's primary care medicine clinic and other internal medicine-related clinics are scheduled to open Monday at 725 S. Ludlow St. The hospital has signed a 15-year lease for the Ludlow Street building, formerly the home of MedWork Occupational Health care. MedWork relocated to the former Delphi space on Cincinnati Street earlier this year.  

Manto Tshabalala-Msimang is back in hospital, but it's got nothing to do with her liver. The former health minister was admitted to the Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre yesterday and was expected to undergo a minor procedure. "It's not liver transplant-related at all," said hospital spokesman Vernon Kinnear.  

Children's Hospital says if it doesn't get the OK to expand, it will have to turn away sick kids. Children's and its neighbors are battling over the expansion plan, and now the Seattle City Council will be judge and jury. Right now, there's enough room for 250 kids at Children's Hospital.

We never know whether we are going to be spending the night in the hospital or not, because her situation is so fragile   -Jon Lane

 

Mudgee's new Medical Centre on Church Street near the Mudgee Hospital now has the roof completed on stage one of the 'state of the art' project.  

St. Cloud Hospital patients and visitors will have a new place to park beginning Monday. The hospital's northwest parking ramp will be ready for drivers then. CentraCare Health System says patients can enter off Sixth Avenue near 15th Street North.  

THE site of Moreton's new hospital has been announced - it will be built next to Fosseway Garden Centre on the A429 Stow Road. The National Health Service, in Gloucestershire, has announced the "health and social care campus" will be built on the site that was among three it was considering in partnership with local general practitioners.  

Mainzeal Property and Construction has won contracts for the $83 million redevelopment of Rotorua Hospital and the $16.5 million phase-one stage redevelopment of Bowen Hospital in Wellington.  

On a humid day this summer, in a parking lot at the long back wall of a gas station, Regina Holliday stood on a scaffold with her palette of red, black and blue and started painting a mural.