Moses Cone Proposes Cancer Center Expansion
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Moses Cone Health System has applied with state regulators to expand the Regional Cancer Center at Wesley Long Hospital in Greensboro.
The center provides chemotherapy, radiation therapy, nutritional services and community education. The proposed $15 million expansion calls for a 20,000 square foot, two-story addition.
The additional space will allow for renovation of 18,000 square feet and [...]
Wb Approves Grant For Burkina Faso Health, Education Project
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The World Bank on Thursday approved a grant and credit in 20 million U.S. dollars for health and education projects in the Republic of Burkina Faso.
The amount consists of 15 million dollars in additional grants for the Health Sector Support and Multisectoral AIDS project and a5-million-dollar credit for the International Institute for Water and Environmental [...]
Kentucky Homeplace Honored
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The National Rural Health Association (NRHA) has presented Kentucky Homeplace, University of Kentucky Center for Excellence in Rural Health, with its 2008 Outstanding Program Award.
The initiative has linked more than 74,000 rural Kentucky residents with medical, social and environmental services, provided more than 1.5 million services and accessed nearly $106 million worth of medications and [...]
5 Chicago schools to share 18 million grant
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Andrew Mooney, executive director of LISC/Chicago, said each school will determine its own program based on the needs of students. Support services offered to parents will vary as well. For example, during tax season, a school might offer tax-preparation service so that parents can get help claiming the earned income tax credit.
“Each of these schools [...]
Just the job for learning
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“Employer engagement” - or getting employers to foot more of the bill for higher education - is the policy catchphrase of the moment, and one the government is pushing.Professor David Eastwood, chief executive of the England funding council, Hefce, announced %26pound;105m to back it up in February, telling the Conference of Northern Universities it was [...]
9M FCC grant will expand Utahs telemedicine
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The Federal Communications Commission has given the University of Utah $9 million to expand the Utah Telehealth Network, which uses technology to connect doctors and patients in rural areas with medical specialists in the state’s urban hubs.
The existing network has more than 30 sites, including [...]
Putin#39;s Chosen Successor Medvedev Starts Campaign (Update2)
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Jan. 11 (Bloomberg) — Dmitry Medvedev, the candidate
picked by Vladimir Putin to replace him as Russian president,
opened his election campaign, touring the westernmost territory
of Kaliningrad and the Arctic port of Murmansk.
Medvedev, [...]
Men at work
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Toddlers are climbing, swinging and chasing each other on a Saturday morning in the sunny garden of a children’s centre. Some are viewing the landscape from their dads’ shoulders. In the kitchen, young men are sitting around a low table on tiny chairs, chatting and laughing, the babies on their laps poking their fingers into [...]
Healthier students a computer click away
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At the start of the school year, Bristol Township students are checked to see if they are maintaining a healthy weight. Their parents, though, usually don’t get those results until summer vacation starts.
School nurses find that collecting and processing body mass index results for more than 6,000 students, as state law requires, means they [...]
