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Grand Rounds September
Johnsen to become new CEO at St. Joseph’s
HOT SPRINGS – Timothy J. Johnsen will become President and CEO of St. Joseph’s Mercy Health Center on January 1, 2008, following the planned retirement of current CEO Randall J. Fale, FACHE, at the end of the year.
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Hiring Nurses with Geriatric Training
Tough Goal to Meet
Senior housing options from assisted living to nursing homes all face a similar challenge: finding nurses with a desire and the special training needed today to care for America’s aging population.
“It’s really difficult for three reasons: No. 1, there are not that many nurses in general who are trained geriatrically. That does not mean that they have to be geriatric nurses, but that in their curriculum they...
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
Palliative Care Specialty
Coming into Its Own
End-of-life care services have been growing steadily since the first hospice was founded in Connecticut just 33 years ago. But palliative care services are now taking off in a big way, both nationally and within the state.
JENNIFER BOULDEN |
Physician Spotlight: Dr. David Pruitt
HOT SPRINGS – Dr. David Pruitt wasn’t always sure he wanted to be an oncologist.
“The service then was a bunch of people dying from the complications of immune-suppression from multiple rounds of chemotherapy,” he said. “Most of them were my age; it was pretty brutal, and that’s what I thought cancer was all about, so I changed my mind. I went into family practice.”
JEREMY PEPPAS |
Revised HIV Testing Guidelines Challenge Doctors
If physicians across the state comply with the Center for Disease Control’s new guidelines for HIV testing, then the good news is that doctors will catch countless new cases in the early stages and reduce the spread of the disease. The bad news is that it will strain the already limited state resources and require that more physicians become comfortable with and knowledgeable about treating and referring AIDS patients.
JENNIFER BOULDEN |
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