MINNEAPOLIS – If you’re having a heart attack, you may not need an emergency room at all, according to a groundbreaking study at United Hospital in St. Paul, Minn.Researchers found that patients get faster care, and are more likely to survive, if an ambulance crew takes them straight to a specialized hospital "cath lab," where [...]
Synovis Offers a Comprehensive Product Portfolio of Biomaterials and Devices to Repair and Reconstruct Soft Tissue ST. PAUL, Minn.(BUSINESS WIRE) Synovis Life Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYNO), a leading biomaterial [...]
June 30TWIN CITIES Talks between officials for 14 Twin Cities hospitals and the union representing their 12,800 nurses failed to produce a contract agreement Tuesday, but at least one offer of compromise emerged.In a statement late Tuesday night, the hospitals indicated that they offered to drop proposed cuts to the nurses’ pension plan. The [...]
Jun. 23Hennepin County Medical Center is sending warning letters to 2,600 patients whose gastrointestinal procedures involved ultrasound equipment that hadn’t been fully sterilized.While the hospital doesn’t know of any patients who suffered infections or harm, it is notifying them as a precaution, spokeswoman Christine Hill said."Patients have a right to know," Hill said. "We don’t [...]
Jun. 22Hennepin County Medical Center is sending warning letters to 2,600 patients whose gastrointestinal procedures involved ultrasound equipment that hadn’t been fully sterilized.While the hospital doesn’t know of any patients who suffered infections or harm, it is notifying them as a precaution, spokeswoman Christine Hill said. "Patients have a right to know. We don’t want [...]
Jun. 22Federal mediators are seeking to restart contract talks this Thursday between 14 Twin Cities’ hospitals and the union representing their 12,800 nurses.The request came Monday as the nurses, represented by the Minnesota Nurses Association, voted to endorse an open-ended strike of their hospitals if their demands for pay, pension and greater nurse staffing aren’t [...]
Working with an internal whistleblower, Attorney Warner Mendenhall, the Law firm of McLaughlin and McCaffrey, LLP, and Assistant United States Attorneys Alex Rokakis and Michelle Heyer have worked for four years to expose False Claims by St. Jude Medical, Inc. a cardiac device manufacturer.As a result of the investigation, St. Jude has agreed to return [...]
ST. PAUL, Minn., June 10 /PRNewswire/ The 155,000 Registered Nurses of National Nurses United (NNU) today salute and honor their brave colleagues of the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA) for their historic decision to stage a major strike in defense of the patient care and safety standards at their hospitals.Today, more than 12,000 RNs in [...]
ST. PAUL, Minn., June 10 /PRNewswire/ The 155,000 Registered Nurses of National Nurses United (NNU) today salute and honor their brave colleagues of the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA) for their historic decision to stage a major strike in defense of the patient care and safety standards at their hospitals.Today, more than 12,000 RNs in [...]
Jun. 5Fourteen Twin Cities hospitals and their 12,000 nurses remained far apart on contract terms Friday, despite negotiations orchestrated by federal mediators.With no talks scheduled as of yet for next week, the likelihood of the nurses’ planned one-day strike Thursday is growing. The hospitals are hiring thousands of temporary nurses to fill in on the [...]
