BALTIMORE (Map, News) - As the population rapidly ages, it is increasingly vital for the aging and their loved ones to evaluate quality of care and options at nursing.

The Maryland Health Care Commission recently released its “Maryland Nursing Home Guide,” including information about more than 200 comprehensive-care nursing facilities and 34 continuing-care retirement communities, including quality of care and results of recent inspection visits.

“Public reporting of health care quality serves two purposes: It gives patients and families information to help guide health care decisions, and it gives providers additional incentive to improve the care they provide,” said Dr. Rex Cowdry, executive director of the commission, in a statement.

The Guide is located on the Commission’s Web site at mhcc.mary land.gov or by calling 410-764-3482.

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6:22 AM MST on Thu., Feb. 7, 2008 re: "Nurses lead charge on clean, healthy workplaces"

J corbinExaminer said:
To Paxon, I feel your pain...while at work I too was injured by inhaling fumes from the products used to strip and wax the floor at the hospital where I worked. I had told the environmental employees on multiple occasions that the solvents used made me sick and asked them to wait until a day I was off to do the floors. This usually worked however on one particular day I wasd told the inspectors were coming and they had to do the floors. I ended up with not only a migrane headache but chemical burns to my sinuses that took weeks of steroids and antibiotics to clear...but the floors were clean and shiney for inspection.

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11:59 AM MST on Sat., Nov. 10, 2007 re: "New plan hopes to ease nursing shortage in Md."

Examiner Reader said:
The nursing shortage is caused, basically, by three different things: (1) "Monopoly capitalism", (2) Gender discrimination against men in nursing, and, (3) The absolute and almost arbitrary authority that clinical instructors have to fail nursing students in their clinicals. In "Monopoly capitalism", "capital" is exported from the native country instead of the finished products of production produced by the native citizenry. What is "capital"? Capital is labor, money, and industry. In the case of nursing in the USA, there has been a massive immigration into the USA of foreign born nurses such that the same now represents about 30%-40% of American nurses. "Monopoly capitalism" tends to destroy the two main attributes of "true capitalism" which are competition and free enterprise. " Monopoly capitalism tends to impoverish the native citizenry (nursing work force) which concentrating both economic and political power in the monpolists.

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8:50 AM MST on Tue., Nov. 6, 2007 re: "New plan hopes to ease nursing shortage in Md."

ER girl said:
If it means that I can be seen quicker when I am in the emergency room, I'm all for it!

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