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SIDNEY Joan Boltz will celebrate her 90th birthday on March 6, 2021.
Joan was born on March 6, 1931, to Charles “Charlie” and Cecilia (Prenger) Meyer. She attended McCartyville Elementary and graduated valedictorian from Anna High School in 1949. She then began working as a registered nurse after graduating from Good Samaritan Hospital nurses training in Dayton at the top of her class in 1952; this would begin her lifelong passion of working in healthcare.
After spending eight years in California, where she helped open the first Recovery Room (now referred to as the Post Anesthesia Care Unit) at what is now known as the Cedars Sinai Hospital, she returned to Sidney to be near family and raise her two children Karyn Boltz, a registered nurse and dentist residing in Powell, and Kevin Boltz, a chiropractor currently living in Manila, Phillipines. Both are graduates of Lehman Catholic High School. Joan has 13 nieces and nephews and numerous grea
A POST-OPERATION hospital unit that provides overnight care for patients could streamline the surgery schedule at Ysbyty Gwynedd. It is hoped the Post Anaesthesia Care Unit (PACU), a specialised three-bedded unit for patients following a major surgical procedure, will reduce the cancellations of operations by providing more critical beds at the hospital. It opened in January and is located in the hospital’s theatre department and is run by staff from the hospital s theatre team. Dr Carsten Eickmann, consultant anaesthetist, said: “The aim of this unit is to help decrease the number of surgical cancellations when there are no specialised beds available within the hospital.
Nursing seen as core to their personal missions to lead, serve, and comfort others
Posted on Jan 13, 2021 Thamar Julmiste, who was recently accepted to PIH s Global Nurse Executive Fellowship, is feeding a newborn in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in Hinche, Haiti on August 14, 2014.
Photo by Cecille Joan Avila / PIH
It was a typical morning for Gretta Joseph, deputy chief nursing officer at University Hospital of Mirebalais in Haiti. She was still at home, going through her work email and getting a sense of her schedule for the day at the hospital, when she noticed the congratulatory message informing her she had been accepted to Partners In Health’s Global Nurse Executive Fellowship.
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WORCESTER, Mass., Jan. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ As patient care conditions continue to deteriorate at Worcester-based St. Vincent Hospital, the 740 registered nurses are stepping up their efforts to alert the public and to pressure their for-profit employer of the need to increase staffing levels to better protect their patients during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. Starting today, a contingent of nurses from the hospital will commence daily picketing outside the facility until an agreement is reached with recalcitrant administrators to place the safety of patients ahead of the Dallas-based corporation s primary concern of boosting profit margins for shareholders.
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Highlands Medical Center officials: now is not the time to let our guards down and forget about COVID
Right now, hospital officials say they are good on bed space. They are caring for 16 Coronavirus inpatients.
Posted: Dec 22, 2020 10:24 AM
Posted By: Sierra Phillips
The hospital is currently taking care of 16 Coronavirus inpatients and 5 of those patients are on a ventilator. The hospital had 24 Coronavirus inpatients on Monday. To adjust for the uptick in numbers the hospital isn t doing elective surgeries. Right now, the Post Anesthesia Care Unit is being used as a non-Coronavirus ICU to help separate Coronavirus and non-Coronavirus patients. All Coroanvirus patients are in negative pressure rooms.