Netsmart Technologies Releases Version 7.5 of Helper(TM) Practice Management Software.
Latest Release Includes Enhanced Scheduling, Financial and Claims Processing Features for Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Counselors, Therapists and Social Workers GREAT RIVER, N.Y., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Netsmart Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise-wide software and services for health and human services organizations, today announced the general availability...

Smoking bans and psychiatric facilities.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Over the past few years, there has been a large drive to initiate public and national smoking cessation programs, as well as policies to ban smoking from restaurants, hospitals, bars, and other public establishments. It is another issue to consider if smoking should...

2008 ONA exhibitors.
Amedisys Home Health Services American Red Cross, Tulsa AWHONN Bailey Medical Center Baylor Health Care System Chickasaw Nation Health System Choctaw Nation Health Services Authority Comanche County Memorial Hospital Continuous Care ...

The Need for Cultural Reform at the VA.
AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- As a physician who proudly serves our veterans of war, I was deeply saddened by the recent revelation of deceptive practices at VAs in New York -- a Newsday article reported that hundreds of veterans' benefit claims were misdated by the VA to...

Aurora Health Care's Kradwell School Receives National Planetree Award.
Aurora also receives physician, caregiver and pet therapy awards MILWAUKEE, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Aurora Health Care has received a top national award from the Planetree organization. Aurora was presented with the Planetree Healthy Communities program award for Kradwell School at Planetree's national conference in Chicago today....

Universal Health Services Schedules Third Quarter 2008 Earnings Release and Conference Call.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-20 October 2008-Universal Health Services Schedules Third Quarter 2008 Earnings Release and Conference Call(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Universal Health Services announced that it will report results for its third quarter late in the day on October 27, and will hold a conference call...

Virginia Mental Health Hospital Improves Patient Comfort, Receives Award for Energy-Saving Renovations.
ROANOKE, Va., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Catawba Hospital, a state-run psychiatric hospital in the Catawba Valley of Virginia, recently completed extensive renovations to its indoor comfort systems to make the buildings more energy efficient and improve patient and staff comfort. The hospital anticipates $1 million in savings...

Prison, hospital plans boost Junction City.
Byline: Whitney Malkin The Register-Guard JUNCTION CITY - In a town where jobs seem to be evaporating as the economy continues to free-fall, city officials say they have good news: Work to improve infrastructure in preparation for the state prison and mental hospital is likely to draw...

Universal Health Services, Inc. Announces Dividend.
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Universal Health Services, Inc. announced today that its Board of Directors voted to pay a cash dividend of $0.08 per share on December 15, 2008 to shareholders of record as of December 1, 2008. Universal Health Services, Inc. is...

Behind prison walls: what makes a young nurse take up the challenge of forensic mental health nursing at Sydney's Long Bay jail?
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Built to confine and control, the maximum security walls of Sydney's Long Bay jail are hardly enticing. Many have dreamed of escape, a daring few have tried and even fewer have succeeded. Shona MacLeod is a young Scottish nurse who quit...