Health systems in Georgia and Southwest Florida are offering nurses sign-on bonuses amounting to tens of thousands of dollars and/or relocation assistance amid efforts to address staffing needs. Naples, Florida based NCH Healthcare system said it is hiring nurses to fill hundreds of open positions. As of June 22, the organization had about 450 open […]
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Upgrading will help more high-risk newborns, moms Eileen Bode was not allowed to hold her newborn son. He was whisked away to the neonatal intensive care unit minutes after he was born at NCH North Naples Hospital. A sharp-eyed nurse in the delivery room noticed the newborn… Read more >
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Next month marks one year since Immokalee’s Chantel Salas left North Naples Community Hospital following a lengthy battle with COVID-19. Admitted on May 25, 2020, Salas, who was 17 at the time, fought COVID-19 for 54 days, and at one point, was even sent to a specialty care facility in Orlando. Now fully recovered, Salas is living
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A germ-zapping robot isn’t replacing hospital housekeeping; it steps in as a second layer of protection to make sure the job is done. NCH Healthcare System debuted the robot system that destroys infection-causing pathogens which can be devastating to patients, along with driving up costs to hospitals for addressing hospital-acquired infections. It is the first hospital in
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Wendy, the Xenex UV robot, is the next step in the fight to keep you healthy in the hospital as she goes around Naples Community Hospital Healthcare System with a UV light that kills things like MRSA and the Coronavirus. All over the country, you can find horror stories about drug-resistant superbugs. C-Diff is just
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Construction workers will be a fixture at NCH Baker Hospital Downtown for the next two years. The emergency room at the hospital is undergoing a $35 million renovation that will include a two-story addition with an observation unit to handle patient fluctuations during busier winter months. The last renovation was in 2008. The emergency room
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Paul Hiltz kept his promise of listening to gripes and suggestions from physicians and patients, donors and community leaders during his first 90 days. He wasted no time taking the helm of the NCH Healthcare System in Collier County to begin restoring the community’s faith in its dominant hospital system after a tumultuous turn-of-events. Hiltz
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