Healthcare Shopper

Trisun Healthcare eager to add centers  Trisun Healthcare, an Austin-based operator of nursing and rehabilitation centers that's in the midst of a major growth spurt that may soon take it out of Texas, is bringing more than 100 new jobs to Round Rock with its newest nursing and rehabilitation center.

Ardmore police warn merchants about high-dollar shopper using illegal checks   Ardmore police are warning local merchants to beware of a well-dressed female shopper who has been on a high-dollar shopping spree using a deceased person’s checks.

Riverwood Healthcare Center plans expansion  [AITKIN - Riverwood Healthcare Center announced it plans to break ground in late August for a 5,600-square-foot hospital addition expanding the radiology imaging center, making room for a fixed station MRI or Magnetic Resonance Imaging machine.

Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority launches mystery shopper program with Optimiza Academy  Within its efforts to provide unmatched services to the general public, the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority ASEZA will launch the Mystery Shopper program, which falls in line with the new initiatives of meeting the needs of the customers service receivers, and to achieve the requirements of King Abdullah II award for Government excellence and transparency.

Hickey to make unusual run for Sequoia Healthcare District board  n Jack Hickey plans to run for a seat in the health care district with two years left on his own

Cape Healthcare lays off six from hospitalist program   Cape Cod Healthcare Inc has eliminated the positions of five staff physicians and one nurse practitioner who worked in the hospitalist program at Cape Cod and Falmouth hospitals.

Healthcare shares pass $3 barrier  Fisher & Paykel Healthcare shares broke the $3 ceiling yesterday for the first time since early April after the company revealed first-half operating profit was set to jump nearly 40 per cent.

Al Jazeera English - News  New sanctions imposed by the West are threatening to undo moves by Iran to improve its healthcare system. Al Jazeera's Alireza Ronaghi reports on how the economic blockade is preventing many Iranians from receiving better treatment.

Personal data safety worries increasing  The security of personal information remains of concern to New Zealanders, although healthcare providers and the police are highly trusted with information, says a Privacy Commission survey.

Methodist Healthcare Ministries gives $7 million to homeless effort  Methodist Healthcare Ministries says it is contributing $7.1 million toward the construction of Haven for Hope, a 280,000-square-foot campus local leaders say will be a national model in the support, treatment and transformation of the homeless.

Alzheimer’s research seeks volunteers  The Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute and the Department of Geriatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School have partnered with Franciscan Skemp Healthcare Department of Geriatrics to broaden its Alzheimer’s disease research.

Govt of Gujarat signs pact with GE Healthcare to modernise five medical colleges  GE Healthcare, the provider of transformational medical technologies and services for the healthcare industry, and Health and Family Welfare Dept, Government of Gujarat has signed a Memorandum of Understanding MoU for a public private partnesrship PPP model to establish advanced medical technology in all the teaching hospitals/medical colleges of Gujarat.