Compassion mixed with equal doses of technical competence and good humor has enabled Irish nurses to help generations of American patients. Nurses were Ireland’s biggest export in the late 1980s when Anne Kelly finished her five years of training, first as a nurse and then as a midwife. “The job situation at home was bad and everyone was going somewhere else,” she … [Read more...] about An Irish Tradition: Nursing
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Spotlight On Community Health Care: Providing for Those in Need
Theresa Maloney Butler, CEO of Middletown Community Health Center, uses the values she learned growing up in St. Brendan’s Parish in the Bronx to bring affordable health care solutions to hundreds of New Yorkers. Theresa Maloney Butler, the highly successful Chief Executive Officer of Middletown Community Health Center Inc – a growing network of health care facilities in … [Read more...] about Spotlight On Community Health Care: Providing for Those in Need
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RESPONDING to a report by the Crisis Pregnancy Agency, Health Minister Mary Harney made a case for contraception to be available for girls as young as 11. The report revealed that girls aged 11-14 years are involved in sexual relationships and that pregnancies are possible in that age group. "I think we have to deal with the reality and the consequences of that," said Harney. … [Read more...] about News In Brief