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NURSING NIGHTMARE For-profit nursing homes give worse care than public and not-for-profit ones, the first large-scale comparative study finds. Investor-owned homes provided 27% fewer nursing hours per patient and were almost 50% more likely to be cited for deficiencies in administration and care...
...steely resolve, with a mission: Find priests to fill America?s underserved parishes. And in 1992, armed with a new understanding of canon law, she founded Rentapriest to "assist thousands of Catholics with spiritual needs, especially those turned away by the church." Based in Framingham, Massachusetts, the not-for-profit service acts as a clearinghouse, providing names of married priests to congregations, couples, even cruise lines looking for religious leadership...
...years after resigning as executive vice president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to become the 26th President of Harvard University, Rudenstine will return to the Foundation to lead an advisory group guiding the development of ArtSTOR, an independent not-for-profit organization sponsored by the Foundation...
...INSTITUTE FOR GENOMIC RESEARCH PRESIDENT: Claire Fraser FOUNDED: July 1992 EMPLOYEES: 230 WHAT IT DOES: Genomics research on a not-for-profit basis Started by Venter after he left the NIH, this outfit is the mother of Celera. Run now by his wife, Claire Fraser (Venter serves as chairman of the board), it claims credit for identifying many of the human genes used in research today. TIGR (pronounced Tiger) now concentrates on microbial and plant genomic research, the results of which it publishes free on its website: www.tigr.org...
Question 5 on the statewide ballot will mandate the creation of a quality, patient-centered healthcare system accessible to all residents of the Commonwealth by July 2002. It will call for an immediate moratorium against for-profit corporate acquisition of not-for-profit hospitals and HMOs. More importantly, it will restore the patients right to choose his or her health and mental health professionals The initiative calls for at least 90 percent of all premiums to be used for patient care, public health, and training/research, and no more than 10 percent for administrative costs, with simpler paperwork and administration. These...