Joy McIntyre

PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and the Center for Bioethics at Penn, led by Arthur Caplan, will host a conference on eradicating inequalities in local and global health care using a moral compass.

Oakbrook Terrace, Ill. - The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations today recognized Norma Lang, R.N., Ph.D., for her leadership role in promoting the use of performance measures to improve health care services by naming her the individual winner of the 2001 Ernest A. Codman Award.

PHILADELPHIA In one of the most ambitious studies of hospital nurses ever undertaken, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have found widespread concern about quality of patient care and discontent in the ranks of hospital nurses and have identified trends that bode ill for a quick resolution to the current nurse shortage.

PHILADELPHIA -- A three-year study evaluating primary-care pediatric practices has found that about two-thirds of children may be improperly measured, possibly leading to the misdiagnosis of growth disorders.