The nation’s largest for-profit nursing homes deliver significantly lower quality of care because they typically have fewer staff nurses than non-profit and government-owned nursing homes.
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UCSF, the Oakland Unified School District, and an array of community-based partners are embarking on a quest to improve the lives of disadvantaged middle-school students, thanks to a $1.75 million grant from The…
November 15, 2011
Science of Caring
A Fulbright-funded exchange program seeks to improve the care of marginalized populations and underserved people from distinct parts of the globe.
November 15, 2011
Science of Caring
In response to a documented need, UCSF School of Nursing helps create a school dedicated to the needs of native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders and grounded in the latest research about nursing, teaching and learning.
The SF Bay Area Chapter of NAPNAP is hosting its 2nd Annual Bay Area Pediatric Advanced Practice Nurses Fall Conference in Palo Alto on October 29th from 8:00am-5:00pm.
Playing computer-based physical therapy games can help people with Parkinson’s disease improve their gait and balance, according to a new pilot study led by the UCSF School of Nursing and Red Hill Studios, a…
UCSF School of Nursing Dean David Vlahov and four other UCSF faculty members have been elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine. The new UCSF…
In April 2011 six Malawi health care professionals came to UCSF as part of a Fulbright project titled Promoting Global Health by Strengthening Capacity for Education of Health Professionals through a Professional…
B. KOENIG
A team of researchers, Gloria Petersen, Ph.D., of Mayo Clinic, Barbara Koenig, Ph.D., of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and…
Nursing student Brandie Hollinger is among hundreds of students, across all professional schools, who attended new student orientation with the Chancellor and all Deans. See the video and join in their…
UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, delivered the State of the University address on October 4, 2011.
The chancellor shared her vision and goals for UCSF for the next three years. She…
Monday, October 3, 2011 is National Child Health Day. This year’s theme is Helping Children Lead Healthy Lives.
FHCN and it's Nursing Leadership in Adolescent and Young Adult Health (NLAYAH) project…