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Blogs Comment On World Population Day, Health Care Reform, Other Topics
The following summarizes selected women"s health-related blog entries. ~ "World Population Day 2009 -- Time To Finally Make Maternal Health a Priority," Sharon Camp, Huffington Post blogs: World Population Day on Saturday "serves as an urgent reminder that ... governments around the world must boost investments in global health," especially maternal health, despite the global economic recession, Camp, president and CEO of the Guttmacher Institute, writes. Efforts "have fallen short" to date as the "financial res and political will needed to promote maternal health have been lagging," Camp writes. She notes that the nations are "hardly any closer" to achieving the United Nations" Millennium Development Goals of reducing maternal deaths by 75% and achieving universal access to reproductive health services by 2015. A "critical shortcoming" of recent efforts to achieve the MDGs has been the "reluctance of some governments and advocates to accept that better maternal health cannot be achieved without acknowledging, committing and fully funding sexual and reproductive health services," Camp writes. In particular, "this includes contraceptive services to help women time and space pregnancies as well as treatment of septic or incomplete abortions," and "providing safe abortion services consistent with individual country law," according to Camp. However, there is "some good news," she writes, noting that "[n]ew momentum behind worldwide advocacy efforts may yield the res and political commitment needed to make a difference." Camp concludes, "It is precisely because res are scarce that they must be used wisely and efficiently in a way that serves both humanitarian and economic development goals. Investing in saving women"s lives fits this bill" (Camp, Huffington Post blogs, 7/9).~ "Proposed Amendments Would Deny Health Care to Women," Lois Uttley, RH Reality Check: In a blog post addressed to "Gentlemen of the Congress," Uttley asks if they have "forgotten about the women" in their lives as they work on crafting health care reform legislation. Uttley writes,"[S]ome of you are wasting valuable time and taxpayer dollars proposing amendments that would deny health care" to several groups of people, including women. She writes that Republican Sens. Mike Enzi (Wyo.), Orrin Hatch (Utah) and Tom Coburn (Okla.) this week submitted amendments to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee that would ban coverage for abortion services; protect health care providers and insurers from ""discrimination" for refusing to provide health care requested by their patients," including abortion and emergency contraception; allow federally qualified health centers to "not provide abortions and still get government grants"; and require that "[a]ny independent medical board appointed to determine the benefits that would be included in national health reform coverage would have to include "professional ethicists ... with specialty in rights of the life of the unborn."" Meanwhile, Democrats "are spending far too much time trying to win over colleagues who are never going to vote for health reform, no matter if you offer them abortion exclusions or new provider "conscience" laws or other provisions that would hobble health reform," Uttley writes. She continues, "Don"t forget that women are among the strongest supporters of moving quickly on health reform this year" because they are "grassroots experts on what is broken in the current health system," such as insurers" labeling of pregnancy as a "pre-existing condition," using "gender rating" in individual policies and excluding contraception coverage. She asks, "So what do women want?" Uttley provides a "list we"ve been compiling at Raising Women"s Voices for the Health Care We Need." Among the priorities, the list stresses that lawmakers should keep "moral values" out of the debate and that health insurance must be affordable, more simple to understand, fair, portable and universal (Uttley, RH Reality Check, 7/9).~ "Reports
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Nurse Leaders Selected For Prestigious National Fellowship To Improve Health Care

A national fellowship program focused on expanding the role of nurses to lead change in the U.S. health care system has named its 2009 cohort of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation® (RWJF) Executive Nurse Fellows. Twenty nurses, selected from among the top nursing leaders nationwide, will join more than 200 nurse leaders who have participated in the program since 1998. With nurses from Oklahoma and Rhode Island, two states new to the program, the Executive Nurse Fellows network now extends across 46 states. The three-year fellowship program provides extensive leadership development for nurses in executive roles in public or community health, science and research, corporate health, academia, government, or military health service. Fellows remain in their current positions while they receive training and mentoring, and while they manage their own health care initiative. A key part of program participation is the development of an innovative new initiative to improve health care delivery, which Fellows plan and implement in their community. "Nurses provide a unique perspective in the health care system, understanding both the patient experience and the way policies and procedures affect health outcomes," said Marilyn P. Chow, D.N.Sc., R.N., F.A.A.N., the RWJF Executive Nurse Fellows national program director. "We are excited for the unique opportunity that our fellows have. They will be able to utilize the skills they develop in our program to participate in the national discourse on health reform." The 2009 Executive Nurse Fellows are: * Julee Bolg, M.S., M.B.A., N.E.-B.C., director of patient services, satellite network for the Children"s Health Corporation, Boston, Mass.; * Janie Lee Canty-Mitchell, Ph.D., R.N., associate dean for research and community partnerships at the University of North Carolina Wilmington School of Nursing, Wilmington, N.C.; * Stephen Cavanagh, Ph.D., M.P.A., R.N., professor and associate dean, Wayne State University College of Nursing in Detroit, Mich.; * Lynne Dunphy, Ph.D., F.N.P., B.C., Routhier Chair and professor of nursing, University of Rhode Island in Kingston, R.I.; * Lorraine Frazier, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., professor, University of Texas Health Science Center Nursing Systems in Houston, Texas; * Mary Ellen Glasgow, Ph.D., R.N., C.N.S., associate dean, undergraduate programs, Drexel University, College of Nursing and Health Professions in Philadelphia, Pa.; * Mary Beth Kingston, M.S.N., N.E.A.-B.C., chief nurse executive, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network Administration in Philadelphia, Pa.; * Josefina Lujan, Ph.D., R.N., regional dean and associate professor, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Anita Thigpen Perry School of Nursing in El Paso, Texas; * Margo MacRobert, M.S., R.N., C.C.M., N.E.A.-B.C., assistant dean and executive director of the Institute for Case Management, University of Oklahoma College of Nursing in Oklahoma City, Okla.; * Rosalie Mainous, Ph.D., A.R.N.P., N.N.P.-B.C., associate dean for graduate academic affairs, University of Louisville Foundation in Louisville, Ky.; * Julie Myhre, M.S., R.N., director, Carlton-Cook-Lake-St. Louis Community Health Board, Duluth, Minn.; * Lisa O"Connor, M.S., R.N., N.E.A.A.-B.C., vice president of nursing, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Mass.; * Shirley Orr, M.H.S., A.R.N.P., N.E.A.-B.C., director of local health, Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Office of Local and Rural Health, Topeka, Kan.; * Cecilia Page, M.S.N., R.N., F.A.C.H.E., director of Clinical Informatics and Project Management Office, University of Kentucky Healthcare, Lexington, Ky.; * Suzanne Prevost, Ph.D., R.N., associate dean for practice and community engagement, University of Kentucky, College of Nursing, Lexington, Ky.; * Elias Provencio-Vasquez, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., F.A.A.N.P., associate professor, University of Miami, School of Nursing and Health Studies, Coral Gables, Fla.; * Cindy Reistroffer, M.B.A., R.N., N.E.-B.C., director, Spectrum Health Hospitals, Grand Rapids, Mich; * Charleen Tachibana, M.N., R.N., senior vice president, hospital administrator and chief nursing officer, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Wash.; * Barbara Wadsworth, M.S.N., M.B.A., N.E.C.-B.C., senior vice president for patient services and chief nursing officer, Abington Memorial Hospital in Abington, Pa.; and * Barbara Wolfe, Ph.D., R.N., C.N.S., F.A.A.N., associate dean for research and professor, Trustees of Boston College School of Nursing in Chestnut Hill, Mass. The fellowship is supported through a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and matching funds from each of the Fellows" home institutions or sponsoring organizations. Mary Dickow, M.P.A. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellows Program


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