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Reducing nurses’ stress is aim of Kent State, Donna Karan program

Reducing nurses’ stress is aim of Kent State, Donna Karan program

January 27, 2011 4:12 pm by | 1 Comments

Kent State University's College of Nursing and Donna Karan's Urban Zen Foundation are collaborating on a program that seeks to reduce nurses' job-related stress and burnout through yoga and other ... Read more

Kent State to offer doctorate of nursing practice degree

Kent State to offer doctorate of nursing practice degree

December 17, 2010 10:57 am by | 0 Comments

Kent State University's School of Nursing will begin offering doctorate of nursing practice degrees, which are intended to prepare advanced practice nurses as leaders in translating research evidence into clinical ... Read more


Summa Health doctors to care for Kent State student athletes

Summa Health doctors to care for Kent State student athletes

August 9, 2010 2:02 pm by | 0 Comments

Some Summa Health System physicians will attend a lot of Kent State University varsity events during the upcoming school year as part of a partnership between the Akron health system ... Read more

Kent State’s nursing school gets 100k scholarship grant

Kent State’s nursing school gets 100k scholarship grant

July 6, 2010 2:32 pm by | 0 Comments

Kent State University‘s College of Nursing has received a grant that will enable it to award 10 $10,000 scholarships.The college will use the funding to boost the number of students ... Read more

Kent State to offer master’s of public health degree

Kent State to offer master’s of public health degree

May 12, 2010 9:57 am by | 0 Comments

Kent State University will begin offering a master’s degree in public health this fall.The degree will be available in five specializations: epidemiology, biostatistics, environmental health sciences, social and behavioral sciences, ... Read more

Four Northeast Ohio institutions get $2.7M grant for heart study

Four Northeast Ohio institutions get $2.7M grant for heart study

May 6, 2010 3:25 pm by | 0 Comments

Four Northeast Ohio institutions have received a four-year, $2.7 million federal grant to study cognitive impairment in heart failure patients.The study’s goal is to understand why heart failure patients often ... Read more

Night Read (Ohio): Wright State University building $22M neuroscience center

Night Read (Ohio): Wright State University building $22M neuroscience center

February 25, 2010 8:23 pm by | 0 Comments

Wright State University in Dayton plans to build a $22 million state-of-the-art center to make the university a national leader in neuroscience research, and Premier Health Partners plans to provide ... Read more


Night Read (Ohio): Christ Hospital Mount Auburn plans expansion

Night Read (Ohio): Christ Hospital Mount Auburn plans expansion

February 22, 2010 7:57 pm by | 0 Comments

Two years after emerging as an independent with aspirations to become one of the nation's top hospitals, Christ Hospital in Mount Auburn hopes to spend hundreds of millions of dollars ... Read more

Governor, chancellor announce Ohio’s bioscience, health care centers of excellence

Governor, chancellor announce Ohio’s bioscience, health care centers of excellence

February 19, 2010 4:19 pm by | 0 Comments

Gov. Ted Strickland and Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Eric Fingerhut donned their high-tech marketing hats Friday, touting the state's leadership in biomedical and health care innovation by announcing centers ... Read more

Night Read (Ohio): Biomedical growth boosts Northeast Ohio economy

Night Read (Ohio): Biomedical growth boosts Northeast Ohio economy

January 18, 2010 10:49 pm by | 0 Comments

Northeast Ohio's economy has been more similar to the U.S. economy during the current recession than in the 1981 recession, thanks in part to growth in the region's biomedical industry, ... Read more

Kent State opens enrollment for public health bachelor’s, graduate degrees to follow

Kent State opens enrollment for public health bachelor’s, graduate degrees to follow

October 28, 2009 2:30 pm by | 0 Comments

The degree program is meant to help cope with the expected vacancies in the public health sector: from frontline workers in labs testing for diseases such as H1N1 to public ... Read more

More than $1.2 million in NIH stimulus money coming to Ohio for medical research, education

More than $1.2 million in NIH stimulus money coming to Ohio for medical research, education

June 19, 2009 9:08 pm by | 2 Comments

The National Institutes of Health has released $1,156,739 of economic stimulus money for medical research and education to seven institutions and hospitals in Ohio. ... Read more

New Kent State online program reaches out to certified athletic trainers

New Kent State online program reaches out to certified athletic trainers

June 4, 2009 10:31 am by | 0 Comments

The program, designed to take into account what athletic trainers already know, requires the students to be on campus just six times. They will graduate with associate degrees in 14 ... Read more

Kent, Lorain Community College to start paramedic-to-RN programs

Kent, Lorain Community College to start paramedic-to-RN programs

May 22, 2009 12:55 am by | 3 Comments

Lorain County Community College and four campuses of Kent State University will soon begin paramedic-to-RN programs, which are thought to be the first in Greater Cleveland. The Kent State program ... Read more

Akron, Kent State nursing schools team up on proposal for doctor of nursing practice degree

Akron, Kent State nursing schools team up on proposal for doctor of nursing practice degree

April 23, 2009 11:03 am by | 7 Comments

If all goes well, the two schools could offer a Doctor of Nursing Practice by 2010. Eighty schools already offer the DNP, which the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. ... Read more