Tammy Turnbull, RN, was named the new director of nursing for Pioneer Manor, Gillette, WY, a division of Campbell County Memorial Hospital. She brings 30 years of nursing experience and several years of long-term care experience as a director of nursing, most recently at Highland Park Care Center, Alliance, NE.
Turnbull has worked in acute care and home healthcare settings, and taught certified nurse aide classes. She has been with CCMH since January 2009, servin
Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids, has received 5-star ratings for quality in more than a dozen clinical areas from HealthGrades, an independent healthcare ratings organization. The recognition is based on HealthGrades’ 12th Annual Hospital Quality in America study, which analyzes patient outcomes at all of the nation’s hospitals.
Spectrum Health, Blodgett, MI, and Butterworth, MI, hospitals also have been named recipients of the 2010 Gastrointestinal Surgery Excellence Award, ran
In The Real World of a Forensic Scientist Henry Lee, Elaine Pagliaro, and Katherine Ramsland expose the true nature of forensic science, countering the “CSI Effect” with a sobering analysis of the education, skills, and challenges involved in forensics.
Prosecutors in Manhattan — racing the legal clock for bringing a case — devised the novel strategy of indicting a rapist’s DNA. While DNA evidence has been used to overturn wrongful convictions, often many years after the trial, such evidence has become essential in solving cold cases.
Microsoft has teamed up with the National White Collar Crime Center to distribute a computer-forensics tool to U.S. police for free. The Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE) makes it easy for any officer, not just digital forensics specialists, to record the current processes of a suspect’s computer.
An FBI forensic analyst mistakenly got some of her own DNA on evidence recovered from the site where Chandra Levy’s body was found, the most recent mishap in a case riddled with mistakes and missed opportunities.
A look at the new solution for gunshot residue analysis from FEI, a direct-print tube labeling system from Micronic, sample mixing units from Benchmark Research Products, and a water purity book from Thermo Fisher Scientific.
