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Susan Long, RN, may have only been a nurse for a little less than four years but she’s got experience well beyond what her nursing degree says.

Boy, how quickly time passes! It seems like yesterday when Bartholomew JoJo “Bart” Simpson first made a splash in The Tracey Ullman Show short “Good Night” in 1987. Ronald Reagan was president during that time and Prozac made its debut in the United States.

Richard Jones began the new year with the excitement of working for a new company. He has found there is nothing like a personal connection. And there is nothing like that lost at Platinum Health Care of Oklahoma, located in Oklahoma City.

- Three metro hospitals are joining forces to help improve the health of our citizens in a new protocol program created through a generous pledge of $300,000 from the Naifeh family. Oklahoma consistently scores poorly in national health statistics, ranking at or near the bottom in many categories. Heart disease tends to be the area of greatest concern.

The Fountains at Canterbury of Oklahoma City completed a $1 million construction project in early December 2011. The senior living community made innovative and upscale renovations and updates to their skilled nursing care and short term rehabilitation area, The Springs