Health systems and hospitals offering incentives, according to the report.
1. Radnor Township, Pa.-based Main Line Health has spent $8.5 million on pay raises in the last 18 months, Chief Nursing Officer Barbara Wadsworth, DNP, RN, told the Inquirer. This includes $1 million in August.
2. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia increased hourly rates for about 90 percent of its nurses, a spokesperson told the Inquirer. Bonuses were offered to those who didn’t get a raise.
3. Tower Health’s Pottstown (Pa.) Hospital offered a $5-an-hour increase in July for nurses earning an hourly rate of $30.32 to $33.81. The increase is under a labor agreement between West Reading, Pa.-based Tower Health and the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses & Allied Professionals.
4. Cooper University Hospital in Camden, N.J., offered nurses a $1,500 bonus for working four extra 12-hour shifts over six weeks, including two on weekends, Doris Bell, a registered nurse and president of the Health Professionals & Allied Employees Local 5118 at Cooper, told the Inquirer.
Read the Inquirer‘s full report here.
