Members of the Service Employees International Union are planning to picket Medina (N.Y.) Memorial Hospital today, according to a Rochester Business Journal report.
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Approximately 4,500 nurses from seven Sutter Health hospitals in the Bay Area of California walked off their jobs yesterday, protesting changes to their sick leave policies and healthcare premium costs, according to a Modesto Bee report.
SwedishAmerican Health System, based in Rockford, Ill., has announced the elimination of 49 employees and 76 vacant positions, according to a Rockford Register Star report.
James Kaskie was appointed president and CEO of Great Lakes Health System of Western New York in Buffalo in October 2007, the parent organization of Kaleida Health and Erie County Medical Center, both located in Buffalo.
For hospitals or health systems, crisis communication is a delicate art. These are the institutions people trust to keep them healthy and safe, and events that challenge those values can be devastating to a hospital's reputation. In addition to the…
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Up to 4,500 registered nurses from 10 Sutter Health hospitals in Northern California are expected to strike today over stalled contract negotiations between the hospitals and the California Nurses Association of Oakland, according to a San Francisco Gate report.
Len Firestone, MD, medical director of perioperative services at Health Inventures, discussed key elements of top operating room performers in a recent webinar presented by Becker's Hospital Review. The webinar, titled "Top Performing ORs: What Executives Need to Know and…
Ralph de la Torre, MD, gets things done, but he starts by forgetting everything he knows.
Below are statistics on global patient satisfaction, which reflects satisfaction in six countries in addition to the United States.
If you’ve had the opportunity to see the movie “Money Ball,” you learned that the secret to success in baseball is achieving a high on-base percentage. For success in the healthcare supply chain, it is an “on- the-shelf ” percentage.…