The following hospital and/or health system layoffs were announced within the past month. They are ranked by the number of employees affected.
Leadership & Management
If the Supreme Court strikes down all or part of the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act, as everyone seems to be predicting, it would be a stunning indictment of the self-interested deal making that created this very flawed law.
Sisters of Mercy Health Systems, based in St. Louis, has announced it will roll out its new brand identity to its Oklahoma hospitals beginning June 1.
They're sick. They're getting sicker. There are millions of them. They are unaware that they are sick. No one told them they were sick. No one asked them basic questions to find out if they were sick. No one gave…
The Colorado Springs city council went through with its ultimatum, removing eight board members from the city-owned Memorial Health System who refused to resign in the wake of the board's decision to award outgoing Memorial CEO Larry McEvoy, MD, a…
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A well-designed employee assessment system is critical for a number of reasons, one of them being to strengthen the legal defensibility of a hospital's hiring system.
James Leonard, MD, is president and CEO of The Carle Foundation in Urbana, Ill., which is the non-profit parent company of an integrated network of healthcare services. At its core are Carle Foundation Hospital, Carle Physician Group and Health Alliance…
The Service Employees International Union and the California Hospital Association reached an agreement yesterday, putting an end to a months-long conflict.
White County Community Hospital in Sparta, Tenn., will be renamed Highlands Medical Center under a new merger with Nashville, Tenn.-based Saint Thomas Health, according to an Expositor report.
A hands-on training program from Columbia University in New York is designed to teach students and professionals how to make management and administrative decisions in hospitals, according to a Crain's Health Pulse report.