Leadership & Management

For many in healthcare, 2012 will be a pivotal year — with issues ranging from the presidential election the Supreme Court decision over the healthcare law — and The Camden Group (pdf), a healthcare business advisory firm, named six of…

Elmhurst (Ill.) Memorial Healthcare has alerted the state that it plans to lay off approximately 100 employees as it closes some services, according to a Chicago Tribune report.

Sunnyside (Wash.) Community Hospital has implemented a 4.5 percent pay cut to all employees, except physicians and nurses, in addition to cuts to benefits and pensions, according to a KNDO report.

Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, N.Y., announced it will be laying off approximately 150 behavioral health employees just one month after it laid off 250 other employees, according to a Journal News report.

The healthcare industry added approximately 23,000 jobs from November to December, according to the most recent report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The system of delivering healthcare services is at a crossroads: While fee-for-service continues as the primary model of reimbursement, a transition to a value-based model is imminent. Even if the healthcare reform law is invalidated, healthcare spending as a share…

St. Luke's Hospital in Jacksonville, Fla., is changing its name to St. Vincent's Medical Center Southside, effective immediately, according to a WOKV report.

Technical workers at the Hackley campus of Mercy Health Partners in Muskegon, Mich., have voted to leave the Service Employees International Union and join the National Union of Healthcare Workers by a vote of 65 to 9, with two votes…

There were seven hospital layoffs that affected more than 450 employees in November, signaling fewer layoffs in the last months of 2011, according to an American Medical News report.

A federal push for electronic health records and a downtrodden economy are the primary reasons University of Mississippi Medical Center has laid off 115 employees, according to a WJTV report.