California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed into law legislation that is designed to protect nurses from suffering workplace injuries caused by moving patients, according to a Santa Cruz Sentinel report.
Leadership & Management
In a letter addressed to the House Appropriations Committee, the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace has urged committee members to "move forward" with policy changes featured in the departments of Labor and Health and Human Services' draft funding bill for…
The American Hospital Association's Committee on Performance Improvement has released a report detailing "must-do" strategies and organizational core competencies necessary for healthcare organizations to retain long-term success.
Nurses were joined by electricians and other community residents in a protest against Prime Healthcare Services, a hospital operator based in Ontario, Calif., according to a Contra Costa Times report.
Here are five questions and solutions about common challenges facing hospital executives.
In industries across the board, a confluence of trends and shifts are producing demand for a new kind of temporary worker. No longer the sole domain of administrative assistants, a high-powered provisional worker is taking charge at senior levels of…
The union representing employees of University of California Health has ratified a new contract, according to an LA Times report.
Economic pressures have forced Hospital Sisters Health System, based in Springfield, Ill., to cut 50 jobs from its Eastern Wisconsin Division, according to a Green Bay Press Gazette report.
The battle between Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health and Charlotte, N.C.-based Carolinas HealthCare System about who can build a hospital in Fort Mill, S.C., is heading back to court, according to a Charlotte Observer report.
More than 50 nurses held an informational picket outside of Rio Grande Regional Hospital in McAllen, Texas, protesting that the hospital's lack of nursing staff is endangering patients, according to a Monitor report.