Senior corporate executives, surgeons and physicians have topped the list of most “overrated” jobs, based on stress, unsteady hiring and physical demands, according to a news release from CareerCast.com. According to the report, the “hype” around these positions makes them…
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Salinas (Calif.) Valley Memorial Hospital and its service workers have been negotiating on a new contract for nearly a year, but failed negotiations have prompted union leaders to call for another one-day strike, this time on Oct. 18, according to…
U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) held a town hall meeting in Cleveland yesterday to discuss Cleveland-based MetroHealth's plans to cut 450 jobs due to uncertain finances and high charity care costs, according to a Plain Dealer report.
The Congressional Budget Office in June 2010 stated, "slowing the growth rate of outlays for Medicare and Medicaid is the central long-term challenge for federal fiscal policy." This imperative is driving healthcare policy and will affect every hospital's strategy concerning…
Hospitals in the United States added 13,300 jobs in September to a seasonally adjusted 4.77 million workers, according to an economic news release by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Hospital CEOs make a dozen decisions every day. They face an enormous amount of pressure knowing these decisions affect patients and families, along with hospital employees and staff, and are used to leaving their personal interests out of the equation…
Hospital Corporation of America's Central Florida Regional Hospital is moving along with plans to develop a $2 million to $10 million freestanding emergency department in Ovideo, Fla., according to an Orlando Business Journal report.
Here is a list of the top seven health systems operating the most urgent care clinics, according to Merchant Medicine's ConvUrgentCare Report (Oct. 2011).
The New York State Public Health and Health Planning Council has approved a plan by North Shore-LIJ Health System to build a $125 million freestanding emergency department on the campus of now-shuttered St. Vincent's Hospital in the Greenwich Village neighborhood…
Officials at Palm Drive Hospital in Sebastopol, Calif., said its outside management firm did not do enough to offset financial loses even though the firm helped the hospital exit bankruptcy, according to a Press Democrat report.