Leadership & Management

Workers represented by the Service Employees International Union have approved a three-year contract with Tenet Healthcare Corp. for nine California hospitals, according to a San Francisco Business Times report.

Despite the poor economy, non-profit hospitals and healthcare systems managed an eight percent increase in philanthropic donations last year to more than $8 billion, with individual donors contributing approximately 60 percent of that total, according to an Association for Healthcare…

The National Union of Healthcare Workers, which represents approximately 850 employees at Salinas (Calif.) Valley Memorial Healthcare System, has announced a planned one-day strike on June 21, according to a Californian report.

The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, N.J., and Englewood (N.J.) Hospital and Medical Center are encouraging Hackensack (N.J.) University Medical Center to convert former Pascack Valley Hospital in Westwood, N.J., into a medical mall instead of the planned 128-bed hospital, according…

St. Luke's Riverside Hospital in Bethleham, Pa., as well as its cancer treatment buildings, are on pace for their fall openings, according to an Express-Times report.

Sacred Heart (Pensacola, Fla.) Health System officials will announce a multimillion-dollar expansion project, adding new floors to its Heart and Vascular Institute, according to a Pensacola News Journal report.

Nurses with Boston-based Northeast Health System will picket in response to the system's impending sale amidst contract talks, according to a Gloucester Times report.

Shands Jacksonville (Fla.) has filed a challenge to Florida's review process for new trauma facilities, arguing that it uses out-of-date information, according to a Florida Times-Union report.

As Birmingham, Ala.-based Cooper Green Mercy Hospital continues to struggle financially, the county is preparing to vote on whether or not the hospital will be allowed to dip into the county's general fund for financial support, according to a Birmingham…

Florida Gov. Rick Scott recently signed into law legislation that prohibits physicians from asking their patients or their families whether they own a gun, according to a Boston Globe news report.