Leadership & Management

The Rhode Island Association of the Deaf is suing Providence, R.I.-based Lifespan Health for allegedly not providing qualified sign language interpreters to communicate with deaf patients or their relatives, according to Providence Journal.

The following healthcare layoffs were reported by Becker's Hospital Review so far in September. They are listed below, beginning with the most recent.

Louisville, Ky.-based Kindred Healthcare will eliminate 86 positions with the closure of Kindred Hospital Indianapolis South, according to the Indianapolis Business Journal.

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Brentwood, Tenn.-based for-profit hospital operator RCCH HealthCare Partners eliminated 62 jobs at Lewiston, Idaho-based St. Joseph Regional Medical Center Thursday, The Lewiston Tribune reports.

One of the toughest questions of leadership is how to effectively communicate goals to workers without seeming pushy or overbearing. A solution to this problem could be switching from a vague expectation-based management, to agreement management, according to Chief Executive.

Bridges Health Winona (Minn.) is now offering free healthcare services to anyone, regardless of insurance status, every Thursday evening, according to News8000.

Lawmakers in Delaware — the state with the third highest per-capita healthcare spending in the nation — enacted a law Thursday to curb healthcare spending, according to The News Journal.

Though the Medicare-for-All bill proposed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has received much attention recently, one Medicare advocate believes legislators should focus on improving the program before expanding it, according to an op-ed published in The Hill.

Though a bipartisan group of governors and state commissioners advocated for continued cost-sharing reduction subsidies during Senate hearings on how to stabilize ACA marketplaces, the state regulation waivers GOP lawmakers want to include in the bill could dissolve Democrat support,…