Honolulu-based Hawaii Pacific Health's Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children has reached a three-year contract agreement with nurses represented by the Hawaii Nurses Association. The nurses will return to work Oct. 6, putting an end to a lockout imposed by the medical center on Sept. 13.

In November, Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions-represented employees approved a new four-year national labor contract following a strike involving tens of thousands of workers in multiple states. Employees also approved their local collective bargaining deals.

Nurses at Corewell Health East, which is part of Corewell Health in Southeast Michigan, filed paperwork with the National Labor Relations Board on Sept. 27 to unionize as Nurses for Nurses, a committee of the Michigan Teamsters Joint Council No. 43.

Resident physicians and fellows at Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine, which comprises the University of Pennsylvania Health System and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, have reached a tentative agreement on their first contract. 

Healthcare workers from Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health, who are represented by SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West, will hold informational pickets Sept. 24-26 at four Dignity Health hospitals across California to protest what they say is the outsourcing of jobs and short-staffing.

While labor costs in healthcare have decreased over the past 18 months, continuing this trend should remain a top priority for healthcare leaders.

The Massachusetts Nurses Association has tentatively agreedto a three-year contract with Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital in Boston, averting a planned one-day strike.

Honolulu-based Hawaii Pacific Health's Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children has imposed a lockout of nurses represented by the Hawaii Nurses Association after the group's one-day strike Sept. 13, the Honolulu Star Advertiser reported.

Nearly 1 in 4 U.S. workers have witnessed or have firsthand knowledge of colleagues expressing unethical behavior, according to a Sept. 4 Gallup article.

Nurses from Framingham (Mass.) Union Hospital, part of Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, have filed complaints with state and federal agencies regarding alleged jeopardized patient safety stemming from staffing, hospital policy and technology allocation issues.

Massachusetts Nurses Association members are set to begin a 24-hour strike Oct. 1 at Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital in Boston.

The proportion of board directors with CHRO experience at Russell 3000 companies grew following the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report released Aug. 30.

Nurses at West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh, represented by SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania, have approved a new labor contract with the hospital's parent organization, Allegheny Health Network.

Lauren De Simon Johnson, chief human resources officer of New Bedford, Mass.-based Southcoast Health, has been in her role since November 2018. She is well aware of the workforce challenges in healthcare and is addressing them in various ways within her organization.

The 4,000 nurses at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston have approved a new labor contract.

Nurses and hospital workers represented by SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania have approved a new three-year contract with Allegheny Valley Hospital in Natrona Heights, Pa.

California Nurses Association members are condemning a proposal to end births and intensive care services at the 49-bed Santa Paula (Calif.) Hospital on Oct. 15, relocating them to the 272-bed Ventura County Medical Center about 15 miles away.

Union-represented nurses at Honolulu-based Hawaii Pacific Health's Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children have filed an unfair labor charge against the medical center, according to a Sept. 5 Facebook post from the union.

Nurses at Honolulu-based Hawaii Pacific Health's Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children voted to participate in a one-day strike Sept. 13, according to a Sept. 4 Facebook post from the Hawaii Nurses Association. The hospital has since said it plans to lock out HNA nurses when the strike ends if the union does not accept the medical center's contract offer, according to statements shared with Becker's. 

Mario Ellis began his role as chief human resource officer of South Bend, Ind.-based Beacon Health System in February 2023, and he brings three decades of experience in human resources operations and functional management to the role.