Nearly 800 Pittsfield, Mass.-based Berkshire Medical Center registered nurses will go on strike Oct. 3 after roughly a year-long negotiation with the hospital, according to The Berkshire Eagle.
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Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente and its unions are speaking out against the latest bill to repeal and replace the ACA.
Nurses at Upper Peninsula Health System-Marquette (Mich.) plan to strike Oct. 5-6.
Teamsters union members at Mayo Clinic Health System in Fairmont, Minn., plan to rally over Mayo's plans to close Lutz Wing, its 40-bed skilled nursing home in Fairmont, according to an Albert Lea Tribune report.
Children's Hospital Colorado's new facility in Colorado Springs is expected to create 700 hospital jobs, according to a KOAA report.
Forty-seven registered nurses and healthcare professionals at Mercy Home Care in West Springfield, Mass.-based Mercy Home Care voted to join the Massachusetts Nurses Association.
The Texas Hospital Association said in a news release it estimates Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath affected as many as 75,000 hospital employees.
Here are 20 hospitals and health systems that posted job listings seeking nurses in the past week.
Ellsworth-based Maine Coast Memorial Hospital is losing seven physicians, according to a Maine Public report.
The planned takeover of St. Francis Health in Topeka, Kan., by Kansas City-based University of Kansas Health System and Nashville, Tenn.-based Ardent Health Services is expected to create 687 jobs over the next decade, according to a WIBW report.