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More than 100 healthcare workers at Watsonville (Calif.) Community Hospital plan to strike May 17, according to a union news release.

San Mateo, Calif.-based Gurnick Academy of Medical Arts opened a campus in Sacramento, Calif., to train medical assistants, ultrasound, X-ray and MRI technnologists and fill the area shortage of people in those professions, reports The Sacramento Bee.

The Massachusetts Nurses Association is considering a 2018 ballot initiative to address hospital staffing, according to a State House News Service report published by The Sun.

Healthcare workers at Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.-based Aspirus Riverview Hospital ratified a contract agreement, according to a Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune report.

Jackson (Tenn.)-Madison County General Hospital, a part of Jackson-based West Tennessee Healthcare, intends to add more than 200 nursing positions to address growing demand in the hospital's emergency department, WBBJ News reports.

An important element of living a healthy life is a balance of physical, intellectual and spiritual well-being, which is reflected in the theme of the 2017 National Nurses Week: The Balance of Mind, Body, and Spirit.

With front-line providers experiencing an epidemic of burnout and compassion fatigue in the era of value-based care, it's critical for hospital and health system leaders to create a cultural environment where nurses are set up to thrive.

Nurses at Presence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, Ill., voted 529-89 Wednesday to allow the negotiating committee to call a strike if they feel the need to do so, according to a Herald-News report.

Unionized healthcare workers ratified a three-year contract agreement with Fountain Valley (Calif.) Regional Hospital and Medical Center.

Hospitals today are facing higher turnover and attrition rates than ever before, according to a survey report from Leaders for Today, a hospital management staffing firm. What's more, increasing turnover isn't limited to certain healthcare jobs — it is affecting…