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El Camino Hospital has agreed to a new three-year contract with nurses, according to a Los Altos Town Crier report.

UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica, Calif., is using companions to help ease isolation for its geriatric patients, according to NPR.

Staffing shortages tops the list of concerns for healthcare executives in the shift from fee-for-service to value-based care, with 42 percent identifying this as having the biggest influence on their ability to delivery care effectively, according to Premier's semiannual economic…

Nurse practitioners and physician assistants can now participate in a training program for the medication-assisted treatment of opioid abuse, thereby allowing them to prescribe buprenorphine, a medication designed to curb opioid addiction.

Ernest Hemingway once said, "The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them." That's easier said than done when the topic at hand is the scheduling of your entire workforce, and that workforce is…

As we approach the new year, now is a great time for your medical group to review the past year, and take steps toward the year ahead.

The following is a roundup of recent events pertaining to hospital-union relationships, including strikes, legal battles, rallies and new contract agreements. All events were reported after Oct. 21.

Union members rallied Thursday to protest job cuts at UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange, Calif., reports Orange County Register.

Nurses at San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare have notified the hospital of their plans to strike Nov. 28, according to a CW6 report.

Hospitals employing a greater proportion of professionally qualified nurses relative to the number of nursing assistants have better outcomes for patients and nurses, according to a new European study published in the scientific journal BMJ Quality and Safety.