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Healthcare workers protested Wednesday outside Marian Regional Medical Center in Santa Maria, Calif., over contract proposals from the hospital and its owner, San Francisco-based Dignity Health, according to a Santa Maria Times report.

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Nurses at Heritage Valley Beaver (Pa.) have nixed management's latest contract offer and will strike beginning Aug. 23, according to an Associated Press report published by CBS Pittsburgh.

Healthcare employment grew by 43,200 jobs in July, with hospitals contributing 17,100 of those, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' jobs report released Friday.

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