It is highly unlikely any healthcare professional is unaware of the ongoing shift from volume- to value-based care delivery models. However, what might be less apparent are the primary factors driving that change, and the stakeholders that will be impacted…
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As the Minneapolis-based Allina Health nursing strike continues, a replacement nurse from Georgia left the system's Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids, Minn., on Wednesday, citing concerns about the hospital's current quality of care as the reason for her departure, according…
Filing 139 petitions, the Service Employees International Union was the most active union in organizing employees in the healthcare sector in 2015, according to IRI Consultants and the American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration's latest report on healthcare labor…
Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital and its nurses union have agreed to another round of contract negotiations to try to avoid a looming strike, The Boston Globe reports.
About 1,300 nurses at Kaiser Permanente's Los Angeles Medical Center who are members of the California Nurses Association and National Nurses United are set to begin a four-day strike Thursday, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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Striking nurses at Allina Health are questioning the organization's spending, including the Minneapolis-based system's $108 million investment in medical data company Health Catalyst, according to a Star Tribune report.
Talks between Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital and the union that represents 3,300 nurses there are at a standstill, according to an editorial in The Boston Globe.
Workers at Santa Rosa (Calif.) Memorial and Petaluma (Calif.) Valley hospitals have approved a tentative agreement with management, The Press Democrat reports.
Over the past two years, a widening gap of unfilled jobs in healthcare has left providers scouring for quality clinical professionals to staff their facilities.
Employers are increasingly using benefits packages to attract employees, particularly when they may not be able to match competitors' salaries, according to the Society for Human Resource Management.