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Federal officials have released final rules that limit how employers can offer workers financial incentives to join wellness programs.

In a recent blog post, Marcus Mossberger, Industry Strategy Director at Infor, discusses how to maintain a healthy workforce through engagement.

More than 100 workers and patients of Avondale, La.-based Jefferson Community Health Care Centers protested Monday at the Jefferson Parish government building in Gretna, La., according to a 4WWL report.

Salinas (Calif.) Valley Memorial Healthcare System and union workers are preparing for a strike that is set to begin Tuesday, The Californian reports.

Saint Louis University Hospital workers have reached a new contract agreement with management, according to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch report.

The Committee for Recognition of Nursing Achievement, the union representing nurses at Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford in Palo Alto, Calif., voted May 11 to ratify the previously announced tentative agreement with the hospitals.

More workers at Bergen Regional Medical Center in Paramus, N.J., were allegedly assaulted by patients after the Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited the hospital last year for failing to keep the workplace free of hazards, and for incorrectly recording…

Nurses from Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital representing the Massachusetts Nurses Association are expected to picket May 17 from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., according to the Boston Business Journal.

"What do nurses, musicians and play actors have in common?" David W. Lee, PhD, head of market access for USCAN, GE Healthcare, asked hospital executives at a round table at Becker's Hospital Review 7th Annual Meeting. "No productivity gains."

A new federal rule will require high-hazard industries, such as nursing care facilities and hospitals, to publicly report data about workplace injuries and illnesses — information that has typically been logged for private use, The Wall Street Journal reports.