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Healthcare workers at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth (Mass.), represented by 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, ratified a new contract with management April 26, the union said.

Morgantown, W.Va.,-based West Virginia University Medicine is looking for new hires to support its expanding facilities, according to Metro News.

Staffing and workforce management is a huge portion of a hospital’s budget. Now hospitals have the data to make intelligent staffing decisions and create cost-effective systems for better outcomes and an improved bottom line.

Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare Services has reached agreements with three labor unions that represent employees at Saint Michael's Medical Center in Newark, N.J., according to an NJBIZ report.

Stanford (Calif.) Health Care and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford (Calif.) have reached a tentative agreement with the Committee for Recognition of Nursing Achievement on new three-year agreements covering more than 3,000 registered nurses working at the hospitals.

More than 1,000 PeaceHealth workers at Sacred Heart Medical Center at Riverbend in Springfield, Ore., and Sacred Heart Medical Center, University District in Eugene, Ore., ratified their first union contract Monday, according to The Register-Guard.

Barlow Respiratory Hospital in Los Angeles seeks to hire 15 nurses in May.

The White House has chosen seven communities as pilot sites for its new Health Career Pathways program, a federal initiative aimed at expanding career pathways and connecting Americans to healthcare jobs, according to The Sacramento Bee.

The healthcare industry is suffering from a worker shortage, with not enough highly educated physicians and nurses to fill job slots at hospitals, health systems, home health agencies and more. At the same time, there is an increased demand for…

Hospitals and some nursing groups are lobbying state legislators nationwide to no longer require that nurses be licensed in each state they work in, The Wall Street Journal reports.