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Workers at Oceanside, Calif.-based Tri-City Medical Center, represented by SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West, gathered this week to obtain signatures to place a proposed salary-capping initiative on the November 2016 ballot, according to a Seaside Courier report.

Kaiser Permanente will open a national member services center in Gwinnett County this fall, a move expected to add roughly 800 new jobs to the metro Atlanta area by 2020, although most positions will be created by 2017.

A union in Pennsylvania is increasingly growing as more healthcare workers vote in favor of representation.

Hospitals and health systems are using a myriad of recruitment and retention techniques as they brace for a nursing shortage — from bonuses and tuition reimbursement to career development opportunities and partnerships with educational institutions.

Nurses at Philadelphia-based Hahnemann University Hospital voted Jan. 20 to join the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals, according to The Inquirer.

National Nurses United is urging California Attorney General Kamala Harris to reject the proposed merger of two Catholic health systems: Renton, Wash.-based Providence Health & Services and Irvine, Calif.-based St. Joseph Health System.

Reading (Pa.) Hospital was ordered by a federal judge to provide documents and information related to compensation for work a lawsuit claims employees did during unpaid meal breaks, according to a Reading Eagle report.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has vetoed a bill that would have required nursing homes to keep a certain number of certified nursing assistants on staff throughout the day and night, according to a NJ Advance Media report.

When hospitals have above-average nurse staffing levels and better working environments for nurses, surgical patients there tend to have lower mortality rates with similar costs, according to a study in JAMA Surgery.

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