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Experts recommend that all healthcare personnel receive a flu shot every year, and during the 2014-2015 flu season, 77.3 percent of healthcare workers heeded that advice, according to survey results from the CDC.

Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System is ending its relationship with three companies that staff its housekeeping, janitorial, dietary and transportation throughout the system, according to a Crain's Detroit Business report.

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente, which has faced harsh criticism from consumers and regulators for inadequately staffing its mental health clinics, says it has hired 497 mental health therapists since 2011 and plans to hire an additional 354 by the end…

Registered nurses at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Valencia, Calif., have approved a new contract with the hospital, according to a Santa Clarita Valley Signal report.

Following months of negotiations, nurses and technicians at Providence-based Rhode Island Hospital have voted down a contract offer from the hospital's operator, Lifespan, according to a WPRO News report. 

About 900 healthcare workers at Poughkeepsie, N.Y-based MidHudson Regional Hospital have a new contract, according to a Poughkeepsie Journal report.

Two hundred and twenty healthcare workers at Orange, Calif.-based Chapman Global Medical Center voted Sept. 15 to join SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West.

AMN Healthcare, a San Diego-based company that provides healthcare workforce solutions and staffing services, has completed its acquisition of The First String Healthcare, an Irvine, Calif.-based provider of interim staffing and permanent placement of nurse leaders and executives.

Workforce planning for healthcare systems, hospitals and clinics is a conundrum.

Pay raises for U.S. employees are expected to hold steady in 2016, according to a survey by global professional services company Towers Watson.