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Every year, Forbes asks employees from companies across 25 industries to rank how likely they'd be to recommend their employer on a scale from zero to 10. In 2015, employees from 25 hospitals and health systems ranked their employers

In a recent news article, the ANA and Capella University have teamed up to give six full-tuition scholarships to ANA members who will start graduate nursing programs at Capella.

Many hospital and health system executives are in agreement that their role is to serve people, workers and patients alike.

Little Rock-based Arkansas Children's Hospital announced it will no longer hire smokers starting May 1, when its Tobacco and Nicotine-Free Campus policy goes into effect, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

As many as 40 healthcare employers are slated to participate in a job fair next month at Gwynedd Mercy University's campus in Bensalem, Pa., according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.

More than 100 licensed nurse practitioners and technicians at ACMH Hospital in Kittanning, Pa., will strike Tuesday, according to a TribLive report.

While some hospitals and health systems are implementing layoffs, others are hiring. 

More than 500 SEIU Healthcare Minnesota members employed by Minneapolis-based Allina Health held an informational picket March 25 outside of Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis to highlight the need for safer staffing levels and other health and safety measures.

San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, the city's largest safety-net provider, is hiring more than 100 registered nurses for its new $877 million inpatient facility, according to a San Francisco Business Times report.  

Auburn (N.Y.) Community Hospital is not in danger of closing, despite a union's claim to the contrary, a hospital official said in a Syracuse news report.