A Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania report shows that hospital job growth in November helped Pennsylvania reach an unemployment rate of 5.1 percent.
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The following issues involving hospitals and unions were reported within the past month, beginning with the most recent.
In a stand against what they claim to be unfair labor practices, among other issues, nurses on Monday began to strike at Washington, D.C.-based MedStar Washington Hospital, according to CBS Washington.
Months after a federal lawsuit accused Houston Methodist Hospital of not paying nurses for working through lunch, similar allegations have surfaced at North Cypress (Texas) Medical Center, which is also in the Houston area, according to CultureMap.
When asked to rank members of 11 different fields, Americans rated nurses as the most honest and ethical, according to an annual Gallup poll.
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Thirteen percent of the injuries and illnesses in the healthcare and social assistance sector in 2013 were attributed to violence, according to a recently released U.S. Labor Department report.
The 2011 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education duty hour reform time limits appear to not signifiantly affect patient outcomes, according to two articles in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The Massachusetts Hospital Association has announced the budgeted fiscal year 2015 caregiver staffing plans for each unit of almost all of the commonwealth's hospitals are available for viewing online.
Registered nurses at Salinas (Calif.) Valley Memorial Hospital have given the go-ahead for their nurse bargaining team to call a strike, according to a news release from the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United.
San Antonio (Texas) State Hospital put a temporary hold on admitting adult patients on Thursday due to a nurse shortage, according to San Antonio Express News. Adolescents will be admitted on a case-by-case basis.