A major winter storm dumped several feet of snow in the Buffalo, N.Y., area, and local hospitals are having a difficult time staying staffed as the snow keeps employees from work.
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More than 1,100 employees at two CHI Franciscan Health hospitals — St. Clare Hospital in Lakewood, Wash., and St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma, Wash. — walked off the job Tuesday as part of a one-day strike.
Pittsburgh-based UPMC is being ordered to put employees back on payroll within two weeks after a claim that it violated federal labor law when four employees involved in unionizing activities were fired, according to a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette report.
The key to employee happiness, performance and commitment to the company is actually pretty simple: recognize their daily accomplishments.
Nurses across the country are holding strikes, vigils and pickets outside of hospitals, and rallies at federal offices are being held in several states during what has been dubbed Global Ebola Awareness Day.
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Employees at Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Erlanger Health System are circulating a petition protesting the decision to disarm security guards at the system's facilities, according to a Times Free Press report.
A strike organized by National Nurses United that will stop the work of roughly 18,000 nurses at nearly 90 hospitals and clinics in California started Tuesday at 7 a.m.
All employees and staff at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas who cared for the hospital's Ebola patients, as well as their contacts, have been cleared of risk of developing the disease.
TeleTracking Technologies has started a relationship with Kronos Incorporated, a workforce management solutions provider, which aims to help joint customers improve operational efficiency and care quality.
Nursing unions are campaigning strenuously in Washington, DC and state capitals for legislation mandating nurse-patient ratios in hospitals. They are right to highlight the connection between those ratios and quality healthcare, but the solution that they propose focuses on the…