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High Point (N.C.) Regional Health System will soon have 75 new employees, as current food service workers who are employed by Aramark Healthcare Support Services join the hospital's staff, according to a High Point Enterprise report.

DaVita has taken over dialysis services at The Christ Hospital Health Network in Cincinnati, affecting 25 nurses and six other employees, according to a report by the Cincinnati Business Courier.

Louisville-based KentuckyOne Health has issued layoff notices to employees, according to a WDRB report.

An Iowa measure that allowed retired state healthcare professionals to return to work earlier than usual — to ultimately alleviate a provider shortage — is set to expire this summer, according to a Sioux City Journal report.

More than a hundred nurses from the New York State Nurses Association rallied in front of the office of the state’s Department of Health in support of a bill that would establish a minimum nurse-to-patient ratio at hospitals in the…

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Nurses from UPMC Altoona (Pa.) rallied outside UPMC's headquarters in Pittsburgh Thursday after a one-day strike that ended Wednesday, according to a News Times report.

The one-day nurses strike at UPMC Altoona (Pa.) ended Wednesday at 7 a.m. EST, but only 31 nurses were recalled into work directly following the strike's end, according to a Pittsburgh Business Times report.

The total number of local health department employees fell from 190,000 in 2008 to 162,000 last year, a drop of roughly 12 percent, according to the 2013 edition of the National Association of County and City Health Officials Profile of…

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