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Healthcare reform has hit the hospital industry on two fronts. For most hospitals, the primary concern has been the impact on the industry's business model and the need to reinvent that model as the focus of care shifts from volume…

Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare Services has filed a federal lawsuit against several employee unions, alleging the unions are using extortionist tactics to prevent it from purchasing Los Altos Hills, Calif.-based Daughters of Charity Health System.

Nurses at the Chicago-based University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System are holding a vote to possibly authorize a strike, according to a Chicago Tribune report.

Vail (Colo.) Valley Medical Center has started paying some employees to volunteer in the community through its Corporate Volunteer Program, according to a Vail Daily report.

A security breach in an online scheduling application affected more than 4,000 employees at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo.

Service Employees International Union 1199NW has reached contract agreements with Valley Hospital in Spokane Valley, Wash., and Deaconess Hospital in Spokane, Wash., according to a report by The Spokesman-Review.

The California Nurses Association/National Nurses United has planned coinciding strikes on Thursday at three hospitals in the state: Sutter Tracy (Calif.) Community Hospital, Queen of the Valley Medical Center in Napa Valley and Watsonville (Calif.) Community Hospital.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center $78,000 after finding the hospital did not protect its workers from falling equipment and violent patients, according to a New York Daily News report.

The Montana Nurses Association has recommended that its members at Billings (Mont.) Clinic do not approve the current contract offer, according to a report in the Billings Gazette.

The National Labor Relations Board has unanimously ratified all actions taken by the board from Jan. 4, 2012 to Aug. 5, 2013, which were taken by board members who were not validly appointed.