Organizations should focus on two things to change employees' behavior, according to a blog post written by Steven Jarrett, consultant with employee assessment firm Select International.
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Florida Hospital, a health system based in Orlando, plans to incentivize its employees to ride SunRail, a commuter rail system in Central Florida that will start running in May 2014, according to an Orlando Business Journal report.
Employees at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island in Providence picketed Wednesday in protest of planned cuts at the hospital, according to a Providence Journal report.
Some individual areas of healthcare jobs saw growth between this year's second and third quarter, according HealtheCareers' Q3 Healthcare Jobs Snapshot.
For hospitals in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Delaware, the cost of total medical and prescription drug plans showed a median increase of 5.6 percent — a much smaller increase than five years ago, according to Cammack LaRhette…
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San Francisco-based Dignity Health has sued the International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 39 and the AFL-CIO, claiming rallies and demonstrations that are part of a strike at four of its hospitals in the Bay Area are hurting hospital business,…
Local 49 of the Service Employees International Union, which represents healthcare workers in Oregon, has filed five ballot measures on topics like hospital pricing and transparency, according to a report by The Oregonian.
Employment in the healthcare sector changed little last month, adding just 6,800 jobs, according to the most recent seasonally adjusted numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In the third quarter, the number of jobs posted on HealtheCareers Network, a healthcare recruiting solution for providers and job-seekers, increased 4 percent over job postings during the second quarter, according to HealtheCareers' Q3 2013 Healthcare Jobs Snapshot.
For the first time, all major hospitals in Mercer County, N.J., are requiring clinical staff members to be vaccinated against the flu, according to a report by The Times of Trenton.