Here are six statistics on trends in the healthcare workforce in 2012, according to the "2013/14 Human Capital Effectiveness Report" from PriceWaterHouse Coopers.
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Getting a hospital's employees — be they administrators or medical staff — to gel as a team and communicate effectively is the ideal situation, but can prove difficult: Healthcare reform has caused many workers' jobs to change, leading to stress,…
The National Labor Relations Board has found that the Memorial Hospital of Salem County in Salem, N.J., violated national labor laws when it refused to bargain with the Health Professionals and Allied Employees union over changes in the dress code…
St. Luke's Lakeside Hospital in Montgomery, Texas, has employee engagement levels in the 100th percentile, according to a Houston Business Journal report.
New London, Conn.-based Lawrence + Memorial Hospital's three unions, part of AFT Connecticut, have said the hospital's most recent round of layoffs were unnecessary, according to a report by The Day.
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About 100 nurses from Northside Medical Center in Youngstown, Ohio, picketed outside the hospital Saturday over contract negotiations, according to a Tribune Chronicle report.
Employee productivity, staff retention and the quality of hires are all major issues within the hospital and healthcare workforce, and many labor trends related to those issues bubbled to the surface last year, according to the 2013/14 Human Capital Effectiveness…
While the healthcare industry added 32,700 jobs last month, hospitals added just 900 in August, according to the most recent seasonally adjusted numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
More than 80 percent of all employers — 85 percent of large companies and 81 percent of smaller companies — have employee wellness programs in place, according to bswift's "2013 Wellness & Benefits Administration Benchmarking Study." However, many of these…
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., has done away with its 1.5 percent employee merit raise, according to a Winston-Salem Journal report.