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Duke Raleigh (N.C.) Hospital is laying off 27 employees, including 24 full-time workers, according to a Triangle Business Journal report.

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center staff will be smoke- and tobacco-free during the work day beginning July 1, 2014.

Grinnell (Iowa) Regional Medical Center has eliminated 41 positions, resulting in 23 layoffs, according to a Tama Toledo News report.

Washington, D.C.-based Howard University will furlough 1,700 employees at Howard University Hospital for eight unpaid days over the next year, according to a Washington Post report.

Doctors' Hospital of Michigan in Pontiac is experiencing financial troubles and will be instituting layoffs because of those problems, according to a report by The Oakland Press.

The National Labor Relations Board has issued a formal complaint against Greenfield, Mass.-based Baystate Franklin Medical Center based on two charges from the Massachusetts Nurses Association/National Nurses United.

Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, Vt., the state's largest hospital, is now Vermont's largest private employer, according to a Vermont Public Radio report.

A new blog post from Pittsburgh-based employee assessment and hiring solutions firm Select International highlights three shaky interview questions.

The healthcare industry added roughly 19,800 jobs in June, 4,500 of which were in hospitals, according to preliminary seasonally adjusted numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

About a month after the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center announced it would outsource its transcription services, resulting in layoffs, affected medical transcriptionists, along with union members and community activists held a rally outside UPMC's headquarters, according to a New…