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Ashland, Ky.-based King's Daughters Medical Center has laid off 148 workers, according to an Ironton Tribune report.

The following 11 hospital and health system layoffs and workforce reductions were covered by Becker's Hospital Review in the last two weeks. They are listed below by number of employees and/or positions affected.

Nearly half — 48 percent — of nursing jobs go unfilled for an average of six weeks, according to a recent CareerBuilder survey, conducted by Harris Interactive.

Lowell (Mass.) General Hospital has laid off 34 workers, according to a Lowell Sun report.

Newburyport, Mass.-based Anna Jaques Hospital has laid off nine employees, according to a Boston Business Journal report.

Employees of San Francisco-based Dignity Health held an informational picket Saturday outside Arroyo Grande (Calif.) Community Hospital to protest poor wages, according to a Santa Maria Times report.

Portland-based Maine Medical Center has announced it will lay off 50 employees and eliminate 175 other positions, according to a Bangor Daily News report.

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Nurses rallied Monday outside the North Central Bronx (N.Y.) Hospital to protest the closing the hospital's labor and delivery services, according to a Norwood News report.

Even though Plainsboro, N.J.-based Princeton HealthCare System has eliminated 45 full-time positions this year, the system hired 53 employees in July, according to a NJ Times report.