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A recent blog post from Select International, a healthcare employees assessment firm, identifies steps organizations can take to improve their employee feedback systems.

Four generations are currently working in the U.S. — the first time this has occurred in our nation's modern history, according to the American Hospital Association. Traditionalists (born before 1945), baby boomers (1946-1964), generation X'ers (1965-1980) and millennials are all…

Increased competition, payment structure reform, changing delivery models, accountable care organizations, patient-centered medical homes, new boutique organizations entering the market — all of these factors created by healthcare reform are exerting huge pressures on hospital margins. As a result, most…

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The Service Employees International Union has agreed to drop five healthcare ballot measures this year and will meet with Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber, MD, the Oregon Nurses Association and five health systems to improve healthcare throughout the state.

High Point (N.C.) Regional Health System will soon have 75 new employees, as current food service workers who are employed by Aramark Healthcare Support Services join the hospital's staff, according to a High Point Enterprise report.

DaVita has taken over dialysis services at The Christ Hospital Health Network in Cincinnati, affecting 25 nurses and six other employees, according to a report by the Cincinnati Business Courier.

Louisville-based KentuckyOne Health has issued layoff notices to employees, according to a WDRB report.

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