A recent survey by Towers Watson found that 88 percent of employers plan to offer healthcare benefits to their active employees "for the foreseeable future."
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Hospitals and health systems are typically viewed as organizations that take care of the ill and, more increasingly, encourage preventive health.
Employers are more frequently offering workers high-deductible health plans in conjunction with health savings accounts, sometimes as the workers' only health benefit option, according to a survey conducted by Towers Watson and the National Business Group on Health.
Over half of healthcare providers are having problems attracting experienced IT employees, according to a survey by Towers Watson, a global professional services company.
Unionized employees at University of California's five medical centers have passed a vote to authorize a strike.
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Hundreds of registered nurses at Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health's East Bay hospitals will walk off the job May 17 as part of a union strike, according to a Contra Costa Times report.
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The following hospital and/or health system job eliminations were announced or implemented within the past month. They are listed by the number of employees or positions affected.
Maine Medical Center in Portland has announced a hiring and travel freeze in the face of a $13.4 million loss, according to a Bangor Daily News report.
Gila Regional Medical Center in Silver City, N.M., has downgraded 70 full-time positions to part-time roles, according to a Silver City Sun-News report.