Over half of healthcare providers are having problems attracting experienced IT employees, according to a survey by Towers Watson, a global professional services company.
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Unionized employees at University of California's five medical centers have passed a vote to authorize a strike.
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.
I first met Paul Spiegelman about five years ago when he asked me to become a member of the advisory board for his company, Beryl, now BerylHealth. The company is in the patient experience arena, collecting data and generating insights…
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.
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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.
Hornell, N.Y.-based St. James Mercy Hospital is cutting the equivalent of 50 full-time employees in a workforce reduction initiative, according to a WETM-TV report.
The registered nurse workforce grew by more than 24 percent between 2000 and 2010, according to a report called "The U.S. Nursing Workforce: Trends in Supply and Education," by the National Center for Health Workforce Analysis, a part of the…
The healthcare sector added 19,000 seasonally adjusted jobs in April, 2,700 of which occurred in hospitals to continue an upward though lagging trend, according to preliminary results from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.