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Nurses at 19 of San Francisco-based Dignity Health's hospitals will rally Friday over changes to retirement benefits, according to a Santa Maria Times report.

After a strike and subsequent lockout at Lawrence + Memorial Hospital in New London, Conn., talks between the hospital and the union were cancelled Tuesday, according to a WNPR report.

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While the healthcare industry as a whole added 28,400 jobs last month, hospital jobs grew by just 1,200, according to the most recent seasonally adjusted numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Workers at Deaconess Hospital in Spokane, Wash., and Valley Hospital in Spokane Valley, Wash., started a one-day strike at 6 a.m. Wednesday, according to a KHQ report.

In a policy switch, St. Luke's University Health Network in Bethlehem, Pa., will offer legally married same-sex couples benefits equal to those offered to married heterosexual employees, according to a report by The Morning Call.

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