Unionized employees at Cabell Huntington (W.Va.) Hospital plan to strike Nov. 14 if a contract agreement is not reached, according to a report by The Herald-Dispatch.
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Pittsburgh-based UPMC's former transcriptionists, who were outsourced to Nuance in July, protested Wednesday outside UPMC's corporate offices this week, according to a WESA report.
Members of SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania at Regional Hospital of Scranton (Pa.) voted Tuesday to send a 10-day strike notice to the hospital and hold a strike Nov. 13, according to a report by The Times-Tribune.
The Cleveland Clinic plans to move 700 administrative employees from Cleveland to buildings in Beachwood, Ohio, at the end of 2014, according to a report by The Plain Dealer.
Erlanger Health System in Chattanooga, Tenn., will stop hiring tobacco users Jan. 1, 2014, according to a Times Free Press report.
Organizations should focus on two things to change employees' behavior, according to a blog post written by Steven Jarrett, consultant with employee assessment firm Select International.
Florida Hospital, a health system based in Orlando, plans to incentivize its employees to ride SunRail, a commuter rail system in Central Florida that will start running in May 2014, according to an Orlando Business Journal report.
Employees at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island in Providence picketed Wednesday in protest of planned cuts at the hospital, according to a Providence Journal report.
Some individual areas of healthcare jobs saw growth between this year's second and third quarter, according HealtheCareers' Q3 Healthcare Jobs Snapshot.