Employee engagement is critical in any industry, but especially so in healthcare, where leaders, and employees, are tasked with responding to significant, transformational changes to the industry and to their organizations' business models. Employee engagement isn't easily achieved, but there…
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In 2011, there were more than 2 million lost work days in healthcare, generating more than $13 billion in costs, according to a report in Professional Safety, the American Society of Safety Engineers journal.
Since the beginning of 2012, all but five of the largest 100 metropolitan areas have added healthcare jobs, according to recent research from CareerBuilder and Economic Modeling Specialists International.
The Youngstown, Ohio-based Northside Medical Center nurses who made the news for striking Monday are mostly back at work, according to a report from The Vindicator.
Akron (Ohio) General Medical Center is laying off roughly 30 employees and moving 30 others into new jobs as it eliminates about 60 positions, according to an Akron Beacon Journal report.
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Even though the one-day strike is technically over, nurses from Youngstown, Ohio-based Northside Medical Center continued to walk the picket line Wednesday after the hospital prevented some nurses from returning to work, according to a WFMJ report.
Northside Medical Center in Youngstown, Ohio, is filing unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board over the validity of the Ohio Nurses Association's 10-day notice of strike intention, according to a WKBN report.
Butte, Mont.-based St. James Healthcare and Teamsters Local No. 2 have reached a contract agreement, avoiding a looming strike, according to a report by The Montana Standard.
The more than 700 nurses represented by the California Nurses Association at John Muir Medical Center in Concord, Calif., have a tentative new three-year contract, according to the San Francisco Business Times.
Employees who are engaged are more likely to be in better health, eat well and exercise frequently than their disengaged counterparts, according to a report from the Gallup Business Journal.