New London, Conn.-based Lawrence + Memorial Hospital's three unions, part of AFT Connecticut, have said the hospital's most recent round of layoffs were unnecessary, according to a report by The Day.
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About 100 nurses from Northside Medical Center in Youngstown, Ohio, picketed outside the hospital Saturday over contract negotiations, according to a Tribune Chronicle report.
Employee productivity, staff retention and the quality of hires are all major issues within the hospital and healthcare workforce, and many labor trends related to those issues bubbled to the surface last year, according to the 2013/14 Human Capital Effectiveness…
While the healthcare industry added 32,700 jobs last month, hospitals added just 900 in August, according to the most recent seasonally adjusted numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
More than 80 percent of all employers — 85 percent of large companies and 81 percent of smaller companies — have employee wellness programs in place, according to bswift's "2013 Wellness & Benefits Administration Benchmarking Study." However, many of these…
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Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., has done away with its 1.5 percent employee merit raise, according to a Winston-Salem Journal report.
In the midst of upcoming pay cuts and unionization talks at Orlando (Fla.) Health, employees who will be affected by the pay reduction sent a letter to Orlando Health President and CEO Sherrie Sitarik Tuesday, according to an Orlando Business…
Two groups of employees at Lake Shore Health Care Center, a nonprofit community hospital in Irving, N.Y., have voted to unionize under 11999SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, according to a Buffalo Business First report.
More than 200 employees at Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center have accepted the early retirement deal the hospital recently offered, according to a report by The Tennessean.
In response to the sweeping changes brought by healthcare reform, healthcare organizations are restructuring to position themselves to survive the challenges ahead. With reimbursement levels (and, thus, the bottom line) increasingly contingent on clinical performance, many acute-care providers are beginning…