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Uniontown (Pa.) Hospital plans to close four departments by the end of the year, affecting roughly 70 employees, according to a Herald Standard report.

The only constant is change — and nowhere is this more true than in today's healthcare industry. The impact of healthcare reform cannot be overestimated. And when we consider reform in combination with other market forces (rising medical cost trends,…

Although many hospitals and healthcare systems have recently instituted layoffs to stay afloat, some healthcare organizations are still having trouble filling their open positions. According to a recent CareerBuilder survey, 48 percent of nursing jobs and 39 percent of allied…

Bert Fish Medical Center in New Smyrna Beach, Fla., will stop hiring tobacco users next year, according to a Daytona Beach News-Journal report.

Members of the Service Employees International Union local 521 in San Jose, Calif., which include 911 dispatchers and employees at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, say a strike is "imminent."

St. John's Episcopal Hospital, a financially beleaguered hospital in Far Rockaway, N.Y., has begun laying off 40 to 50 employees, according to a report by The Forum.

About one-third of employees at Pemiscot Memorial Health Systems in Hayti, Mo., have been furloughed starting this week, according to the Examiner.

Windber (Pa.) Medical Center has laid off 19 employees, according to a report by The Tribune-Democrat.

Fresno (Calif.) Heart & Surgical Hospital, part of the Fresno-based Community Medical Centers Health Care Network, has laid off 25 employees, according to a report by The Fresno Bee.

Weirton (W.Va.) Medical Center and the Service Employees International Union District 1199 have reached a new three-year contract agreement for the hospital's unionized employees, according to a Herald Star report.