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Employees of San Francisco-based Dignity Health held an informational picket Saturday outside Arroyo Grande (Calif.) Community Hospital to protest poor wages, according to a Santa Maria Times report.

Portland-based Maine Medical Center has announced it will lay off 50 employees and eliminate 175 other positions, according to a Bangor Daily News report.

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Nurses rallied Monday outside the North Central Bronx (N.Y.) Hospital to protest the closing the hospital's labor and delivery services, according to a Norwood News report.

Even though Plainsboro, N.J.-based Princeton HealthCare System has eliminated 45 full-time positions this year, the system hired 53 employees in July, according to a NJ Times report.

The healthcare sector added just 2,500 jobs in July, the lowest monthly gain for the industry since July 2003, according to the latest labor brief from the Altarum Institute based on July 2013 Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

Oakland, Calif.-based Alameda Health System is preparing to lay off about 57 workers, according to a Contra Costa Times report.

In the next year, 30 percent of healthcare workers are likely to look for a new position, according to the latest quarterly Randstad Healthcare Employee Confidence Index.

Ukiah (Calif.) Valley Medical Center has eliminated six positions and made other workforce reductions, according to a report by the Ukiah Daily Journal.

Mountain States Health Alliance in Johnson City, Tenn., is cutting 200 jobs through attrition, according to a Johnson City Press report.