HR

Administrators at St. John's Hospital in Springfield, Ill., have approved a plan that would slash the pay of part-time nurses by 20 percent, according to a State Journal-Register report.

Here are six statistics on jobs in the healthcare sector in 2012, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Slightly more than half — 51 percent — of healthcare employers plan to hire full-time workers in the next six months of the year, according to CareerBuilder and MiracleWorkers.com's most recent national survey.

Officials from Dunkirk, N.Y.-based Lake Erie Regional Health System of New York have released the details of the system's May layoffs, according to a report by The Observer.

Orange, Calif.-based St. Joseph Health plans to lay of 37 employees across two hospitals, according to a report by The Press Democrat.

Maine Medical Center in Portland has offered roughly 400 employees early retirement buyouts, according to a Portland Press Herald report.

U.S. hospitals are spending more on healthcare than other U.S. employers. But their greater investment fails to yield a healthier or better-performing workforce. On the contrary, as Towers Watson research shows, hospital workers report more health conditions and rate their…

Denver Health will cut roughly 300 jobs in the next year through layoffs, attrition and reduction in new hires, according to the Denver Post.

Abington (Pa.) Health, Philadelphia-based Aria Health and Einstein Healthcare Network, also in Philadelphia, have developed a new initiative to jointly manage their employees' healthcare benefit plans.

Little Rock, Ark.-based Baptist Health plans to lay off 170 employees by the end of this week, according to an Arkansas Business report.