California has the highest hourly mean wage for registered nurses in the U.S., while Oregon has the highest hourly mean wage for RNs when adjusted for cost of living, according to data released May 15 by the Bureau of Labor…
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Nurse practitioners in Arkansas saw a 12% increase in average pay between 2024 and 2025, the highest jump across all states, according to data published May 15 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. While California continues to pay the highest…
The state of Washington sued Providence Health & Services on May 13, claiming the Renton, Wash.-based health system failed to provide legally required accommodations to pregnant and nursing employees. The lawsuit, filed in King County Superior Court, stems from an…
A statewide strike involving tens of thousands of University of California healthcare and service workers was canceled after AFSCME Local 3299 and the university reached a tentative labor agreement early May 14, according to statements shared with Becker’s. The open-ended…
Nearly 3,000 nurses at Evanston, Ill.-based Endeavor Health are seeking to unionize over staff shortages and pay cuts, the Chicago Sun-Times reported May 8. Four things to know: 1. Nurses at four of Endeavor’s nine hospitals would be represented by…
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Members of the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals are set to begin a five-day strike May 19 at Butler (Pa.) Memorial Hospital, part of Greensburg, Pa.-based Independence Health System. Four things to know: 1. The union represents…
Flint, Mich.-based Insight Health System and former employees reached an agreement April 28 in a lawsuit over its layoffs. Five things to know: 1. David McCullough, a laid-off employee, filed the lawsuit April 1, 2025, against Insight Foundation of Hillside,…
Health systems today are caught in a familiar squeeze: shrinking primary care margins, a physician workforce stretched thin by burnout and patients increasingly seeking out more personalized care options. For a growing number of health system leaders, concierge medicine has…
Registered nurses and other healthcare professionals at the George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C., are backing a decertification petition filed with the National Labor Relations Board seeking an election on whether to remove the District of Columbia Nurses Association…
Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health, part of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, has agreed to pay $1,563,000 to settle a class action lawsuit alleging the system shortchanged hourly workers through time-rounding and automatic meal-break deductions, according to court filings accessed by Becker’s.…