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Baptist Health to pay employees to work as precinct election officers
Baptist Health, a nine-hospital system based in Louisville, Ky., said it is paying employees to work at polls in the Nov. 3 general election.
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Oregon hospital employees balk at state's internal COVID-19 contact-tracing policy recommendation
Guidance from Oregon's public health agency recommending that hospitals not perform internal COVID-19 contact tracing for healthcare providers has prompted concerns from employees about coronavirus exposure, The Oregonian reported.
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8,800 Kindred employees could join Select Rehabilitation
Nearly 9,000 employees of Louisville, Ky.-based Kindred Healthcare would join Glenview, Ill.-based Select Rehabilitation under a pending deal between the two, Kindred confirmed to Becker's.
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Hours of 69 workers cut in Upstate New York hospital restructuring
Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital in Plattsburgh, N.Y., part of Burlington-based University of Vermont Health Network, has restructured 12 departments, affecting 469 employees, the hospital confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review.
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Where hospital employees have tested positive for COVID-19: October
A sampling of U.S. hospitals and healthcare sites where employees have tested positive for COVID-19, as reported in October:
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Lawrence + Memorial Hospital to test 80 workers amid COVID-19 outbreak
Lawrence + Memorial Hospital in New London, Conn., said it will test 80 employees from three departments amid a COVID-19 outbreak at the facility.
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Amazon says nearly 20,000 employees have contracted COVID-19
Nearly 20,000 Amazon and Whole Foods Market front-line employees across the U.S. have tested positive or been presumed positive for COVID-19, Amazon announced Oct. 1.
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52,800 healthcare jobs added in September; hospitals see job loss
Healthcare added 52,800 jobs in September, with hospitals losing jobs for the first month since May, according to the latest jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Mothers 3 times more likely than fathers to have lost jobs during pandemic
Mothers of children under age 12 lost jobs at three times the rate of fathers between February and August in a trend that threatens to reverse decades of progress in gender equity and overall household income gains for the middle class, according to analysis from Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts.
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Erlanger, CHI Memorial hospitals identified as employee COVID-19 clusters
Health department officials have identified Erlanger Health System's main hospital and CHI Memorial Hospital's main campus, both in Chattanooga, Tenn., as COVID-19 clusters on a list provided to the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
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Who gets coronavirus vaccine first? Maybe not all front-line healthcare workers, HHS committee told
Prioritizing all front-line healthcare workers for receiving a COVID-19 vaccine once it is available may not necessarily be the most ethical distribution approach, panelists recently told the National Vaccine Advisory Committee, according to CNBC.
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40% of healthcare workers asymptomatic when testing positive for COVID-19, analysis finds
Forty percent of healthcare workers with COVID-19 were not showing symptoms when they were diagnosed, according to a new meta-analysis published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
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California hospitals, nursing homes accused of lax coronavirus protection, face more than $77K in fines
California's Occupational Safety and Health division has proposed $77,040 in penalties for five hospitals and skilled nursing facilities that it says failed to protect employees during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Feds launch probe into hiring practices at VA Connecticut health system
A federal agency is investigating the VA Connecticut Healthcare System after a union complaint alleging illegal employment practices, the nonprofit Connecticut Health Investigative Team reported.
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COVID-19 cluster at Kentucky hospital prompts testing of 100 employees
UK Good Samaritan Hospital in Lexington, Ky., tested about 100 employees after a cluster of COVID-19 cases developed at the facility, the hospital confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review.
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Where hospital employees have tested positive for COVID-19: September
A sampling of U.S. hospitals and healthcare sites where employees have tested positive for COVID-19, as reported in September:
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How Forbes' best employers are improving employee satisfaction
Fireside chats, food and town hall meetings are among the ways hospitals and health systems have boosted employee satisfaction during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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24 COVID-19 cases linked to outbreak at Carilion Roanoke
Twenty-four environmental services employees at Carilion Roanoke (Va.) Memorial Hospital recently tested positive for COVID-19, a spokesperson confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review.
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8 benefits health systems offer to retain top talent
Retaining talent is a top concern for health systems, and they're offering benefits to help keep employees engaged, according to a recent survey from Aon.
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How NYC Health + Hospitals is supporting its staff's mental wellness
New York City Health + Hospitals provided an update on staff mental wellness programs at the 11-hospital safety-net system.
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