Allan Calonge, chief people officer at Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health, will be thinking about how to support workers' intrinsic desires in 2024.
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Workforce retention is top of mind for the many healthcare leaders as staffing shortages run rampant.
The post-pandemic labor force has 1.5 million fewer individuals with some post-secondary education short of a bachelor's degree. This shortfall is hitting healthcare hardest, affecting wages and qualification levels among jobholders.
Minnesota hospitals have lost nearly 1,000 hospital beds since 2020, MPR News reported Dec. 20.
Hospitals are seeing more relief on the job front as wider labor conditions become less volatile, according to a Dec. 20 report from Fitch Ratings.
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Managers' attempts to quell quiet quitting may be having the opposite effect than they intended, Forbes reported Dec. 14.
Five healthcare professions have made a new ranking of America's most stressful jobs.
Hospitals and nurses in Texas have developed a toolkit to help facilities comply with two new state laws designed to better protect healthcare employees from workplace violence.
All promotions are not created equally — and if leaders do not handle them appropriately, they could have a negative effect on employee retention, according to a Dec. 7 article in SHRM.
Most hospitals and health systems are bolstering pay and benefits to help attract and retain talent amid increasing employee turnover, which is expected to continue to challenge the healthcare industry in 2024, according to a Dec. 13 survey published by…