Workforce

Strong hires are the special ingredient in Fortune's most admired companies, according to Korn Ferry. 

Amid today's staff shortages and other workforce challenges, it is more crucial than ever that hospitals and health systems have a leg up when it comes to recruiting and retaining nurses. And multiple organizations are increasingly examining options that provide…

Solving healthcare talent woes is a top challenge for leaders this year. Part of the problem may stem from organizations’ lack of understanding of what matters most to their employees.

Grand Junction, Colo.-based Community Hospital is joining a program aimed at building employment opportunities for young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Hospitals and health systems that embrace scheduling, work roles and overall employment expectations with greater flexibility and agility have a leg up when it comes to retaining nurses age 55 and older, a new focus group study suggests. 

The Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association has adopted a united code of conduct to protect workers and patients from escalating violence in the state's healthcare facilities. 

Upcoming and recent graduates are 85 percent less likely to apply for a job if the salary range is not posted, according to a recent survey from Adobe. 

"The labor market sounds a lot like the Woody Allen joke," Bloomberg columnist and economist Allison Schrager, PhD, wrote in a Jan. 25 opinion piece. "The food is terrible and there is so little of it."

Eleven of the 20 hospitals with the highest contract labor expenditures are located in California, accounting for the top 30 percent. 

IAM Healthcare — a division of the 600,000-member International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers — has called upon Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health and Minneapolis-based Fairview Health System to halt their proposed merger.