Workforce

A measure that proposes to raise the minimum wage for some healthcare workers in Los Angeles to $25 an hour will go before voters in 2024.

Penn Highlands Healthcare plans to expand the Clearfield (Pa.) County Career and Technology Center's practical nursing program by sponsoring tuition for students who sign an employment agreement.

Association of American Medical Colleges President and CEO David Skorton, MD, and National Academy of Medicine President Victor Dzau, MD, are urging more action to address violence against healthcare workers.

Lansing, Mich.-based Sparrow Health System will make "several hundred" job cuts, primarily in leadership and non-patient care roles, the Lansing State Journal reported Sept. 29. 

Over 22 percent of nursing positions in Kentucky hospitals are unfilled, according to a Sept. 29 report from the Kentucky Hospital Association.

The nursing program at Decatur, Ill.-based Richland Community College received a $3.2 million grant to address a nursing shortage in central Illinois, according to a Sept. 29 report from CBS affiliate WCIA.

The Texas Department of State Health Services provided $21 million to fund emergency medical service scholarships to help interested Texans complete education and training to begin careers in the EMS field.

While U.S. hybrid employees are in various roles within companies, managers are struggling the most with this working model, Gallup finds.

Four out of 10 Americans, or 38 percent, believe there is a significant difference between the culture their workplace claims to have and reality.

The University of Iowa in Iowa City has teamed up with Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for a new three-plus-one nursing program, ABC affiliate KCRG reported Sept. 20.