Workforce

Up to 2,000 employees of Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth-Hitchcock will continue to work remotely in some capacity after the COVID-19 pandemic subsides, The Valley News reported July 5. This represents about 13 percent of the health system's total workforce. 

Worcester, Mass.-based St. Vincent Hospital and nurses will head to the negotiating table July 9, according to the Telegram & Gazette. 

Worcester, Mass.-based St. Vincent Hospital nurses are traveling to Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare to "speak directly to the corporate executives" amid a monthslong strike, according to MassLive. 

Healthcare lost more than 12,000 jobs in June, with hospitals seeing another month of job losses after a slight uptick in May, according to the latest jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield launched a pilot program in June to bring employees back to the office in the wake of the pandemic.

The American Hospital Association is calling for an extension for facilities to comply with new COVID-19 workplace safety rules for healthcare.

Several factors are shaping what one economist calls a "weird summer" for the U.S. labor market. How's it playing out in healthcare? 

Medical University of South Carolina Health employees were provided a final deadline of June 30 to be vaccinated against COVID-19, or to obtain a medical or religious exemption, as part of the Charleston-based system's mandate.

Cigna's Denison, Texas center is permanently shifting 500 employees to entirely remote work, vacating the facility altogether. 

The Houston Chronicle recently spoke with patients and workers at Houston Methodist after 153 employees resigned during a two-week suspension period or were terminated June 22 for not complying with the health system's COVID-19 vaccine mandate.