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Intermountain Healthcare, a 25-hospital health system based in Salt Lake City, is making new efforts to invest in the education of its workforce.

A newly created Michigan healthcare coalition is requesting a $650 million bailout amid unprecedented staffing shortages in healthcare facilities around the state, the Detroit Free Press reported Nov. 4. 

Hospitals gained jobs in October after losing them the previous month, according to the latest jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

National Nurses United pushed back against hospital-at-home programs in a Nov. 4 statement, arguing such programs do not offer patients the same level of care and threaten to cut nurses' jobs. 

Healthcare facilities that do not fully vaccinate all eligible staff members by Jan. 4 may face fines or termination of their Medicare or Medicaid contract, CMS said during a Nov. 4 briefing on the new regulations. 

Although generational stereotypes are often exaggerated, some divides do exist between different generations. These divides are being felt in the workplace, with some millennial managers reporting feeling confused and surprised by their Gen Z juniors, Emma Goldberg wrote for The…

To fill staffing gaps, Memorial Hospital at Gulfport (Miss.) is offering inpatient nurses and registered nurses working in long-term care facilities a student loan repayment option, according to the Sun Herald.

U.S. private industry employers reported 2.7 million nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses last year, a decrease from 2.8 million in 2019, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Nov. 3.

The Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued an emergency temporary standard Nov. 4 outlining COVID-19 vaccination requirements for employers with 100 or more employees.

CMS on Nov. 4 issued an emergency regulation that requires COVID-19 vaccination for all eligible staff at healthcare facilities participating in Medicare and Medicaid programs.