Nearly 9,000 employees of Louisville, Ky.-based Kindred Healthcare would join Glenview, Ill.-based Select Rehabilitation under a pending deal between the two, Kindred confirmed to Becker's.
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Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital in Plattsburgh, N.Y., part of Burlington-based University of Vermont Health Network, has restructured 12 departments, affecting 469 employees, the hospital confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review.
Lawrence + Memorial Hospital in New London, Conn., said it will test 80 employees from three departments amid a COVID-19 outbreak at the facility.
Nearly 20,000 Amazon and Whole Foods Market front-line employees across the U.S. have tested positive or been presumed positive for COVID-19, Amazon announced Oct. 1.
Healthcare added 52,800 jobs in September, with hospitals losing jobs for the first month since May, according to the latest jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Mothers of children under age 12 lost jobs at three times the rate of fathers between February and August in a trend that threatens to reverse decades of progress in gender equity and overall household income gains for the middle…
A sampling of U.S. hospitals and healthcare sites where employees have tested positive for COVID-19, as reported in September:
Health department officials have identified Erlanger Health System's main hospital and CHI Memorial Hospital's main campus, both in Chattanooga, Tenn., as COVID-19 clusters on a list provided to the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
Prioritizing all front-line healthcare workers for receiving a COVID-19 vaccine once it is available may not necessarily be the most ethical distribution approach, panelists recently told the National Vaccine Advisory Committee, according to CNBC.
Forty percent of healthcare workers with COVID-19 were not showing symptoms when they were diagnosed, according to a new meta-analysis published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.