The U.S. House of Representatives has approved legislation that targets workplace violence in healthcare settings, including violence against nurses, emergency responders, medical assistants and physicians, according to The Hill and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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The healthcare workforce declined by 44,000 jobs in the first three months of this year, compared to the end of 2020, according to an analysis released April 16 by nonprofit researchers Altarum.
Great Falls, Mont.-based Benefis Health System will make the COVID-19 vaccine mandatory for employees, the organization told Becker's.
Houston Methodist managers had a deadline of April 15 to receive at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine as part of the system's mandate. The numbers are in: 99.4 percent of the management team has complied.
New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health has established the virtual Center for Traumatic Stress, Resilience and Recovery to address mental health needs of its 76,000 employees, their families and community members, the health system said April 14.
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Most Laconia, N.H.-based LRGHealthcare employees have joined or received job offers to join Concord (N.H.) Hospital ahead of the proposed sale of two LRGHealthcare hospitals to Concord Hospital, according to a joint news release.
A Facebook account claiming to be a recruitment channel for Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine and its facilities spread fake job listings, AFP Fact Check, a global fact-checking organization, reported April 12.
The number of certified physician assistants grew 6.52 percent between 2018 and 2019, with Rhode Island, Mississippi and New Jersey seeing the largest increases among states, according to a report released April 7 by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants.
More than 3,600 U.S. healthcare workers died of COVID-19 and its complications nationwide in the first year of the pandemic, according to an investigation by Kaiser Health News and The Guardian.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been stressful for front-line healthcare workers, particularly younger ones, a Kaiser Family Foundation/The Washington Post national poll found.