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Federal data released this week showed that healthcare professionals account for 9,282 of the 315,531 COVID-19 cases nationwide, their median age is 42, and 73 percent of them are female.

Hospitals and health systems should think about employee health and safety in a broad way and address the whole person, mentally, physically, emotionally and financially amid the COVID-19 pandemic, said Lori Knowles, chief human resources officer of Houston-based Memorial Hermann…

Three nurses from Alabama who were recruited to work in New York City hospitals amid the COVID-19 pandemic are suing a staffing firm after finding what they considered to be unsafe working conditions, according to a recently filed lawsuit cited…

Naples, Fla.-based NCH Healthcare System has quarantined 78 employees amid the COVID-19 pandemic, including 66 employees quarantined after a possible "exposure incident," the News-Press reported.

Southfield, Mich.-based Beaumont Health is offering to test employees' blood as part of a study of COVID-19 antibodies.

The number of confirmed employee COVID-19 cases at Boston's major teaching hospitals had reached nearly 1,000 as of April 13, according to TV station WCVB.  

The number of Henry Ford Health System employees testing positive for COVID-19 has grown by more than 200 since March 12, the health system reported.

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente and its unions have agreed on an expanded set of temporary benefits to help staff during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the unions and Kaiser.

New York City-based NYC Health + Hospitals will hire 500 nonclinical staff during the COVID-19 pandemic, the city mayor's office announced April 12.

A pathbreaking 2019 study by the National Academy of Medicine found that clinicians are dealing with chronic job stresses and face mounting system pressures with virtually unattainable demands. As a result, 35 to 54 percent of U.S. nurses and physicians…