Dayton, Ohio-based Premier Health said it is reducing its workforce by about 1 percent to 2 percent amid financial challenges and other industry pressures during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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More than 250 healthcare workers in Southern and Western states died of COVID-19 and its complications this summer as the virus surged in those areas, according to a tally from Kaiser Health News and The Guardian.
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a significant toll on the U.S. female workforce, with 865,000 women leaving the job market in September compared to 216,000 men during the same month, according to an analysis by the National Women's Law Center.
Baptist Health, a nine-hospital system based in Louisville, Ky., said it is paying employees to work at polls in the Nov. 3 general election.
Guidance from Oregon's public health agency recommending that hospitals not perform internal COVID-19 contact tracing for healthcare providers has prompted concerns from employees about coronavirus exposure, The Oregonian reported.
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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.
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.