Employment law in healthcare saw various changes in 2019, including those related to workplace violence and continuing education.
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Fortune released its 100 Best Companies to Work For 2020 list, and nine of the top 10 firms with the most female employees are healthcare providers, including seven health systems.
Here are four hospitals and health systems that have recently raised or plan to raise their minimum wage for employees:
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City is offering thousands of dollars in sign-on bonuses to recruit pathologist assistants and lab technologists, according to job searching site Glassdoor.
New York has the highest number of employed nurse practitioners among all 50 U.S. states, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics data collected in May 2018.
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Amazon's hiring website lists more than 37,800 full-time jobs as of Feb. 17 — most in software development — potentially the most ever listed at once by the tech giant, The Seattle Times reports.
Indiana is among states that had more than 1,500 employed certified registered nurse anesthetists as of May 2018, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
The average age of registered nurses was 47.9 years old in 2018, and 47.5 percent of RNs were 50 or older, according to a new HHS report.
Louisville, Ky.-based Kindred Healthcare is launching a nationwide hiring effort at 63 hospitals in 17 states, reports Daytona Business Journal.
Staffing can be a complicated, stressful and costly challenge for hospitals. Staffing issues not only affect patient care, but also the hospital's bottom line and staff satisfaction. Thus, it is important for hospital leaders to make optimizing staff utilization a…