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Pittsburgh-based Highmark Health, parent company of insurer Highmark and Allegheny Health Network in Pittsburgh, said it will begin bringing about 1,200 nonclinical employees back to their offices July 6.   

Healthcare workers in the Chicago area are seeing their benefits and pay reduced as hospitals grapple with the financial challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, CBS 2 reports.

The Federal Reserve is predicting a slow economic recovery from the recession spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, The New York Times reported.

Pennsylvania's state health secretary issued an order June 9 requiring all hospitals to better protect staff from COVID-19. 

U.S. job openings hit a record low in April while turnovers decreased to 9.9 million, according to the latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

The need to respond to medical emergencies at protest sites is creating unprecedented working conditions for emergency medical services teams already burdened by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Kaiser Health News.

Physicians, nurses and emergency medical technicians are now dealing with the physical, mental and emotional effects from their experiences on the front lines of the pandemic.  

At least 586 U.S. front-line healthcare workers have died of COVID-19, according to a new count published June 6 by The Guardian and Kaiser Health News.

A record number of nurses and healthcare workers have lost their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic as hospitals halted revenue-generating elective surgeries and routine procedures, according to Newsweek.

Healthcare added 312,400 jobs in May, primarily in ambulatory healthcare services, while job losses at hospitals continued, according to the latest jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.