Workforce

Humana plans to hire 200 employees in the San Antonio area to help with virtual enrollment, according to News 4 SA.

Healthcare added 358,000 jobs in June, with hospitals seeing their first modest gain since March, according to the latest jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Self-monitoring for COVID-19 symptom progression among healthcare workers is a likely indicator of spread of the illness, according to a new study published by PLOS ONE.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound effect on women in the healthcare workforce as they strive more than ever to balance work and home responsibilities.  

MUSC Health, an eight-hospital system based in Charleston, S.C., has called back many employees who were temporarily laid off due to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Post and Courier reports.

Many tech professionals feel positively about seeking new jobs in the healthcare and pharma industries amid the pandemic, according to survey results released June 25 from Swiss drugmaker Novartis.

McLaren Bay Region Hospital, a 404-bed hospital in Bay City, Mich., is ending EMS services and eliminating 74 jobs, but emergency transportation services will move to a new provider, MLive.com reports. 

A total of 55 employees at Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital have tested positive for COVID-19 during the pandemic, a hospital official confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review.

HHS has awarded $107.2 million in funding to go toward increasing the healthcare workforce in rural and underserved communities.

A total of 17.7 million healthcare workers are potentially ineligible for emergency paid sick leave benefits through the federal Families First Coronavirus Response Act, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation analysis.