Advocate Health Care Location: Downers Grove, Ill. Type of company: Hospital/health system Meet the organization: With more than 34,000 employees, 12-hospital Advocate Health Care is one of Chicagoland’s largest employers of healthcare professionals. It has demonstrated its commitment to professional…
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In her breakout book, “Lean In,” Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and a former top Google executive, devotes an entire chapter to the importance of mentorship. The chapter is cleverly titled “Are You My Mentor?” and it highlights the struggles…
Pittsburgh-based Highmark has laid off 132 information technology and sales employees, according to a WPXI report.
These days, clinical documentation improvement is on everyone's mind. As hospital's focus on ramping up documentation to prepare for ICD-10, the demand for CDI specialists continues to grow. In fact, more than 80 percent of all hospitals will have a…
Aberdeen, S.D.-based Avera St. Luke's Hospital has begun offering some employees early retirement packages and has laid off other employees, according to an Aberdeen News report.
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Labor costs are the biggest drivers of expenses in most healthcare organizations. A significant portion of hospital executives' time and resources are spent on efforts to reduce labor costs without affecting patient safety or quality of care.
Jason Frizzell, consultant with healthcare employee assessment firm Select International, wrote a blog post highlighting three red flags about an employee.
Community paramedicine, a community-based healthcare model in which paramedics have expanded roles, can help reduce inappropriate emergency department visits, according to a report by the Institute for Population Health Improvement at Sacramento, Calif.-based UC Davis Health System.
Pharmacy jobs had the most notable growth in number of postings on HealtheCareers Network, a healthcare recruiting solution for providers and job-seekers, from Q4 2012 to Q1 2013, according to the report "Q1 2013 Healthcare Jobs Snapshot," released by HealtheCareers.
San Mateo, Calif.-based Doximity, a professional networking site for physicians, has launched a career matching service for member physicians.