Workforce

The healthcare industry saw the addition of 20,100 jobs in April 2010, according to a news release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Of 77 counties in Oklahoma, 59 do not meet the national standard of one primary care physician for every 3,500 residents, according to a report from News9.com. This puts Oklahoma dead last in the nation.

Chicago's Swedish Covenant Hospital has awarded employees a total of $1.5 million in retroactive raises now that it is making an operating profit, according to a report by the Chicago Sun-Times.

Hospital employment increased 0.04 percent to nearly 4.706 million, with seasonal adjustment, during March, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

After working for months without a contract, nurses and other health professionals, members of the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals, at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia walked off the job, according to a report in the Philadelphia…

St. Louis-based Sisters of Mercy Health System, a 26-hospital system that operates in four states, is planning a restructuring that will involve laying off 226 employees and eliminating 288 unfilled positions, according to a report in the St. Louis Business…

New York City's Health and Hospitals Corp., the largest public hospital system in the nation, plans to cut its workforce by 10 percent over the next two years, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The New York…

Salary and benefits at an efficiently run hospital make up 35-42 percent of net patient revenue, according to Jim Rolfe, managing director of transaction services at VMG Health in Dallas.

The number of licensed registered nurses in the United States grew by 5.3 percent from 2004-2008 to a record 3.06 million, but almost half of RNs are over age 50, according to a release by the Health Resources and Services…

The Minnesota Nurses Association has begun contract negotiations with six hospital systems in the Twin Cities area — North Memorial Health Care, HealthEast Care System, Allina Hospitals & Clinics, Park Nicollet Health Services' Methodist Hospital, Children's Hospitals and Clinics of…