Workforce

The Michigan State Medical Society has raised concerns that an 8 percent cut in Medicare and Medicaid funds may exacerbate an already staggering number of physicians that leave the state after completing their residency training, according to a report in…

A recent Bureau of Labor Statistics report predicting the fastest growing jobs in the next 10 years shows that seven of the top 15 are in healthcare.

After losing $62 million from investments in the plummeting financial markets of late 2008, the Cleveland Clinic has recovered and plans to add 1,800 new jobs in 2010, according to a report by the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Deaconess Hospital in Cincinnati plans to close its ED in January, according to a report by the Cincinnati Business Journal.

St. Mary's Good Samaritan Hospital in Mt. Vernon, Ill., has announced that it will begin construction on a new campus next year, according to WSIL News.

St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan will lay off 180 employees as part of plans to transform itself into a "community teaching hospital," according to a report by Crain's New York Business.

Three nursing organizations have merged to form National Nurses United, billed as the largest nurses' union in the country, according to a release from National Nurses United.

A study by AMN Healthcare of 285 hospital CEOs found that despite the recession, there are still too few physicians, nurses and allied healthcare professionals in the United States, according to an AMN Healthcare news release.

Reid Hospital in Richmond, Ind., is buying up more practices as an older generation of "entrepreneurial" physicians dies out, according to a report in the Palladium-Item.

Employment rose 0.14 percent in hospitals and 0.16 percent in physicians' offices in November but fell 0.60 percent in outpatient care centers, which include ASCs, according to a release by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.