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Cook County Health and Hospitals System has begun to notify 335 employees who will be laid off and has cut and additional 700 vacant positions in order to cut $60 million from its budget, according to a report in the…

Royal Oak, Mich.-based Beaumont Hospitals has announced plans to layoff an additional 353 employees as well as freeze pay and reduce employee vacation and sick days, according to a report by the Detroit Free Press.

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Primary care physicians were the most sought after medical professionals to fill openings on a temporary basis, according to the 2009 Survey of Temporary Physician Staffing Trends conducted by Staff Care, a nationwide temporary physician staffing firm and AMN Healthcare…

With the latest movement of physicians being employed (again) by hospitals and healthcare systems around the country, physician retention is critical to creating any sort of return on investment with this venture. Hospital leadership must be proactive in developing a…

Here are the top 10 states which had the lowest number of registered nurses per 100,000 people in 2008, with number of nurses per 100,000 people, according to The Kaiser Family Foundation.

Here are the top 10 states which had the highest number of registered nurses per 100,000 people in 2008, with number of nurses per 100,000 people, according to The Kaiser Family Foundation.

The healthcare sector added around 20,000 jobs in July, in line with the average month gain seen in the first half of 2009, according to a news release from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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