Workforce

When Trinity Health created its FirstChoice internal staffing agency, it wanted to offer employees, including nurses and other clinicians, greater flexibility to serve in short- and long-term roles in locations across the Livonia, Mich.-based system. The goal, as Gay Landstrom,…

In its effort to enhance patient care and experience, Cleveland-based University Hospitals has engaged its front-line staff to inspire changes.

AdventHealth shared a milestone on Feb. 11: The health system hired its 100,000th employee.

Amid systems ramping up their retention strategies has come an increased focus on improving the work environment. In some cases, this means tweaking the small things.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that healthcare added 43,700 jobs in January, with gains in hospitals, nursing and residential care facilities, and home healthcare services, according to the latest jobs report published Feb. 7. 

Infusion nurses and anesthesiologists are among the fastest-growing healthcare roles in major U.S. cities, according to a Jan. 29 LinkedIn news post.

Healthcare workers were the least likely to agree that artificial intelligence skills are necessary for career advancement, according to a Jan. 30 LinkedIn News post.

Non-physician practitioners are leaving emergency medicine at higher rates and younger ages compared to previous years. 

As a high school junior, he took a class in nursing foundations that changed his life’s trajectory. Esteban Ramirez graduated last May and now studies Biomedical Sciences at the University of Arizona. But before these accomplishments, he set the stage…

Sens. Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, Todd Young, Jack Reed, and Roger Marshall introduced legislation Jan. 28 to reauthorize for five years the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act.