Three Optum businesses are laying off 58 people in New Jersey, according to June Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act notices. Effective Aug. 26, the layoffs span Optum Select Management in Somerset, Optum Care in Rutherford and Optum Services in Basking Ridge,…
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The American Academy of Physician Associates and the PA Education Association sued the U.S. Department of Education June 3, challenging a final rule that caps graduate and professional student loans and takes effect July 1. Seven things to know: 1.…
Hawaii is launching a $28 million full-tuition program for healthcare students who commit to practicing in rural communities, Honolulu Civil Beat reported June 2. The Hawai’i Outreach for Medical Education in Rural Under-resourced Neighborhoods program will cover tuition and fees…
Delaware has partnered with Philadelphia-based Thomas Jefferson University to establish a regional campus of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, launching the first four-year medical school in the state’s history. Five things to know: 1. Gov. Matt Meyer announced the initiative June…
California enacted new staffing rules for psychiatric hospitals June 1, establishing minimum nurse-to-patient ratios and financial penalties for facilities that fail to comply. The emergency regulations, issued by the California Department of Public Health, were developed after a San Francisco Chronicle investigation into dysfunction,…
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West Virginia has the highest concentration of healthcare workers in the U.S., with 17% of its workforce employed in healthcare, according to a Becker’s analysis of federal employment data. Becker’s analyzed May 2025 employment data from the Bureau of Labor…
More than 24% of mid-career U.S. professionals are employed but without a meaningful promotion or raise for five or more years — a phenomenon researchers call “mid-career stall” — according to a May report from the Burning Glass Institute and…
Conversations around workforce have become the operating equation health systems are building their futures around. Labor costs, retention, language access, learning and the data that ties them all together are increasingly boardroom conversations defining short and long-term strategy. Below are…
Though now fixtures of the healthcare workforce, the physician assistant and nurse practitioner professions started with only a single training program and a handful of graduates. Katie McLaughlin, PhD, executive director of the Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health at…
Generation Z is entering the workforce at a moment of significant disruption, with AI poised to reshape entire industries before many new graduates have found their footing, The Wall Street Journal reported May 27. LinkedIn predicts today’s workforce entrants will…