Category: human resources

Members of SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West at Stanford Medical Center and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., have reached a tentative agreement that raises wages and increases the minimum wage.

Healthcare workers have participated in labor strikes across the U.S., citing concerns about staffing, patient care, working conditions and employee retention. But there are several situations where such walkouts were averted after contracts were reach…

Members of the Michigan Nurses Association at Ascension Borgess Hospital in Kalamazoo have approved a new three-year contract with hospital administration.

The Vanderbilt Health network has suspended one of its hospital’s chief of staff following his arrest after a holiday work party over the weekend. 

Members of the Minnesota Nurses Association have approved three-year contracts with hospital executives that include pay raises and language to address staffing.

Members of Teamsters Union Local 170 are set to strike Dec. 26 at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Mass.  

Members of the California Nurses Association are set to begin a nine-day strike Dec. 24 at Sutter Health’s Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, which has campuses in Oakland and Berkeley.

The United States government issued a $1.78 million fine against Worcester, Mass.-based Saint Vincent Hospital after it overcharged Medicare for inpatient services, including cardiac surgeries. Nurses are “outraged” at the hospital’s leadership and its…

Members of the Michigan Nurses Association at Ascension Borgess Hospital in Kalamazoo have reached a tentative agreement with hospital management.

Four employees at Emory University Hospital Midtown in Atlanta no longer work there after discussing patient “icks” in a TikTok video, The Washington Post reported Dec. 12.