A labor coalition of 11 unions, which staged a strike earlier this month involving tens of thousands of workers in multiple states, is giving Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente a few more weeks to reach a new labor contract before facing another s…
Workforce shortages and disruptions are not new in healthcare. However, in today’s environment, there are new dynamics in the workforce that have become prominent.
Great Falls, Mont.-based Benefis Health System has temporarily closed various hospital beds because of ongoing staffing shortages.
A subsidiary of Fresenius Kabi is recalling more than 374,000 syringes distributed across the U.S.
We all know someone affected by a complex illness. Cancer. Crohn’s disease. Multiple sclerosis.
Brookhaven, Miss.-based King’s Daughter Medical Center has decommissioned its legacy EHR, Meditech Magic, and migrated more than 70,000 patient records to an independent clinical data repository.
Walmart is expanding its virtual primary care options for its employees nationwide through a partnership with Included Health.
As hospitals and health systems begin moving their EHRs and workloads to the cloud, organizations are beginning to see improvements in efficiencies, up-front infrastructure costs and cybersecurity.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed A.B. 1007 into law which requires healthcare facilities to use all tools feasible to remove surgical smoke plumes — making it the 15th state in the nation to do so.
California is the first state to require pharmacists to report every prescription mistake.
