Category: Workforce

Oversight of the COVID-19 vaccination mandate covering healthcare facilities participating in Medicare and Medicaid will no longer be part of all CMS surveys.

Designing hospitals that promote well-being of employees can help address workforce challenges such as burnout and turnover among staff, Harvard Business Review reported June 14. 

 Providence is looking at an opportunity to reduce its administrative real estate footprint at its headquarters in Renton, Wash.

Buffalo, N.Y.-based Kaleida Health has committed to adding hundreds of jobs under a state law signed last year mandating hospitals to establish clinical staffing committees. 

Rusty Holman, MD, former chief medical officer of Brentwood, Tenn.-based Lifepoint Health, launched his own company June 13. 

When Marcelle Davis, PhD, joined Richmond, Va.-based VCU Health System in the fall of 2020, a large part of her goal revolved around initiatives to improve inclusivity.

Employment differs considerably among healthcare occupations.

Healthcare workers can use social media to encourage vaccination against COVID-19, but many are not doing so, according to a study published June 8.

Advocate Aurora Health is paying nurses and other staff members to step away from their jobs for a day to participate in a “renewal day” focused on employee wellness and connection.  

U.S. Reps. Madeleine Dean, D-Pa., and Larry Bucshon, MD, R-Ind., introduced a bill June 7 to protect healthcare workers from violence that is modeled after existing protections for aircraft and airport workers.