Category: Workforce

NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst (N.Y.) opened a Wellness Center to support its 6,000 employees.

Workers used to aim to make themselves indispensable in order to survive layoffs. Now, many say there’s no such thing, The Wall Street Journal reported April 3. 

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is set to open its healthcare career-focused high school in 2025. 

Primary care providers who commit to practicing in shortage areas for two years may have as much as $75,000 in medical student debt forgiven through the Health Resources and Services Administration.

About 3.2 million registered nurses are employed in the U.S., and California is the state with the highest employment level in RNs, according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, released April 3 and reflecting information from …

Healthcare jobs continued to grow in March, with certain areas of the sector showing strong growth on top of February’s numbers. 

American workers are 400% more productive than they were when the Fair Labor Standards Act established a 40-hour workweek in 1940. But CEOs — not employees — are reaping the fruits of that labor, according to a March 19 opinion article in The Washingto…

A proposed bill in California that would increase penalties for violence against emergency department workers has passed one body of the state legislature and awaits consideration in another.

Workplace violence is front and center in healthcare, with clinicians increasingly saying the issue has led them to change or leave a job. As hospitals look to establish and strengthen a culture of safety, some have invested heavily into weapons detect…

Emporia, Kan.-based Newman Regional Health has significantly improved its staffing and is looking to go agency-free by late summer or early spring in an attempt to continue improving local patient experience.