Category: Workforce

Mass General Brigham offers buyouts for digital staff

Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham is offering employees in its technology division buyouts in a bid to trim its workforce, the Boston Herald reported Nov. 9.

CMS imposes hiring freeze

CMS has been under a partial hiring freeze since July, Politico reported Nov. 8.

Is a holiday quitting spree on the horizon?

Christmas vacation might turn permanent for a certain group of employees, according to a November report from management consulting firm Korn Ferry. 

Minnesota hospital lays off 30 as nursing home closes

Cloquet, Minn.-based Community Memorial Hospital is laying off 30 staff at a nursing home it operates on the hospital campus.

Sutter Health workers picket outside psychiatric hospital

Approximately 150 healthcare workers picketed outside the Sutter Center for Psychiatry hospital in Sacramento, Calif., Nov. 8 to protest wages and claim the system is “anti-union,” according to a Nov. 8 report from The Sacramento Bee.

'Quiet ambition' could spell trouble for succession plans

The past few years have been riddled with sources of anxiety nationwide: a pandemic, political and social unrest, inflation, job insecurity, a potential recession. As a result, some people’s goals have changed to center their own well-being — as oppose…

Health systems can't 'recruit our way out of a workforce shortage'

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic’s 2030 strategy is simple: to cure, connect and transform. But to get there, the world-renowned health system needs a robust people strategy developing the workforce of the future. 

'Caring for the caregivers': 7 CEO influencers on reviving joy

Hospital and health system CEOs are in a position to influence their workforces, as well as healthcare altogether. As they connect with their teams, they have unique opportunities to support clinicians and their well-being. 

LifeBridge Health's winning formula for a thriving physician workforce

As a community health system in a market saturated with large and internationally renowned health systems, Baltimore-based LifeBridge Health is highly focused on fostering a positive work environment to attract and retain physicians amid a worsening sh…

The 'Great Retirement' persists

The U.S. saw a surplus of retirees amid the pandemic, and fewer adults than expected have reentered the workforce as COVID-19 threats fade, Bloomberg reported Nov. 6.