Category: Workforce

Nurse-to-patient staffing ratios — typically backed by unions and disliked by hospitals — are up for consideration in legislatures nationwide. 

A proposed regulation drafted by the New York State Department of Health requiring hospitals to assign at least one nurse for every two patients in critical care units was adopted unanimously June 29 by the department’s Public Health and Health Plannin…

Many workers desire the ability to work remotely, even if they only get the option a few days a week. Flexibility allows people to maintain the work-life balance some developed during the pandemic — and in a high-burnout field like healthcare, balance …

Hospitals and health systems continue to grapple with staffing challenges, including shortages. Below are the number of job openings at hospitals that were named to the U.S. News & World Report’s 2022-23 Best Hospitals Honor Roll.

To tackle workplace violence, lawmakers in several states are changing laws or considering changes. 

Young workers are more likely to report that various factors have a major impact on their ability to work efficiently, according to the most recent data from McKinsey & Company.

Businesses nationwide are finding it difficult to hire enough workers, but some states are struggling more than others. 

Employment levels in jobs at hospitals vary across the U.S.

Columbus-based OhioHealth and Columbus State Community College have partnered on an initiative that will double the number of healthcare professionals trained in five fields where there is strong demand from both students and employers.

A third physician has left Norton (Kan.) County Hospital amid the termination of former CEO Brian Kirk.