Category: Workforce

Brewer, Maine-based Northern Light Health is transferring 1,400 of its employees to Eden Prairie, Minn.-based health services company Optum, the Portland Press Herald reported Jan. 5. 

The idea for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s MomForce Program came about while Linda Matzigkeit was mixing cement. 

The term “quiet quitting” — referring to a phenomenon in which employees reduce their enthusiasm at work and stick to the minimum expectations of their role — gained traction on social media and in the news over the last year. However, the term is only…

Admissions are surging at Columbia, Mo.-based University Hospital, and the community is stepping up to take meal prep off employees’ plates, the Columbia Missourian reported Jan. 2. 

Linton, Ind.-based Greene County General Hospital now has its own police department, 98.5FM reported Dec. 27. 

The Pennsylvania State Police are investigating a shooting that occurred outside the Danville-based Geisinger Medical Center campus and took the life of a hospital employee.

As curtains close on the holiday season, historical data suggests that layoffs are right around the corner, The Wall Street Journal reported Dec. 16. 

For many American workers, 2022 was the year the workplace grew quiet. 

Healthcare workers at a behavioral health facility in New Jersey have secured pay increases of up to 11 percent over four years as well as freezes on their health premiums, New Jersey news service tapinto.net reported Dec. 28. 

Reports of physical and verbal violence against healthcare workers are on the increase and now an Indiana congressman wants to introduce legislation to make such attacks a federal crime, a local CBS4 report said.