Stephanie Bouchard
Healthcare and social assistance employment continued to rise in February reported the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, gaining 61,000 jobs.
The saga of the National Labor Relations Board's "Notice Posting Rule" will continue despite a ruling late last week affirming that the NLRB can require most private businesses to put up posters informing workers that they have the right to form a union.
Less than a week after its health subcommittee voted to approve a bill repealing the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), the full House Energy and Commerce Committee followed suit. Tuesday's voice vote passed without recorded opposition.
Quality professionals working in the healthcare industry made an average of $85,473 in 2011, reports the American Society for Quality in its annual salary survey, but it’s the job trends that it hints at that offer a glimpse of the future.
When Wes Bledsoe the co-founder of Oklahoma City-based citizen’s advocacy group, A Perfect Cause, gets into heated discussions about allowing sex offenders to reside in nursing homes, he is not above using shock value to get his point across. “Put them in day care centers with children,” he says.
One of the solutions consistently offered to the problems of increasing healthcare costs and the shortage of primary care physicians is allowing advance practice registered nurses (APRNs), such as nurse practitioners, to practice independently. States considering such legislation are finding it's a hotly debated issue that often pits APRNs against physicians.
The U.S. Department of Labor has extended the comment period on its proposed rule to provide minimum wage and overtime protections to in-home care workers to March 12. The original comment period was scheduled to close on Feb. 27.
With the numbers of Alzheimer’s disease patients expected to reach 13.2 million coupled with an estimated price tag of $1.1 trillion (in 2011 dollars) by 2050, lawmakers and those in the healthcare industry know how imperative it is that the country get a handle on the disease.
The House Energy and Commerce Health Committee yesterday voted 17 to 5 to approve a bill that repeals the hotly-debated Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB).
A Texas doctor, his office manager and five owners of home health agencies were arrested Tuesday in what law enforcement officials are calling "the largest alleged home health fraud scheme ever committed."