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A recent report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) shows that with the increase in the number of baby boomers reaching 65, there is an increasing shortage of professionals who provide geriatric mental health services.
With the financial pressures that healthcare organizations are facing, many hospitals are using traditional cost cutting methods to save money by looking at layoffs and staff reductions. Many more hospitals, however, are finding ways to reduce costs through lean management methods that don't require layoffs and can improve quality for patients.
The American Hospital Association's (AHA) Physician Leadership Forum released a new white paper recently that discusses and examines the core competencies that are necessary in order to deliver coordinated, team-based, value-driven care, as well as recommendations for how healthcare organizations can learn to develop these skills in the upcoming generation of new physicians.
Near-term demand for healthcare workers is the strongest in San Jose, Calif., Portland, Ore. and Charlotte, N.C., says Health Workforce Solutions LLC's Labor Market Pulse Index released Friday for Q2 2012.
It's no secret that solo practice by doctors has been diminishing. But a new finding by recruitment firm Merritt Hawkins declares that solo practice is all but dead.
While news outlets pointed out the disappointing June jobs numbers Friday, the healthcare sector continued to add jobs, gaining more than 13,000.
The healthcare economy is expected to grow at twice the rate of the national economy between now and 2020 and will create an additional 5.6 million jobs over those eight years, according to a report released by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.
Integrity, compassion and perseverance are the key traits of an effective leader, Captain Chesley Sullenberger, who successfully landed a plane on the Hudson River in January 2009, told an audience of healthcare financial managers at HFMA's ANI conference in Las Vegas on Monday.
A new report from the Battelle/Biotechnology Industry Organization shows that U.S. jobs in the biosciences industry are booming.
Pharmaceutical sales representatives are not eligible for overtime pay ruled the United States Supreme Court.