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The National Health Service Corps (NHSC) awarded $9.1 million in funding to 77 medical students in 30 states and the District of Columbia who will serve as primary care doctors in medically underserved areas and help strengthen the healthcare workforce.
The Louisiana Hospital Association (LHA) announced Jan. 24 a new workplace wellness initiative for hospitals throughout the state.
Workforce management firm API Healthcare announced Wednesday that it has acquired Concerro, a provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) staffing and scheduling systems such as online scheduling, open shift management, patient acuity and emergency preparedness solutions for healthcare.
The number of young people entering the nursing profession is surging, providing relief from the recent nursing shortage, according to an article in the December issue of Health Affairs.
Approximately one in every eleven residents in the United States is employed in the healthcare sector, but one-in-seven new hires in the healthcare industry will leave their job within the first year, according to new research by Bersin & Associates.
Iowa hospitals provide more than 700,000 jobs and pay more than $3.8 billion in salaries and benefits annually, according to a recent study conducted by the Iowa Hospital Association.
Job growth in the healthcare sector will outpace other sectors through 2020 predicts new statistics released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
UMass Memorial Health Care in Worcester, Mass., will reduce its workforce by 700-900 in response to declining patient volumes and reimbursement, officials announced Wednesday.
A new study finds that state legislated caps on mandatory overtime of nurses' work hours work as intended but the study's authors say the need for legislating such caps would be moot if facility leaders were progressive in their thinking about handling nurse scheduling.
Fortune magazine recently released its annual 100 Best Companies to Work For list. Healthcare companies nabbed 17 slots. What is their secret to creating a workplace that makes employees want to stay and makes their companies the ones for which job seekers aim? Healthcare Finance News reached out to those companies to find out.