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The healthcare employment engine rolls on. The industry continued to add jobs in October, increasing employment by 11,600 positions.

Representatives of skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) are estimating the SNF sector will potentially lay off 20,000 employees, will forgo the creation of 20,000 new jobs and will alter employee benefits as a result of the Medicare payment cuts that took effect on Oct. 1.

Absences account for 35 percent of every organization's annual payroll budget, said Colleen Daigle to an audience at the KronosWorks2011 conference in Orlando on Monday.

First-time applicants to medical school increased by 2.6 percent in 2011 to 32,654 students and total applicants increased by 2.8 percent to 43,919 according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.

The holiday bonus is a tradition both disdained and welcomed, by employers and employees alike, but in recent years, it has become more and more a memory.


New Jersey hospitals’ total economic activity reached more than $18.6 billion in 2010, an increase of about $40 million compared with 2009, according to the New Jersey Hospital Association.

HealthONE’s 9,000-employee staff works long hours in a stressful, fast-paced environment to assure quality healthcare for their patients. Now, the Denver-based healthcare system is giving back to their dedicated team through a new wellness program with incentaHEALTH.

Wanna bet you can lose weight? New York City-based HealthyWage is hoping you’ll try.

As patient-centered medical homes become a larger part of the healthcare system, it’s important that all the participants be trained on how to work in teams, said Larry Mauksch, M.Ed., during the Maine Primary Care Association’s annual conference held this week.

Based on conversations with hospital CEOs, healthcare consulting firm Huron Healthcare ranks the top 5 issues keeping healthcare leaders up at night.