Workforce

Rule allows certified registered nurse anesthetists to practice in rural and critical access hospitals without direct physician supervision under rules developed by each facility in consultation with the medical staff.

As usual, ambulatory health centers led the hiring, adding 28,000 jobs in May, while hospitals added 16,000 jobs.

Trend has driven up stock prices of the largest publicly traded travel-nurses companies.

The move could affect 3,500 UPMC employees who are at least 60 years old and have 10 years on the job.

Trinity Hospital Twin City CFO Woodrow W. Hathaway Jr. retires after 41 years in the healthcare industry.

The change will affect 10,000 workers, an estimated 7 percent of the 150,000 in the system's workforce, according to Ascension, the nation's largest Catholic and nonprofit health network.

During Fry's tenure, Sutter Health's annual revenues grew from $6.7 billion to more than $10 billion.

Health insurer increases the minimum hourly wage for its U.S. employees to $16 per hour, and next year will expand health coverage.

The surge in accountable care organizations and other network affiliations between healthcare providers is spelling big financial opportunity for hospital vice presidents of network development, a position that experts say is key in connecting the clinical and the business side of a health network.

While awareness over nurse safety has grown, a new survey by The Leapfrog Group found 40 percent of hospitals fail to comply with all 21 endorsed safe practices in the field.