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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.
The current shortage of primary care physicians has received a great deal of attention in recent years, but very little has happened to impact or reverse the trend and the problem just continues to get worse.
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.
As a leader in specialty procedures, cardiology is a growing field that is in demand from patients, as well as from hospitals looking to acquire practices. While some cardiologists are interested in being employed by hospitals, about 67% others prefer the private practice route.
How many times have you read about the staggering shortage of nurses? It’s routine to see numbers in the hundreds of thousands tossed around – representing the seemingly insatiable demand for nurses from an aging population. I’ve always been suspicious of these estimates.