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A replacement nurse at the Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland, Calif., administered a fatal dose of medication on Saturday to a cancer patient during a nurses' strike.
Complaints about nursing homes are rampant and general opinion about them is poor. It's well known that employees aren't happy at these facilities and turnover is high. Right? Maybe not so much, according to results of a customer and employee satisfaction survey from My InnerView, a division of the National Research Corporation.
The thrust behind higher healthcare spending in the United States on primary care and orthopedics versus in other countries is higher physician fees says a new study published in Health Affairs earlier this month.
Happiness in this World has an interesting post from last November, which tells the story of a misdiagnosis of one physician by another. The problem: “early closure,” or jumping to conclusions.
When 4,000 NUHW workers strike this week at Kaiser Permanente facilities, they will be joined by 17,000 registered nurses from the California Nurses Association and 2,000 members of the Stationary Engineers, Local 39. NUHW representatives are saying the strike will be the largest in Kaiser history.
In an interview with Richard Pizzi, editor of Healthcare Finance News, Jay Weiss, vice president at Symphony Corporation, offered readers insight into trends in healthcare human resources management over the course of the next year. His firm, based in Madison, Wis., specializes in healthcare management technology and services, with a heavy emphasis in human capital management solutions.
Citing an anticipated infusion of $17 million from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services aimed at helping rural hospitals, the Service Employees International Union has called on Baystate Health to back off plans to eliminate 354 jobs.
Susan Reese is chief executive nurse at Kronos, a Chelmsford, Mass.-based workforce management solutions and services vendor. She spoke recently with Healthcare Finance News editor Richard Pizzi about the changing relationship between the hospital business office and a hospital’s nursing leadership.
2010 was a record year for the number of practicing physician assistants (PAs) in the United States. The American Academy of Physician Assistants' 2010 Census Report found numbers of practicing PAs reached 83,466, up 100 percent from 10 years ago.
As many private practice doctors shutter their offices to join health systems and group practices, subspecialty pediatricians are more often entering private practice. The trend is examined in a new study published this week in the journal Pediatrics.