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The president's plan requires all employers with 100-plus employees to ensure their workers are vaccinated or get tested weekly.
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Nurse Evolution educates nurses about health IT, advanced data analytics and innovation concepts in nursing, says founder Whende Carroll.
This week's top stories include workers at Tenet Healthcare hospitals securing better pay and COVID-19 health safeguards after striking, and a space mission preparing to test the impact of spaceflight on the body.
The ANA cited the Delta variant of COVID-19 as a complicating factor that has exacerbated workforce shortage challenges.
Dr. Brian Covino, chief medical officer at Cohere Health, talks about reducing payer and provider friction and the CMS' proposed rule on prior authorizations.
Idaho Governor Brad Little said the real solution to the crisis is more Idahoans choosing to receive COVID-19 vaccine.
The caregivers had authorized a strike last month to improve staffing, pay, benefits and COVID-19-related health safeguards.
The Delta variant has driven a rise in cases among nursing home residents from a low of 319 cases on June 27, to 2,696 cases on August 8.
Biden has until November 15, when Woodcock’s term as acting commissioner expires, to nominate a permanent head.
Higgins currently serves as surgeon-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital and has served in numerous professional roles.