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NewsUnion plans largest U.S. nurse strike at Kaiser, Sutter Health
With ongoing nursing shortages, hospitals have been struggling to fill gaps in providing care, as well deal with nurses dissatisfied with resulting staffing levels. But even the largest and most Read more...
Reform calls for more administrative support, not clinicians
As hospitals prepare for an additional 16 million newly insured patients in 2014, new research in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests they should be concentrating on adding more support Read more...
Offer physicians research time to boost job satisfaction
With a looming physician shortage, hospitals have been trying all sorts of ways to keep their employees happy and ultimately keep them at their facility. According to new research from the Department Read more...
Healthcare workers may find it easier to unionize
With state budget Medicaid reimburesement cuts leading to layoffs and layoffs leading to worker strikes comes news that it now may be much easier for healthcare workers to unionize. The decision in Read more...
More than one-third of healthcare workers lack flu vaccination
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) isn't close to reaching its goal to vaccinate 90 percent of all U.S. healthcare workers by 2020. Only 63.5 percent of healthcare workers were Read more...
Hospital violence strikes nurses' aids the most
With violence rising in U.S. hospitals, it may not be all that surprising that nurses' aides have the most violent job in Washington State, with registered nurses ranking as runner up, according to Read more...
Two-thirds of healthcare workers ignore skin antisepsis guidelines
Only one-third of healthcare workers follow evidence-based guidelines for patient skin antisepsis, according to a new survey conducted by Infection Control Today and sponsored by CareFusion. Yet many Read more...
California program helps turn unemployed into healthcare workers
In an attempt to kill two birds with one stone, the Youth Policy Institute in Los Angeles recently started a program to train low-income and unemployed residents as medical assistants, pharmacy Read more...
Study reveals Clostridium difficile spreads differently than hospitals thought
Although there is no evidence that Clostridium difficile--an increasingly virulent hospital-acquired infection--can be contracted by inhaling the bacteria, new research suggests that the germs don't Read more...
Four percent of healthcare workers MRSA-positive
About 4 percent of healthcare workers are infected with some strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, according to a recent voluntary screening of 3,638 clinical and non-patient-care Read more...
| Press ReleasesSacramento Healthcare Workers Launch Initiative Drive to End Hospital Price GougingCaregivers and Community Leaders Start Signature Collection Outside of Sutter General SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Fed up with outrageous hospital prices like $21 for a single aspirin, $86 Read more >> Californians for Patient Care Denounces Striking Unionized Healthcare WorkersStrike unnecessarily disrupts care SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The following statement is attributed to Carmella Gutierrez, president of Californians for Patient Care: “Like many Read more >> After Nearly Three Years, NUHW Trades Away Hospital Workers Pay and Benefit Guarantees in First Major ContractWorkers at Providence Tarzana Medical Center Lose Guarantees Previously Secured with SEIU-UHW LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- After a year-and-a-half of negotiations, workers who are represented by Read more >> Workers Launch Contract Negotiations at Daughters of Charity with Focus on Improving Health for All CaliforniansNearly 3,000 SEIU-UHW Members Ask Hospital Chain to Join with them in Preparing California for the Future of Healthcare SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Healthcare workers at six hospitals in Read more >> Californians for Patient Care Calls for Mandatory Flu Vaccine for All Healthcare WorkersSACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The following statement is attributed to Carmella Gutierrez, president of Californians for Patient Care: “Californians for Patient Care (CPC) is pleased to note Read more >> |
