As hospitals adapt to a landscape marked by staffing shortages, financial pressure and escalating safety concerns, security can no longer operate as an afterthought or a cost center. It must be a strategic enabler that protects the workforce, which in turn protects everyone else.
The decision to eliminate nursing and PA degrees from ‘professional degree’ status isn’t just a financial policy choice; it’s a workforce policy choice. And, unfortunately, it’s moving in the wrong direction at the worst possible time.
In a recent interview, Esperion president and CEO, Sheldon Koenig talks about the reality of statin intolerance and his company’s expansion into new diseases
Americans suffer when hospitals close, nursing homes fall below care standards and mental health services become inaccessible. Immigration should be part of the solution.
Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente workers in California and Hawaii have gone on strike, demanding safer staffing levels and higher pay. The dispute underscores growing tensions in healthcare labor as unions raise concerns about patient safety, ongoing burnout and ever-increasing pay for executives.
While enrollment in consumer direction programs has grown, more must be done to educate, amplify, and spread awareness to ensure that all eligible individuals learn about the benefits of this alternative to traditionally delivered agency and institutional care.
Addressing America’s maternal health crisis will be complicated and nuanced. Here are a few possible solutions.
Greenway Health blends smart technology with human expertise to elevate revenue cycle.
WellSpan Health launched a virtual nursing pilot involving Artisight’s smart hospital platform. So far, WellSpan’s nurses “are loving it,” said Erin Langmead, the health system’s interim director of clinical informatics and physician informatics support.
About 85,000 Kaiser Permamente workers voted to ratify a new contract, putting to end what was the largest strike in the history of the healthcare industry. The new contract includes terms for higher wages, more employee education, increased hiring and retention efforts, and greater involvement of frontline workers in the health system’s staffing decisions.
The Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions announced that it will soon begin conducting strike authorization votes among its 85,000 members. The coalition’s chief concern is Kaiser’s dangerous staffing levels, which members say have led to excessively long wait times, patient neglect and mistaken diagnosis. If the coalition authorizes and implements the strike, it will become the largest strike of healthcare workers in the history of the U.S.
Providence is cutting back on services at three of its Oregon facilities to brace for an upcoming nurses' union strike. The Oregon Nurses Association has planned a five-day strike to fight for better staffing levels and working conditions.
Alan Murray on improving access for medical transportation.
Many health systems aren’t employing the right tactics for hiring and retaining nurses, according to a new report. It argued that hospitals would have an easier time hiring and retaining nurses if they focused more on the things workers want most from their employers — such as flexible scheduling and professional development opportunities.
Patients yearn for care experiences that are more convenient, personal and accessible. However, clinicians aren't doing a great job of delivering this kind of care, according to a new report. The staffing crisis has put clinicians under a lot of pressure — they feel they often don't have time to deliver adequate care of get effectively trained on how to use new technology.
A group of labor unions have filed an antitrust complaint against UPMC. They alleged that the health system has prevented its workers from being able to advocate for themselves and their patients through “a draconian system of mobility restrictions and widespread labor law violations that lock in sub-competitive pay and working conditions.”
Some providers are still hesitant about certain technology advancements, but this article shows not only how critical tech will be to the healthcare industry at large, but also how it can help to lessen the toll of unpredictable crises, like the pandemic or the insurmountable nursing shortage we're currently facing.
More than 90% of nurses in Michigan believe that understaffing is negatively affecting the quality of care they’re able to provide, according to a new report. The percentage of respondents who know of a patient death being caused by nurses being assigned too many patients nearly doubled in the past seven years — from 22% in 2016 to 42% in 2023.