Healthcare It News

MAY 6, 2024

Blank Hospital is scheduled to open this September. It is one of the largest and most advanced pediatric hospitals in the world. Blank Hospital. What was the overarching health IT strategy that went into creating the hospital from the ground up? Blank Hospital opening in September. Blank Hospital.

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Health Care Dive

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

An election to decertify the Massachusetts Nurses Association from representing nurses at the hospital could threaten gains achieved in a new contract agreement following a 10-month strike last year.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 28, 2023

This week, a visitor opened fire at Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center in Portland, killing a security guard and injuring a nurse. Following increases in both aggression towards nurses and mass shootings, stakeholders are debating whether new tech or old solutions can make a difference.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 14, 2024

Despite challenges with compensation, staffing shortages, safety and more, most nurses want to remain in the field until retirement, a new report found. |

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 4, 2022

The deal includes some staffing improvements that were top priorities for nurses, including limits on how many patients can be assigned in certain hospital units, along with wage increases, the union said.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 6, 2022

15 Minnesota hospitals reach tentative deal to avoid 15,000-nurse strike. Tue, 12/06/2022 - 16:52.

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 30, 2023

The bill mirrors California’s nurse staffing law which took effect in 2004 and outlines exactly how many patients a nurse in specific hospital units can care for at one time.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 26, 2024

Walk the floors of a busy hospital today and you’ll see signs of a healthcare workforce in crisis. It really doesn’t matter which hospital, or where. Nurses have been pushed to the limit. The signs are the same across the country.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 11, 2024

Department of Agriculture Rural Development, which it will use to build out its virtual inpatient nursing program. "When we find innovative ways to build a work environment where nurses are engaged and working to the top of their skill set, our patients benefit too," she added.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 13, 2024

Prompted by H-ISAC, the American Hospital Association also sent a cybersecurity advisory with technical mitigation recommendations to its members. The AHA has warned its member hospitals that it is urgent to heed H-ISAC's recommendations on defending against the emerging threat.

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 31, 2022

"This is a bigger workforce shortage than we have ever dealt with," said Gay Landstrom, senior vice president and chief nursing officer of Trinity Health, a nonprofit system with 88 hospitals nationwide.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Industry groups opposed the rules laying out masking, social distancing, testing and exposure notification requirements for hospitals and nursing homes. Implementation was required in July.

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 9, 2023

Nurses at eight hospitals originally intended to strike. Ultimately, despite continued bargaining over the weekend, two failed to reach deals in time to stop nurses from walking off the job.

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 28, 2022

With nurses in high demand, hospitals and nursing homes are forced to accept "exorbitant" rates set by staffing agencies, their lobbies argue.

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Health Care Dive

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Large hospital operators reported increasing lengths of stay and difficulties discharging patients in the first half of 2022. The answer to why lies in a perennially stressed post-acute care chassis driven to the brink by COVID-19.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 11, 2023

Fitch Ratings: Workforce pressures easing for hospitals, ambulatory care, nursing homes dmuoio Tue, 04/11/2023 - 12:40

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 28, 2023

At least 18 states have introduced or advanced safe staffing bills this year in an effort to reduce nurse burnout and improve the quality of patient care, but hospital groups are resisting.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Kaiser Permanente's hospital-at-home push prioritizes savings over high-quality care, nurses union says. Fri, 11/05/2021 - 15:49.

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Health Care Dive

DECEMBER 4, 2023

More than 1,700 nurses in New Jersey have been on the picket line since August. On Friday, the union and hospital system announced a tentative deal.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

More than 1,700 nurses have been on strike in New Jersey since the beginning of August. The hospital and union are expected to return to the bargaining table on Thursday.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 14, 2022

Hospitals forced to delay patient discharges as nursing homes and rehab centers face major staff shortages. Fri, 01/14/2022 - 16:07.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 20, 2023

About 1,800 of Providence’s Oregon nurses and clinicians are on strike this week amid contract negotiations, prompting the health system to cut back some services at its facilities to preserve capa | Contract disagreements led 1,800 union nurses to the picket lines this week.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 12, 2023

A new study, led by health policy researchers from Rand Corporation, and funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, surveyed pediatric nurses at an urban children's hospital to assess the factors that may or may not be contributing to feelings of burnout. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 4, 2023

Thousands of nurses across 7 NYC hospitals plan open-ended strike. Wed, 01/04/2023 - 12:02.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 4, 2022

Nurses vote to end 10-month strike at Tenet Healthcare's St. Vincent Hospital. Tue, 01/04/2022 - 11:24.

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Health Care Dive

JULY 27, 2022

The effort was driven by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, which also recently helped nurses at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine, initiate a vote to decertify their union.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 19, 2024

Take the case of Mount Alvernia Hospital, a 300-bed private not-for-profit medical institution in Singapore. " Bruce Leong, Director of Technology and Strategy, Mount Alvernia Hospital As part of their DNA, innovation also aligns with the hospital's digital transformation strategy to stay agile.

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Health Care Dive

DECEMBER 21, 2022

“We are pulling back the curtain and letting the sunshine in on hospital and nursing home ownership because it is what the public deserves,” HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said Tuesday in a statement.

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Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Nurses at 15 hospitals in Minnesota walked off the job for three days in September but later returned to work without new contracts. 30, they’ll vote on whether to authorize another strike.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 11, 2023

What You Should Know: connectRN, the nurse staffing community that provides clinicians with flexible scheduling opportunities and resources, announced today that nurses have begun using the platform to find hospital shifts at multiple Nashville hospitals.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 1, 2022

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise has published a white paper on optimising the care pathway for better outcomes in hospitals. However, attention has shifted from the patient to the EMR system, with nurses spending 20-40% of their time on the EMR platform. Addressing this situation requires a holistic approach. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Nurses say hospitals rarely in compliance with OSHA's new COVID-19 protections. Wed, 09/29/2021 - 14:35.

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Health Care Dive

APRIL 4, 2023

Two hospital groups are arguing that federal staffing mandates are a “one-size-fits-all” approach to the labor crisis and that issuing mandates could reduce capacity by forcing nursing homes to shut their doors.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 24, 2022

Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: Orbita transforms nurse and patient hospital experiences with ServiceNow Region Tag: Global Edition Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Health Care Dive

AUGUST 18, 2021

Hospitals are probably paying 10% to 20% more than they were during previous COVID-19 waves for travel nurses, Kathy Kohnke, senior vice president of client relations at Fastaff, said.

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 21, 2022

Current shortages and widespread issues recruiting and retaining staff are a central concern for hospitals, and could lend nurses more leverage in negotiations.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 8, 2024

So, the question remains – how do we improve nurses’ experiences with technology without invoking further trouble? The extensive paperwork required for electronic health records (EHR) is notably frustrating, especially for nurses who depend on technology for precise documentation of patient interactions.

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