New online graduate certificate programs focus on healthcare business
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 11, 2022
Purdue University recently added certificates in healthcare operations and healthcare quality improvement to the online graduate-level programs offered through the university’s Department of Public Health.
Supreme Court case appears favorable toward employer in unionization dispute
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 25, 2024
The Supreme Court appeared Tuesday to be leaning in favor of coffee chain Starbucks in a union-related lawsuit against the National Labor Relations Board that could affect all types of business owners.
2 federal bills look to boost pipeline of healthcare workers
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 12, 2024
Bills introduced in both houses of Congress may bolster the healthcare workforce if they become law.
74 percent of workers are concerned about their well-being at work: survey
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 12, 2023
Seventy-four percent of US workers are “moderately” or “highly” concerned about their workplace well-being, according to the results of the 2023 EBRI/Greenwald Research Workplace Wellness Survey.
AHRQ seeks comment on healthcare workplace safety for staff, patients
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 13, 2022
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality hopes to develop, through the Department of Health and Human Services, a National Healthcare System Action Alliance to Advance Patient Safety in partnership...
Apply for a job at your own organization ‘to evaluate processes, barriers and opportunities,’ committee...
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Nov 23, 2022
The American Hospital Association’s American Organization for Nursing Leadership affiliate this week released the first section in a three-part compendium that will focus on best practices to manage...
NLRB, OSHA partner to protect employees who report workplace violations
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Nov 02, 2023
The National Labor Relations Board and the Department of Labor’s Occupational Health and Safety Administration are teaming up to further protect whistleblowers.
Boosting CNA workforce is focus of state association campaign
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 22, 2024
The California Association of Health Facilities last week launched an awareness and recruitment campaign to draw more certified nursing assistants to senior living and long-term care.
New leadership training program’s first class begins
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 16, 2023
Several long-term care and healthcare employers are collaborating with the Health Career Lab of Louisville, KY, to create “a leadership training program focused on empowering tomorrow’s healthcare...
Senate committee ponders child care challenges with eye toward helping employers, workers
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 15, 2024
As long-term care employers continue to face challenges in recruiting and retaining workers and some employees and potential employees struggle to navigate child care arrangements that make it possible...