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2023 MAY 13 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Investigators discuss new findings in cancer. According to news reporting out of [...]

NORTHEAST The University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington plans to build 61 apartment units for its full-time employees in South Burlington as a way to help ease its workforce [...]

Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital (PSHMC) offers something relatively rare: a hospital-based training program in medical laboratory science (MLS). Launched in 1932, the program is a key [...]

10 TIME WINNER JONESBORO / EMPLOYEES: 2,550 INDUSTRY: HEALTH CARE St. Bernards Medical Center has been the trusted provider of compassionate and comprehensive health care in Northeast Arkansas for more [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Jason Gillam has been a physical therapist for more than five years and works for the Mat-Su Regional Medical Center in Palmer at its Outpatient Center in Wasilla. […]

Jupiter Medical Center (JMC) in Jupiter, Fla., suffered from chronic recruiting and retention woes that were barriers to opening additional beds. The beds were critically needed for serving JMC's community, [...]

Diversity at work while performing in teams is working beautifully for the working mothers by helping them to broaden their prospective. The JFK Medical Center team is using its skills to save the lives of patients, the General Electric Company team is employing women innovators to boost national defense, while the IBM Corporation is creating a virtual team to map human history, all contributing to similar efforts.

The American society is a very 'mobile' society. It is estimated that Americans move (i.e., relocate to a different city, state, or country) on average every five years--more often than [...]

St. Vincent Medical Center (Toledo, OH) changed its organizational structure by creating a human resources (HR) representative program in summer 1990.The objectives included improving service throughout the organization, eliminating the need to hire additional personnel, and improving the cooperative atmosphere of the HR function. The former organizational structure was based on typical functional and specialized lines, with each worker in the HR department having specific responsibilities. The new structure involved the use of HR representatives, who were given the responsibility to provide a variety of services to executives in their departments. The representatives had to be available at all times, and they had to provide consistent service to all employees.

When a local medical-mission team came to our laboratory at MidMichigan Medical Center in Midland asking for volunteers to staff their new clinic in Petionville, Haiti, we thought this would [...]

Ronald A. Matricaria was named the president and chief executive officer of St. Jude Medical Inc. in 1993. St. Jude Medical had achieved record financial performance and possessed an exceptionally [...]

Detroit Medical Center CEO Mike Duggan expects his hospital system to be in the black for 2009 and 2010, after employees agreed to freeze their salaries and cut benefits to [...]

PLAQUEMINE, La.-Still struggling from the damage of Hurricane Gustav, River West Medical Center laid off about 100 employees, said Jim Cheek, president and chief executive officer of Springfield, Mo.-based Shiloh [...]

Eight years ago, St. Francis Medical Center, a 145-bed regional facility in Grand Island, Neb., struggled to keep enough staff to meet patients' needs, and some needed to be turned [...]

No one at Clarian West Medical Center in Avon, Ind., regards patients' needs as being someone else's "area.'' The 101-bed facility's "Be the ONE'' campaign, launched in June, is a [...]

workforce By Emma Vere-Jones emma.vere.jones@rbi.co.uk The NHS is facing a large-scale exit of senior consultant physicians, in part because they are having to work on average around 15 hours longer [...]

Byline: Linda Wilson Transitions in key leadership positions have occurred in an orderly fashion for decades at Pomona (Calif.) Valley Hospital Medical Center. Consider this: The current president and chief [...]

MILWAUKEE-Columbia St. Mary's will merge two hospitals, Columbia St. Mary's Milwaukee Campus and Columbia St. Mary's Columbia Campus, into a new $417 million hospital. Columbia St. Mary's Lake Drive Hospital, [...]

Byline: Charlotte Huff By 2000, the staffing forecast at Saint Francis Medical Center had deteriorated from dreary to dismal. Many of the hospital's nurses had reached their 40s, considered near [...]

* Advisory Panel: The Bush administration has named a 10-member independent panel to provide guidance on the national assessment given to four-year-old Head Start students. The panel will assess progress [...]

Byline: Ed Finkel To ensure a continued supply of critical front-line workers in its rural corner of Massachusetts, Fairview Hospital in Great Barrington has designed a program called Grow Your [...]

Sutter Roseville Medical Center has ended its exclusive contract with the Radiological Associates of Sacramento Medical Group Inc. (RAS) and is now recruiting its own radiologists. RAS believes that Sutter's transition to in-house radiology services is so that the Sutter can control its own radiology group and avoid negotiations.

Montgomery County, Pennsylvania-based Abington Memorial Hospital is considering the enforcement of layoffs as a possible strategy to increase patient volumes and minimize costs. Admissions to the said medical center have dropped by 2 percent, which is almost similar to the regional admissions rate. Statistics on Abington Health's revenues and operating incomes are given.

Research Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri has enhanced its trauma department by recruiting a Dr. Scott Bjerke as trauma program director, along with other new hires. Research's trauma department could fill a community need. Patient volume in Research's non-trauma areas could also be increased based on the trauma department's capability to save lives.

WASHINGTON -- A who's who list of physician organizations, advocacy groups, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and employers is throwing its weight behind the idea that the medical home model can cure much [...]

The medical-surgical units goal to improve productivity and employee satisfaction by preparing employee schedule and reducing work intensity are presented.

The University of Kansas Hospital has announced a wonderful separation package for its outgoing chief executive Irene Cumming. The university is rewarding her with three years' equivalent salary.

Westchester Medical Center (WMC) will cut its budget for physician staffing in its emergency department by 50 percent by hiring a company that staffs hospital emergency rooms with doctors, but [...]

For the second time in nine months, Westchester Medical Center is preparing to cut costs by laying off employees, while claiming early successes in its efforts to reduce expenses and [...]