staffing shortages
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85,000 Kaiser Workers Will Soon Vote to Authorize What Could Be the Biggest Healthcare Strike in US History
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.
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Providence Scales Back Services in Oregon to Prep for Nurses’ Strike
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.
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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To Get Better Staffing Levels, Hospitals Must Prioritize Nurses’ Hiring Demands
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.
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Patients Want Convenient, Personal Care — But Staffing Levels Are Preventing Clinicians from Delivering It
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.
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Unions File Antitrust Complaint Against UPMC & Allege ‘Draconian’ Labor Practices
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.”
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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
We’re Feeling the Effects of the Nursing Shortage. Technology Can Help.
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.
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Report: Nurse Understaffing Is Becoming More Deadly for Patients
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.
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Good Pay & Value Alignment Are What Workers Seek in Healthcare Jobs, Reports Say
Healthcare providers will continue having a difficult time retaining employees unless they make necessary changes, such as establishing pay increases and improving company culture. Healthcare ranked last for employee satisfaction with pay among 27 other industries, according to a recent report. A separate report found that many healthcare employees are leaving their jobs because their company’s mission no longer aligns with their values.
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Sometimes Striking Is the Only Way Nurses Can Protect Patient Safety, Expert Says
There’s been a recent wave of nurse strikes, but Theresa Brown — a nurse and New York Times bestselling author — said she’s never met a nurse who happily embraces striking. Nurses only strike when it’s the only option left to protect patients and deliver quality care, she declared.
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Applying Remote Patient Monitoring to Surgery Prep and Recovery, Oncology and Women’s Health
Join us to learn about the latest trends in remote monitoring and how to extend its benefits beyond chronic conditions to more patients – all while using fewer staff resources.
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‘It’s Not a Lack of Ability — It’s an Absolute Lack of Will’: Why HCA Workers Are Demanding Better Staffing
Workers at the largest for-profit health system in the country, HCA Healthcare, have planned a rally for Thursday. The goal of the rally is to show HCA that its workers know how profitable the company is and that they won’t be able to tolerate poor staffing levels for much longer.
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Stanford Becomes 2nd California Health System to Grant Workers’ Big Raises This Month
Healthcare workers at Stanford Medical Center and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital ratified a new agreement that increases their wages by 15% over the next three years. It’s been good month for nurses unions in Northern California — Kaiser Permanente nurses recently ratified a new contract that increased wages by 22.5% over four years and included provisions for improved staffing.
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Until Nurses Are Included in Reimbursement Models, Expect Them to Keep Leaving the Profession in Droves
Researchers project that the U.S. healthcare industry will be short 2.1 million nurses by 2025. Including them in reimbursement models might be the most effective way to address nurses’ mass exodus from the profession, according to Rebecca Love, who is a nurse and the chief clinical officer of tech-enabled nurse staffing platform IntelyCare.
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More Talent and Technology Offer Solutions for Medical Laboratory Staffing Shortages
Process improvement and advanced technology can also help relieve the staffing burden that medical laboratories are facing.
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MedCity Influencers, Consumer / Employer
The retention reset: How to win back your employees
There are five areas that employers need to improve upon to see a rise in their employee retention rates – compensation, benefits, learning & development, culture, and flexibility.
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Small healthcare practices should be wary of letting the patient experience slip amid staffing shortages
Healthcare staffing shortages are leading to negative patient experiences, which is especially troublesome for small healthcare practices that often use good patient experiences to differentiate themselves from competitors, according to a new report. To address this trend, healthcare clinics should regularly meet to assess the patient experience at their practice as well as staff pain points that can be alleviated through automation technology.