Staffing and Labor news and information

The for-profit assisted-living industry came under the harsh spotlight of PBS' “Frontline” investigators Tuesday night as the news program took Seattle-based Emeritus Corp. to task for a number of deaths and injuries involving residents with dementia at Emeritus facilities across the...
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Three leading public health organizations have announced plans to partner in a project aimed at helping the nation's healthcare providers prepare for the 2014 expansion of Medicaid coverage.
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The American Nurses Association wants the federal government to require insurers selling plans on state insurance exchanges to have at least a certain percentage of advanced practice registered nurses in their provider networks.
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Khlood Salman became a strong advocate for better healthcare for Muslims in the U.S. after finding out shortly after graduating from nursing school that three of her young Muslim friends had breast cancer.
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Healthcare employers are wary while unions representing healthcare workers are hopeful as the U.S. Senate appears poised this week to confirm two Obama administration appointees to the National Labor Relations Board, thus moving toward filling all five board seats. Two Republican nominees also are...
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Highmark's turn to try to stanch losses at Pittsburgh's West Penn Allegheny Health System has begun.
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Cigna Corp. will begin requiring patients who are at risk for breast cancer, colorectal cancer syndromes or Long QT syndrome and are considering genetic testing to first receive genetic counseling.
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Home-care workers are growing inpatient with the White House's delay in publishing a regulation that would bring them overtime pay and the federal minimum wage.
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Some day, primary-care physician organizations may hold celebrations marking July 2013 as a tipping point for them.
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The home health industry, which has come under fire for not providing health insurance to its largely low-income workforce, wants to be permanently exempted from the healthcare reform law's employer mandate. It argues that requiring home-care providers to...
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