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Many hospitals don’t need to increase salaries to be competitive – for now. By Sandy Keefe, MSN, RN As a faculty researcher at the Center for the Health Professions at… Read more »

By Jon Kingsdale  |  May 3, 2010 IMPLEMENTING NATIONAL health care reform could pose the greatest domestic policy challenge since executing the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960s. National health… Read more »

Here is CDC’s plan to reduce respiratory protections for healthcare and other workers against H1N1.  It has been reported that with this notice that the CDC will propose to reduce… Read more »

Hospitals, union take campaigns online amid Twin Cities strike talk

NOW THAT the nation has embarked on a course toward universal health care, it is more important than ever that the government go after cost drivers in the system. In… Read more »

Health network examined for possible antitrust violations By Robert Weisman and Liz Kowalczyk, Globe Staff  |  April 29, 2010The US Department of Justice has opened a civil investigation into possible… Read more »

Agreement Responds to the Hospital’s Lack of Response to Nurse’s Concerns About Unsafe Working Conditions and the Reluctance of the Hospital to Address Workplace Safety Issues BOSTON — The management… Read more »

Introduction While U.S. Policy discussions are dominated by reforming the health care delivery system, restoring the nation’s financial system, and revitalizing the economy, two regulatory initiatives weigh heavily on the… Read more »

Philadelphia Inquirer Posted on Wed, Apr. 28, 2010

1045 – 30 Vote in Favor After 28 days on strike, the members of PASNAP, the union that represents 1500 nurses, professionals and technical employees at Temple University Hospital, voted… Read more »