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| Aug 28, 2026 | Violence against healthcare workers and staffing shortages fuel hospital strikes | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Lynn Arditi, KFF Health News
Nurse Crystal Dhooghe is used to dealing with blood and broken bones in the emergency room. But she didn’t expect to witness so much violence against her own colleag... |
| Jul 21, 2026 | AdventHealth to take over Intermountain hospitals in Wheat Ridge, Brighton and Lafayette | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
AdventHealth will take over three Denver-area hospitals owned by Intermountain Health, along with their associated clinics, free-standing emergency rooms and urgent care centers.
The two health sys... |
| Jul 16, 2026 | 12 Colorado hospitals considered ‘financially vulnerable’ to upcoming federal health care cuts | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
A national nurses union flagged 12 Colorado hospitals at particular risk from upcoming federal cuts — medical facilities that mostly have avoided prior attention to their finances.
The report from ... |
| Feb 27, 2026 | 61% of Nurses Are Burned Out. What to Do as a Nursing Worker to Protect Yourself? | Image Credit: Drazen Zigic
Clinical burnout for nurses and physicians is no longer an abstract workplace issue. It is a measurable, lived reality. Up to 61% of nurses report feeling burnout as a constant, not a temporary state [1]. It is fr... |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Combatting Patient Aggression: How Vocal Biomarkers Can Protect Hospital Staff in 2026 | Kang Hsu, Jr. MD, Chief Medical Officer, Canary Speech
Patient aggression in the hospital is a growing problem. Among nurses and other staff, violent or abusive behaviors have been linked to burnout and PTSD — two of the many reasons nurses... |
| Dec 18, 2025 | New student loan rule could dissuade people from advanced nursing degrees | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Nada Hassanein, Stateline.org
Zoe Clarke became a hospital registered nurse two and a half years ago, following in the footsteps of her mother and grandmother.
Clarke, an ICU nurse in Asheville,... |
| Sep 3, 2025 | How Hospitals Can Reduce the Threat of Workplace Violence | Travis Leonardi, CEO & Founder, SOS Technologies
A recent report from the American Hospital Association draws welcome attention to a long-festering problem: the impact of violent attacks on a cornerstone of our healthcare system.
The re... |
| Aug 23, 2025 | Asking Eric: Family invites to shared holidays stopped coming abruptly | It’s helpful to think about this from her side. Hosting is a big job and, even when gladly undertaken, can be challenging. Also, as you noted, things shifted dramatically globally and in her personal world, so holidays may have an added lay... |
| Jun 27, 2025 | Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Safety and Health Outcomes in Healthcare | In the world of healthcare, two pressing issues loom large: workplace safety for nurses and health outcomes for rural populations. Both are intertwined, like threads in a tapestry, each affecting the other. Nurses are the backbone of health... |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Strategies for Promoting Workplace Safety for Nurses | Andrea Greco, SVP of Healthcare Safety, CENTEGIX
Nurses bring dedication to health systems, outpatient centers, hospitals, and more, committing their lives to caring for those in the community who need it most. Unfortunately, that commitmen... |
| Mar 27, 2025 | The Storm Over Veterans' Care: A Looming Crisis in the VA | The winds of change are howling through the halls of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). A storm is brewing, and veterans are bracing for impact. Recent announcements of sweeping cuts to VA services have left many feeling abandoned, li... |
| Mar 26, 2025 | ‘I didn’t think it would be this bad’: Veterans worry VA cuts will hurt their care | Now, Cochran and other veterans are worried about how their benefits and services could be impacted by the staffing scale back — and how far the cuts will go. For some, the agency has already targeted specific cuts to health care, announcin... |
| Mar 18, 2025 | Health | As AI nurses reshape hospital care, human nurses are pushing back | “Hospitals have been waiting for the moment when they have something that appears to have enough legitimacy to replace nurses,” said Michelle Mahon of National Nurses United. “The entire ecosystem is designed to automate, de-skill and ultim... |
| Feb 8, 2025 | The Power of Naps: Unlocking Productivity and Well-Being | In the fast-paced world of work, the humble nap is often overlooked. Yet, it holds the key to unlocking creativity, productivity, and overall well-being. As our lives become increasingly hectic, the art of napping is making a comeback. It’s... |
| Feb 7, 2025 | Health | Devoted nap-takers explain the benefits of sleeping on the job | “They rejuvenate me in a way that I’m exponentially more useful and constructive and creative on the other side of a nap than I am when I’m forcing myself to gut through being tired,” Stockwell said.The art of napping
Sleep is as important ... |
| Oct 7, 2024 | Fortifying Healthcare: The Cybersecurity and Communication Imperative | In the digital age, healthcare is a double-edged sword. On one side, technology enhances patient care. On the other, it exposes sensitive data to relentless cyber threats. Hospitals and clinics are now prime targets for cybercriminals. They... |
| Oct 7, 2024 | The Vital Role of Hybrid Unified Communications in Healthcare Organizations | Luiz Domingos, CTO, Mitel
Hospitals and healthcare clinics are among the most complex technological ecosystems to manage. Staff and patients demand timely, secure, and dependable communication, while administrators often face shrinking budg... |
| Jun 19, 2024 | Business | Health worker for a nonprofit? The new ban on noncompete contracts may not help you | “Our rulemaking record includes powerful stories from health care workers who are employed by nonprofits about how noncompetes hurt patients and providers,” said FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, one of three Democratic commissioner... |
| May 28, 2024 | Kontakt.io wants to keep nurses safe | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Kontakt.io, a hospital staff and equipment tracking software company, hopes its recent $47.5 million round will help it keep nurses safe, CEO Philipp von Gilsa tells Axios.
The big picture: A survey f... |
| May 20, 2024 | Ascension rolls out maternal health initiative | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Some Austin patients who are at risk for pregnancy complications will be part of a new Ascension program that aims to improve maternal health.
Why it matters: Texas has long struggled with high matern... |
| May 2, 2024 | Nurses Say Hospital Adoption Of Half-Cooked ‘AI’ Is Reckless | We’ve noted repeatedly that while “AI” (language learning models) hold a lot of potential, the rushed implementation of half-assed early variants are causing no shortage of headaches across journalism, media, health care, and other sectors.... |
| Mar 22, 2024 | Health | Health workers fear it’s profits before protection as CDC revisits airborne transmission | Amy Maxmen | KFF Health News (TNS)
Four years after hospitals in New York City overflowed with COVID-19 patients, emergency physician Sonya Stokes remains shaken by how unprepared and misguided the American health system was.
Hospital leade... |
| Feb 14, 2024 | Should the CDC cut the 5-day COVID-19 isolation guidelines? Experts weigh in. | The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is weighing its first major revision to COVID-19 guidance since the end of the federal public health emergency last year.
Among the changes being considered by the agency is an end to its pande... |
| Jan 24, 2024 | Health | Colorado bill targets violence against health care workers, who see disproportionate share of workplace incidents | Colorado hospitals, nursing homes and other health care facilities would be required to come up with plans to reduce violence against their staffs under a bill in the state legislature.
The legislation also would require those facilities to... |
| Oct 16, 2023 | Is there a nursing shortage in the United States? Depends on whom you ask | Hospitals are frustrated with a nationwide nursing shortage that’s only gotten worse since the pandemic. In 2022, the American Hospital Association quoted an estimate that half a million nurses would leave the field by the end of that year,... |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Health | Health workers warn loosening mask advice in hospitals would harm patients and providers | Amy Maxmen | (TNS) KFF Health News
Nurses, researchers, and workplace safety officers worry new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might reduce protection against the coronavirus and other airborne pathogens in h... |
| Sep 7, 2023 | Healthcare Workers Deserve Better: Can Artificial Intelligence Help? | CTO of Athena Security. |
| Feb 27, 2023 | Nonprofit hospitals are failing Americans. Their boards may be a reason why | More than half of U.S. hospitals are nonprofit, meaning they receive generous tax exemptions in exchange for benefiting their communities. Many aren’t fulfilling that mission.
Some nonprofits have billed patients who should have qualified f... |
| Feb 15, 2023 | RTLS Can Enhance the Patient Experience, Staff Safety, and Workflow Operations in 2023 | Scott Hondros, MHA, SCPM, VP of Professional Services at CenTrak
Although the healthcare industry has shown significant resilience, the byproduct of the pandemic has amplified staff stressors across all operational and clinical roles. In a ... |
| Dec 16, 2022 | 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, SEIU United Healthcare Workers West, the workers’ union, said on Frid... |
| Dec 5, 2022 | Kaiser Nurses Ratify New Contract That Raises Wages by 22.5% And Improves Staffing | About two weeks ago, California Nurses Association reached a tentative agreement with Kaiser Permanente, averting what would have been the biggest private sector nurses strike in American history. On Monday, the union announced that its nur... |
| Nov 18, 2022 | Kaiser Nurses Avert Strike and Get 22.5% Raise With New Contract | Members of the California Nurses Association reached a tentative agreement with Kaiser Permanente on Thursday, averting what would have been the biggest private sector nurses strike in American history.
More than 21,000 registered nurses an... |
| Oct 19, 2022 | Be careful before 'quick quitting' and joining the Great Resignation. Your employer may hand you a bill for your job training. | About a quarter of job switchers regret quitting. RealPeopleGroup/Getty Images
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Workers quit in high numbers over the past few years — sometimes after being at the job under a year.
Some employers are demanding that quitting worke... |
| May 23, 2022 | New Surgeon General Advisory Sounds Alarm on Health Worker Burnout and Resignation | During Mental Health Awareness Month, Surgeon General’s Advisory Highlights the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Health Workers, Who Already Faced Crisis Levels of Burnout Prior to the Pandemic
There is a Projected Shortage of More than ... |
| Oct 18, 2021 | Nurses say patients are getting more abusive, and simple questions can set them off | 31% of hospital nurses across the country have reported a small or significant increase in workplace violence as of September 2021. Brandon Bell/Getty Images 31% of hospital nurses have reported an increase in violence, up from 22% in March... |
| May 16, 2021 | CDC director defends telling fully vaccinated they can go without masks amid confusion in states, cities | CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky called for people to be honest and ditch their masks only if they are fully vaccinated.
The sudden change in CDC guidance last week left some people confused as it does not lift local mask ordinances.
Loca... |
| Jan 3, 2021 | I’ve spent the past 9 months talking to healthcare workers as a reporter. ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ gets the pandemic right. | Grey’s Anatomy protagonist Meredith Grey, played by Ellen Pompeo. ABC
I’ve spent the last nine months talking to nurses as a reporter, and I think “Grey’s Anatomy’s” portrayal of healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic gets it right... |
| Dec 24, 2020 | ‘I’m absolutely terrified for Christmas’: Nurses say they’re bracing for record-shattering COVID-19 hospitalizations after the holidays | A medical staff member Stephanie takes a short nap in nursing station in the COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU) at the United Memorial Medical Centre on December 14, 2020 in Houston, Texas. Go Nakamura/Getty Images
Nurses told Business Insi... |
| Dec 22, 2020 | We Need To Talk About The Covid-19 Deaths Of Healthcare Workers | The Addison Family, Pamela, Martin and their two children, before Martin, a speech and language ... [+] pathologist, died of Covid-19.Pamela Addison |
| Jun 1, 2020 | Resident physicians should have a say in their working conditions | In Chicago’s South Loop, the nightly salutation to health care workers begins at 8 p.m., first with a few flashing lights from old holiday decorations, followed by a cacophony of car horns, boomboxes blaring ’90s rock, and metal railings be... |
| Apr 17, 2020 | Navigating nurse burnout in response to COVID-19 | Healthcare employers must respond to the concerns of their nurses and work to implement systems that help medical staff feel prepared and supported as tensions reach an all-time high. Implementing digital workplace technology that centraliz... |
| Dec 16, 2019 | The time is now to protect healthcare workers | According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, incidents of serious workplace violence are four times more common in health care than in private industry. In fact, healthcare accounts for nearly as many serious violent inju... |
| Jan 23, 2019 | Nurses union’s protest of Community Health Systems goes beyond JPM | The NNU flyer lists numerous grievances against CHS claiming it has closed hospitals and lost massive amounts of money. It also questions why Smith is still on board as CEO.
Indeed, just last month a CHS affiliate closed two Tennessee hospi... |
| Nov 28, 2011 | Minnesota Nurses Association leader talks OccupyMN, strikes and Facebook | A report published last week in Health Care Management Review downplays the importance of nurse-patient staffing ratios in the quality of patient care. But Linda Hamilton, two-term president of the Minnesota Nurses Association, maintains th... |
| Nov 25, 2011 | For nurses, staff numbers are not necessarily top priority, survey finds | That conclusion is likely to be received with mixed feelings by hospitals and nurses. One of the motivational factors that nearly drove a union representing 12,800 Minnesota nurses to strike this year was the ratio of patients to nurses was... |
| Oct 24, 2011 | Nurse’s union takes to Occupy Chicago for propaganda — or, ‘first aid’ | The two nurses arrested were among a larger group marching with Occupy Chicago protesters and later set up a tent to provide first aid.
“It was the wrong move,” RoseAnn DeMoro, the group’s executive director, said Sunday. “We were there to ... |
| Oct 17, 2011 | Watch Minnesota nurses embrace Occupy Wall Street at conference | The Minnesota Nurse’s Association, which launched one of the most closely watched nursing strikes in recent years, is hosting its annual conference this week with an Occupy Wall Street theme.
It’s hard to believe it’s been almost 18 months ... |
| Jul 2, 2010 | Minnesota nurses-hospitals labor dispute: A post-mortem | Like nearly all labor disputes, wages were also a big component. Nurses wanted the new three-year deal to include annual raises of 4.5 percent per year. The 14 hospitals countered with a proposal of increases of 0 percent, 1 percent and 2 p... |
| Jun 23, 2010 | HealthPartners CEO: Nurses’ demand for patient ratios misguided | Promoted
This Patient Experience Checklist Is Your Key To Success in 2021
As healthcare systems strive to recover from losses due to the pandemic, patient acquisition and retention have never been more urgent, and patient experience has nev... |
| Jun 15, 2010 | Minnesota nurses to vote Monday on open-ended strike | Under union rules, 66 percent of voting nurses would have to approve a strike. While that may seem like a high hurdle, 90 percent voted in favor of the one-day strike. If a longer strike happens, it likely wouldn’t occur until after July 4,... |
| Jan 14, 2010 | Artificial pancreas could be on the four-year horizon — MedCity Evening Read, Jan. 14, 2010 | When airport security asks you to step into a full-body scanner, you can thank scientists of Battelle in Columbus for making the technology so, um, revealing, reported the Columbus Dispatch.
Bedford Laboratories, a division of German-owned ... |
| Nurses union’s protest of Community Health Systems goes beyond JPM | Earlier this month, executives, founders and VCs took over San Francisco for the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. While they touted their companies’ capabilities, another set of healthcare stakeholders stood outside in the rain handing ou... |
| Artificial pancreas could be on the four-year horizon — MedCity Evening Read, Jan. 14, 2010 | News and notes from the day in MedCity, Ohio:
Ohio researchers take note: An experimental artificial pancreas soon will be tested in diabetes patients, according to an Associated Press story published by the Columbus Dispatch. A commercial... |
| Watch Minnesota nurses embrace Occupy Wall Street at conference | The Minnesota Nurse’s Association, which launched one of the most closely watched nursing strikes in recent years, is hosting its annual conference this week with an Occupy Wall Street theme.
It’s hard to believe it’s been almost 18 months ... |
| The time is now to protect healthcare workers | On November 21, 2019, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 251 to 158 to pass H.R. 1309, the “Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Worker Act.” That bill now goes to the Senate.
Essentially, the bill directs t... |
| Nurse’s union takes to Occupy Chicago for propaganda — or, ‘first aid’ | The Occupy Wall Street protests continued in Chicago and the nurses unions are dispensing a new form of “first aid:”
Outraged by the arrest of two nurses and a union organizer volunteering at the Occupy Chicago protest over the weekend, Nat... |
| ‘I fear the long-term effects’: Before his death, a nurse warned of the pandemic’s toll on health care workers | In early 2020, Michael Odell sensed that Covid-19 would hit hard. A young intensive care nurse who traveled to hospitals needing an extra hand, he told his family that demand for people like him was surging.
By April 2, just a few weeks int... |
| CDC director says new COVID-19 isolation rules were based on 'what we thought people would be able to tolerate' | CDC Director Rochelle Walensky testifying before the Senate on July 20. J. Scott Applewhite-Pool/via Getty Images
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The CDC said new COVID-19 isolation guidelines were based on what it thought people could tolerate.
CDC Director Ro... |
| For nurses, staff numbers are not necessarily top priority, survey finds | In a country facing a nursing shortage and healthcare cuts, a recent survey published by Health Care Management Review finds a link between nurses who rate the quality of their physical work environment high with a higher rating for the qua... |
| Navigating nurse burnout in response to COVID-19 | As the number of known Covid-19 infections continues to increase and supplies dwindle at hospitals across the world, healthcare workers in the U.S. are under greater stress than ever. At the beginning of March, members of the National Nurse... |
| Minnesota Nurses Association leader talks OccupyMN, strikes and Facebook | A report published last week in Health Care Management Review downplays the importance of nurse-patient staffing ratios in the quality of patient care. But Linda Hamilton, two-term president of the Minnesota Nurses Association, maintains th... |
| Minnesota nurses to vote Monday on open-ended strike | Monday looms as a possible key turning point in the ongoing saga of the Minnesota nurses strike.
That’s the day the Minnesota Nurses Association has scheduled a vote on what could become an open-ended strike by about 12,800 of the union’s m... |
| Minnesota nurses-hospitals labor dispute: A post-mortem | The union representing 12,800 Minnesota nurses struck a surprise agreement with 14 Twin Cities Hospitals Thursday, likely ending the threat of what the nurses billed as the largest U.S. nursing strike in history.
Just hours before the agree... |
| Nurses union survey finds workplace violence, unsafe working conditions are on the rise | A new survey from the largest registered nurses union in the U.S. finds that workplace violence is increasing along with staffing issues amid the pandemic.
The survey, released Thursday by National Nurses United, polled 2,575 registered nur... |
| HealthPartners CEO: Nurses’ demand for patient ratios misguided | Count HealthPartners CEO Mary Brainerd as another healthcare official who neither buys the logic behind the nurses demand for set staffing levels, nor the union’s stated reason for embracing the issue as its rallying cry.
Brainerd is hardly... |
