Healthcare Contract Issues

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Thousands of healthcare workers walked off the job at the University of California's five medical centers on Tuesday, delaying emergency care, surgeries, diagnostic procedures and other medical treatment throughout the state....

Roughly a month before a new superintendent takes the helm at Glendale Community College, the president of the Faculty Guild publicly announced her resignation on Monday, citing building tensions with trustees. The announcement from Isabelle Saber at...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Nearly 13,000 healthcare employees at five University of California medical centers plan to strike on Tuesday in a move that threatens to back up emergency rooms and already has forced the postponement of elective surgeries....

If the Cumberland County Board of Commissioners push ahead with plans to merge local mental health care oversight with a larger authority, they'll do it without a recommendation from their own mental health board. Commissioners told the Mental Health...

The leader of the union that represents healthcare employees at Temple University Hospital on Sunday threatened a strike over an arbitration dispute involving a terminated employee accused of sexual harassment. "We're prepared to shut it down," said...

Patient care workers at the University of California's medical centers plan to stage a two-day strike next week, but the number taking part will be decided Monday in Sacramento County Superior Court. A judge is expected to rule on a request for a...

Belleville Memorial Hospital and UnitedHealthcare are moving toward a showdown next month over hospital and physician reimbursement rates. If an agreement cannot be struck, Memorial and its physicians group will no longer be in the network of the...

By Ulf Laessing KHARTOUM, May 15 (Reuters) - In a cramped government office in Khartoum, engineer Ahmed Taha and dozens of other Sudanese, lured by local newspaper adverts for jobs in the Gulf, sit waiting to get a permit to leave the country and work...

A common theme in the Lockport City Schools Board of Education election is probably something that'll come up in all school board elections. Finances. Six people will be the ballot for the Lockport City Board of Education. Incumbents Edward Sandell, Jon...

BEIJING (China Daily/ANN) -- Nurse Song Yan would have sought a job in another country if not for her family and child. "I work at least nine hours a day and overtime from time to time, and get meager pay," said the veteran nurse who has practiced the...

Aetna health insurance company and Carolinas HealthCare System, the largest hospital group in the Carolinas, recently signed a contract intended to control health care costs by better coordinating patient care. It's part of a slowly unfolding national...

* FTSEurofirst 300 ends up 0.4 pct at 1,233.49 points * Euro STOXX 50 up 0.4 pct at 2,785.24 points * DAX sets new record high * BT and Novartis boost telecom and health stocks By Sudip Kar-Gupta LONDON, May 10 (Reuters) - European shares scaled...