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New Jersey's RWJUH, nurses' union strike tentative deal to end contentious 4-month strike

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New Jersey’s largest academic medical center has reached a tentative agreement with a union representing about 1,700 of its nurses to end a four-month strike. | The labor dispute over pay and staffing held about 1,700 nurses without pay or benefits and drew the attention of top U.S. health policy legislators.

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Patients, Nurses and Doctors Blame Health Insurers for Increasing Costs and Barriers to Care

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Most patients, nurses and doctors believe that health insurance plans reduce access to health care which contributes to clinician burnout and increases costs, based on three surveys conducted by Morning Consult for the American Hospital Association (AHA).

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USA Today Finds Hidden Common Ground Among Americans For Health Care

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This poll is published today in a four-page special section devoted to health care policy. The top-line of the section, noted in the title of page A-1, is that 92% of all Americans want changes in the health care system. The gridlock comes at certain flashpoints, USA Today explains.

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“The virus is the boss” — U.S. lives and livelihoods at the beginning of 2021

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This third chart, labeled Figure 6, details health occupations with the largest differences in employed women and men. You can see million-person differences for registered nurses, nursing assistants, and personal care aides, and half-million worker deltas for LPNs and medical assistants.

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Our Pandemic Lessons: Listening to Michael Dowling – a #HIMSS21 Wrap-Up

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health policy and regulatory leaders. An uncertain world is our workplace in the health/care ecosystem, globally, in this moment. What should doctor’s and nurse’s competencies be ten years from now?” The three spoke about navigating compliance (think: regulations and reimbursement) in an uncertain world.

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My ABCovid-19 Journal – Day 3 of 5, Letters “K” through “O”

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In particular, the hottest spot appeared to be a nursing home where one resident had been diagnosed with COVID-19 on February 28. N is for New York and Nurse. But it had to be New York, coupled with a nurse icon from a vintage set of child’s flash cards. K is for Kirkland, Washington state. In the U.S.,

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Waking Up a Health Consumer in the COVID-19 Era

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Anderson was co-author with Uwe Reinhardt of “It’s the Prices Stupid,” the landmark Health Affairs essay from 2003 that pointed out the key difference between U.S. health care spending wasn’t utilization — it was the underlying pricing of medical services and prescription drugs.