RN salaries increase, and so do workplace violence, mental health concerns
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 10, 2024
Salaries for registered nurses increased by 2.6% last year, and workplace violence and mental health concerns also grew. That’s according to the 2024 Nurse Salary and Work-Life Report, released Tuesday...
Healthcare workers face mental health crisis: CDC
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 26, 2023
Mental health and the “burnout crisis” affecting healthcare workers began well before the pandemic and still were prevalent in 2022, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and...
Workforce mental health needs increase for most large employers: survey
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 24, 2023
Seventy-seven percent of large employers reported an increase in workforce mental health needs in a recent survey by Business Group on Health. That’s an increase of 33% from a year ago, when 44% of employers...
Lessons from the pandemic can help ensure caregivers’ mental health and well-being
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 27, 2023
Healthcare organizations’ disaster preparedness plans must include “explicit plans for supporting mental health,” say the authors of a new piece in JAMA Psychiatry.
New federal rules aim to strengthen employer health plan mental health coverage
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 26, 2023
Employer-sponsored health plans would come under increased scrutiny to cover mental health and substance abuse disorders at the same level as physical healthcare under proposed rules introduced Tuesday...
Activist investor Land & Buildings responded Thursday to the supplemental proxy that National Health Investors published Tuesday.
Vote for incumbent directors, NHI advises in supplemental proxy
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 09, 2024
National Health Investors is asking stockholders to reject an activist investor’s recommendation to not re-elect two of three people up for re-election to the board of the Murfreesboro, TN-based real...
Healthcare ranks second among industries with workers frustrated by low pay: survey
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 19, 2024
Healthcare workers rank second among those frustrated about their industry’s pay, according to a recent analysis from USA Today Blueprint.
Governor reevaluates $25 minimum wage for healthcare workers
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 12, 2024
In the wake of a projected $38 billion deficit, California Gov. Gavin Newson (D) is reevaluating an incremental minimum wage increase to $25 an hour for nursing homes, assisted living and other healthcare-related...
‘Slow but continual recovery’ predicted for healthcare REITs: Fitch
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 02, 2024
US healthcare real estate investment trusts should experience a slow but continual recovery in 2024, a new analysis from Fitch Ratings predicts