LABOR NEWS
Nurses Join Fight Against Michigan Right To Work Legislation More than a dozen Michigan nurses stood on the steps of the Michigan Capitol this morning, their mouths covered in red duct tape in protest of right to work legislation.
Dayton: Minnesota Is Getting Back to Work Of the 2,700 Minnesota soldiers returning from Kuwait last spring, only 78 are still unemployed – a 90% improvement in only four months.
NOTES ON NURSING
Study: Nurse Phone Calls Reduce Risk of Readmission In addition, healthcare costs decreased by about $1,225 for each patient enrolled in the program compared with similar patients who were not enrolled, reported researchers with the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
HEALTH CARE
Healthy Paychecks for Health Care Systems Execs Yet even as the bottom line eroded, there was little austerity in the executive suites. In 2010, each of 21 executives systemwide would earn total compensation — salary, bonuses and incentives, benefits and expenses — of at least $250,000, according to LGH’s Internal Revenue Service Form 990, the annual financial report that nonprofit health systems such as LGH must file with the federal government.
