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Trend has driven up stock prices of the largest publicly traded travel-nurses companies.

The move could affect 3,500 UPMC employees who are at least 60 years old and have 10 years on the job.

Operating income across Pennsylvania's 35 for-profit and 135 nonprofit hospitals decreased about 5 percent in fiscal 2014 from $1.8 billion to $1.7 billion, according to new data released by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council.

The change will affect 10,000 workers, an estimated 7 percent of the 150,000 in the system's workforce, according to Ascension, the nation's largest Catholic and nonprofit health network.

Knowing when it's time to bring in outside help to improve the business is one thing, but with so many consultants to choose from, make sure you know what your organization wants.

While it's clear that second opinions can help individual patients make better medical decisions, there's little hard data showing that second opinions lead to better health results overall.

The further reimbursement cuts are expected push margins of an estimated 40 percent of all home health providers into loss territory.

During Fry's tenure, Sutter Health's annual revenues grew from $6.7 billion to more than $10 billion.

Health insurer increases the minimum hourly wage for its U.S. employees to $16 per hour, and next year will expand health coverage.

The parent health system of Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's hospitals lost $17.5 million in the three months that ended March 31, as the winter's 9 feet of snow kept some patients from coming into the hospitals and clinics.