Here are 12 updates on unionization efforts and other labor organizing among clinicians and hospitals and health systems in July, as reported by Becker’s: 1. About 10,000 registered nurses represented by Teamsters Local 2024 reached a tentative agreement with Corewell…
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Many physician leaders are reporting a troubling pattern: Physicians who sell their practices to private equity, cash out and then end up recreating the same predatory terms on the physicians coming up behind them. Private equity consolidation is reshaping medicine…
Three states delivered three different versions of the same policy fight this year, over whether nurse practitioners can practice without a supervising physician, highlighting unstable ground even as the overall trend keeps moving toward independence. A pandemic-era waiver in New…
HCA Healthcare’s acquisition of Valesco was initially a financial drag. Now, executives say the physician platform is stabilizing costs, strengthening payer negotiations and giving the company greater control over services central to hospital operations. Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA fully acquired Valesco,…
The rules around physician and healthcare worker noncompetes are changing faster than most employment contracts get reviewed, with at least six states enacting new restrictions or bans in 2026. Several more states are actively considering legislation — while the FTC…
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More than 63% of physicians are already working in locum tenens or considering taking on a locum tenens role within the next five years, according to a report from Doximity. The “Physician Compensation Report 2025” from Doximity surveyed nearly 1,200…
About half of physicians are experiencing burnout, and some specialties are burning out at a much higher rate, according to Medscape’s Physician Burnout & Depression Report for 2024. Having too many bureaucratic tasks, working too many hours and a lack…
There are more practicing internal medicine physicians in the U.S. than any other specialty, with nearly 129,000 physicians, according to data from the Association of American Medical Colleges. In total, there are 1,032,365 active physicians in the U.S. across all…
Massachusetts has the highest number of physicians per capita of any state for the second year in a row, according to data from the Association of American Medical Colleges. There are 485 physicians for every 100,000 residents in Massachusetts, according…
General surgery residents report working an average of 75 hours a week, the highest total of any specialty tracked in a new American Medical Association report. The AMA’s 2025 “National Resident Comparison Report” is based on survey responses from more…