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Nursing facilities, hospitals, and EMS workers are being crippled by staffing shortages. Industry leaders say state funding can help — but are short on details.
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Michigan Avenue outside Sparrow Hospital in Lansing was filled with picketers Wednesday afternoon. Hundreds of hospital caregivers are demanding a new contract and better staffing.
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Bitter fights over whether hospitals are doing enough to retain and recruit health care workers have intensified during the pandemic, as shortages reach a crisis point.
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It’s looking increasingly likely that more than 500 nurses at McLaren Macomb hospital could go on strike next week. The OPEIU Local 40 has issued a 10-day…
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Nearly 600 nurses at McLaren Macomb could walk off the job when their current contract ends at midnight on July 27.That’s after 90% of dues-paying union…
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A new University of Michigan study finds female nurses’ risk of suicide is twice as high as the general population.Researchers examined CDC data from 2007…
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Eric Kumor has been a nurse for 10 years, but the last few weeks he finds himself having to gear up emotionally just to walk in the door to work.“And…
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Nurses are urging the state legislature to pass bills to better protect them from violent attacks by patients and patients' families.Jamie Brown is a…
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Stateside: Iraqi deportations continue; life as a NICU nurse; building schools to stop mass shootersToday on Stateside, it's been three weeks since a Michigan man died after being deported to Iraq. How are things for hundreds of other Chaldeans facing…
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The neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) houses a hospital's tiniest, most fragile patients. The smallest babies there can weigh less than a pound at…