Health care services provider Humana is adding 50 jobs, mostly nursing positions, at its Humana Cares national care center in St Petersburg, Florida. The center provides telephone based health coaching, health management and and health education services to 30,000 medicare and low income/disabled medicare/medicade members nationwide. The center has expanded from 200 employees in January [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Stericycle is cutting 29 jobs from its facility in Boynton Beach, Florida, according to a notice it filed this week with the state. The layoffs will be effective at the end of February. Stericycle is the country’s largest provider of medical waste services. From 2001 to 2005 it was one of Forbes Magazine’s Best [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 10, 2009
According to a report issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the two sectors that will experience the broadest job growth over the next decade are professional and business services and health care. More than half of all new jobs over the next ten years are expected to come in the service industry. [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 23, 2009
The unemployment rate in Oklahoma hit its highest level in 21 years last month, coming in a 7.1%. The good news is that even though unemployment continued to rise, the state added 8,000 jobs in the same time frame, many of which have not yet been filled. The biggest gains, in what is [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Health Insurance Giant Aetna says it will cut 1250 jobs, 625 now and another 625 in the first quarter of 2010. The company also plans to merge some of its field offices to reduce real estate expenses, but won’t be exiting any markets as a result. Although Aetna posted an 18% increase in [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 10, 2009
A new survey from the Labor Department says that job openings were up in September. Job openings were also up in August, making this the first two month increase since early 2007. This is good news for a struggling job market and many analysts are pointing to this as evidence that jobs are [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Premier Inc., a health care purchasing and data company, is moving its headquarters from San Diego to Charlotte and bringing 300 jobs with it. 750 of the company’s 1250 employees are already working in Charlotte, which is one of the reasons given for the transition. The company has not provided any [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Chicago, Illinois’ Health Care Service, which operates Blue Cross and Blue Shield health insurance plans in Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, will cut 650 jobs, or about 4% of its workforce. The layoffs will be complete by Q1 2010. Health Care Service Corporation, founded in 1936, is a non-investor-owned mutual insurance company. With 13 million members [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Geisinger South Wilkes-Barre Medical Center, which serves Pennsylvania’s Wyoming Valley, will shut down its emergency department in July, and end all in-patient services. One hundred and eighty people will be laid off. Last summer, the hospital let go 400 employees. Local citizens who need emergency room service or major surgeries will have to go to the Geisinger [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 4, 2009
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey has notified 170 employees they are to be laid off. The state’s largest health insurer is also eliminating 83 open positions. The firm is also slashing costs such as advertising and travel. Salary increases have been reduced or eliminated. Founded in 1932, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New [...]
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