CHRISTUS Health, Alexandria, Louisiana

CHRISTUS Health, Beaumont, Texas

Confluence Health, Wenatchee, Washington

Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

BJC HealthCare, Columbia, Missouri

BJC HealthCare, St. Louis, Missouri

Enloe Medical Center, California

Cook County Health & Hospitals System, Illinois

BJC HealthCare, St. Louis, Missouri

Bon Secours Health System Inc., Newport News, Virginia

Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, Pennsylvania

Sinai Health System, Chicago, Illinois

CHRISTUS Health, Irving, Texas

TriHealth, Cincinnati, Ohio

Columbia Memorial Hospital, Astoria, Oregon

Webinars are excellent learning opportunities led by ASHHRA members and partners with specific expertise in the health care HR profession. Don't miss the upcoming webinar on Tuesday, May 24:"A No-Cost Approach to Solving Staffing Shortages Before They Begin: Strategic Academic/Clinical Education Partnerships." (The webinar is free of charge for members, but advanced registration is required.)

The medical field can take a lesson from corporate America in valuing the importance of emotional intelligence or EQ, writes health care policy expert Paul H. Keckley, Ph.D., in a recent report. EQ is essentially a person's ability to sense the feelings of those around them and respond appropriately and up until now, the application of EQ in health care has been mostly limited to interactions between caregivers and patients. But as the system moves from volume to value-based incentives, those applications are growing.

Employers can provide employees big incentives or insurance discounts if they answer questions about their health, according to new rules issued this week by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The EEOC issued final rules regarding how corporate wellness programs work with existing anti-discrimination laws and affirmed that wellness programs would be considered voluntary as long as an employer's incentives or discounts don’t exceed more than 30 percent of the cost of an employee’s individual "self-only" health coverage.

Summer is fast approaching and all indicators point to it being a strong season for hiring. In fact, 91 percent of employers who hire hourly workers anticipate hiring the same or more workers this summer — a 17 percent increase over 2015, a recent survey from SnagAJob found.