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Former ‘health coaches’ tell the FT about concerns with weight-loss targets and staffing at $4.2bn start-up
...the cost and availability of healthcare....
...But in today’s financialised healthcare system, it’s more likely to be a private equity-owned “physician staffing” company....
...Blackstone acquired hospital staffing supplier Team Health in 2016 and two years later, KKR bought physician services and emergency room operator Envision Healthcare for $9.9bn....
...Staffing companies say they are able to offer hospitals greater flexibility over personnel levels on any given day....
...Transportation is also a concern, with many delivery companies already struggling with low staffing levels and high demand as the US economy emerges from its pandemic slumber....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on June 15 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...States, counties and cities have been left with large bills for healthcare and law enforcement....
...Now it is working with lenders to Hertz and Envision Healthcare, a medical staffing firm backed by the private equity group KKR....
...Uber is developing a new short-term staffing business, dubbed Uber Works, that would help to diversify its business ahead of next year’s planned initial public offering....
...The main passive houses have all increased the staffing of their stewardship departments, showing that they are prepared to incur some costs....
...This more than 50 per cent increase in Facebook’s London staffing comes despite some technology executives warning that Brexit is limiting the ability of UK businesses to hire skilled coders and developers...
...Instead of staffing their on-site healthcare facilities, gyms, gourmet cafés and other amenities with outsourced contract labour, they can hire service workers directly and pay them better wages....
...Alyse Forcellina, leader of the Americas healthcare practice at executive recruitment consultancy Egon Zehnder, says Big Pharma needs outsiders because “nobody in pharma is excellent at digital”....
...The DoJ in recent years has sued to block mergers of airlines, tax preparation firms, healthcare providers, appliance makers and breweries....
...Staffing accounts for more than 70 per cent of costs in the care-home industry....
...In October, the Financial Times reported that the company had struggled with the accuracy of its tests and staffing issues at one of its labs....
...Mr Göbel says that in the long term, drones could be particularly effective serving clinics in rural areas that have limited staffing levels at weekends or at night time: “We’re not talking about an Amazon-type...
...According to the World Health Organisation, annual flu outbreaks cost the US economy between $71bn and $167bn a year in lost productivity and additional healthcare costs, giving this year’s outbreak the...
...Organisation) Krishen Sud (Sivik Global Healthcare, Inc.)...
...Healthcare Locums , which provides staffing solutions in the health and social care sectors, dropped 17.7 per cent to 2.8p after former shareholders filed suit against the company in the US, alleging misrepresentation...
...A survey by Modis, an IT staffing group, found that cloud computing, software as a service, security and mobile solutions are the leading technology areas poised for growth....
...The battle at Healthcare Locums, the troubled staffing group, took another dramatic twist on Friday when it emerged that rebel shareholders had succeeded in forcing chairman Alan Walker to resign....
...It wants to enable them to act more like consultants, advising companies on their workforce strategies, and to sell the full range of the group’s services, including staffing and outplacement....
...The cuts hit a sector struggling as inflation has grown faster than their fees for the past few years, driven by rent rises that are written into leases and staffing costs that have been pushed up by rises...
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