Job candidates with disabilities are more likely to make a positive first impression on prospective employers when they promote technical skills rather than soft skills, such as their ability to lead others, Rutgers University researchers advise.
In honor of National Disability Employment Awareness Month, Diane Winiarski, the director of vocational rehabilitation at Allsup Employment Services, provides insight on the current state of disability employment in the country. The article appears in Forbes.
SourceAmerica, which creates job opportunities for people with disabilities, announces the high school and college finalists in its Design Challenge, in which teams compete to design and build assistive workplace technology.
The National Council on Disability (NCD) has released its annual progress report on national disability policy.
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Helen Hayes Hospital announces that its Skilled Nursing Facility and Transitional Care Unit have once again received five-star ratings from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Five-Star Quality Rating System.
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Employers are discovering the value of bringing healthcare providers directly to the work site for work injury prevention and management. A feature for the September/October 2018 issue of Rehab Management by Kristen L. Cederlind, OTR/L.
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Kessler Foundation has released five impact reports highlighting the outcomes of grants supported under its Signature Employment Grant (SEG) program.
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Marquis Health Services introduces telemedicine, provided by TripleCare, to two of its locations: Blueberry Hill Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in Beverly, Mass, and Oakland Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in Oakland, NJ.
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Galt Foundation, a nonprofit staffing organization for people with disabilities, announces its expansion to Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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SourceAmerica announces the finalists of the 2018 Design Challenge, a competition to design new ways to improve the workplace for people with disabilities.
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Atlanta-based Jackson Healthcare, a provider of healthcare staffing, search, and technology services across the United States, has acquired Avant Healthcare Professionals of Orlando, Florida.
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AccentCare Inc and UCLA Health announce the formation of AccentCare UCLA, a jointly owned health services agency serving patients in Los Angeles and the surrounding communities.
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An analysis of survey data suggests that hospitals that employ nurses who are certified in wound, ostomy, and continence (WOC) care have lower rates of hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPIs).
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Participants in the Invictus Games Orlando 2016 are receiving prosthetics and orthotics technical services provided by Ottobock.
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Precision Health Care LLC, Boca Raton, Fla, reports that is has launched its Giving Partners Solutions In-Source Program to assist hospitals in transitioning its current wound centers from third-party management to self-managed facilities.
Read MoreIn a move that will result in their becoming one of the largest independently owned groups in the United States, two Minnesota-area orthopedic practices—Twin Cities Orthopedics and St Croix Orthopaedics—have announced that they will be joining forces beginning this summer.
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For the fourth time in 5 years, Craig Hospital has been named a winner of the 2014 NDNQI Award for Outstanding Nursing Quality. The award recognizes the top-performing rehabilitation hospital that has achieved excellence in overall performance in nursing quality indicators.
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According to today’s National Trends in Disability Employment—Monthly Update (nTIDE), May jobs report indicates that Americans with disabilities continue to experience disparity in the economy’s job growth.
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