nurses
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Centura offers $30,000 bonuses to entice nursing hires
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Labor is running thin, so Centura Health is increasing incentives for nurses to make the job more attractive to prospective workers. The Colorado-based health organization, which includes Penrose-St. Francis Health Services in Colorado Springs and encompasses 21,000 health care professionals across Colorado and western Kansas, is offering $30,000 signing bonuses for night shift nurses who join…
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Senate approves bill easing professionals’ ability to work in Colorado
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The state Senate on Tuesday approved legislation that seeks to ease professionals’ ability to work in Colorado. Senate Bill 22-116, which received the chamber’s unanimous support on third reading, would allow individuals with a license, certification or military occupational specialty from another state to get the applicable license in Colorado quicker by deleting a requirement to…
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Nursing bill picks up bragging rights en route to guv’s office
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Like the first baby born on New Year’s Day, a proposal to include Colorado in a multi-state network that will share information and speed background checks on nurses – improving their ability to work across state lines – became the first bill to clear the 2018 legislature. The bipartisan Senate Bill 27, introduced in the upper…




