Here are four hospitals and health systems that plan to raise their minimum wage:
1. Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health will raise its minimum wage to $15 per hour, effective in January.
2. New Orleans-based Ochsner Health System will raise its minimum wage from $8.10 per hour to $12 per hour, effective Jan. 20.
3. Marlton, N.J.-based Virtua, one of the state's largest nonprofit health systems, will increase its minimum wage to $15.15 per hour, effective Jan. 1.
4. Advocate Aurora Health — the health system formed through the merger of Downers Grove, Ill.-based Advocate Health Care and Milwaukee-based Aurora Health — will incrementally increase its minimum wage to $15 per hour by early 2021.
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