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The ILR Review proudly announces the publication of its special issue on Work & Employment Relations in Health Care.  It showcases the central role that work organization and employment relations play in shaping important outcomes such as the quality of care and organizational performance.  Each article contributes to our understanding of the rapidly changing health care sector.  These articles provide novel empirical evidence about the relationship between organizations, institutions and work practices, and a wide array of central outcomes across different levels of analysis.  Together, they shed new light on the role that health information technologies play in patient care and productivity, the relationship between work practices and organizational reliability, staffing practices, processes and outcomes, health care unions' effects on the quality of patient care, and the relationship between the quality of jobs and the quality of care.