Category: Workforce

Hospitals and health systems are focusing on efforts to fill staffing gaps and provide flexibility to the workforce. For some organizations, this means creating a talent pool.

Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health is rolling out a new “virtual connected care” model that will partner experienced virtual nurses with duos of on-site caregivers. 

Lansing, Mich.-based Sparrow Health is freezing hiring for jobs that do not “directly impact patient care,” the health system said in a Sept. 12 statement. 

To tangibly affect retention, employers should consider an increased focus on internal branding. 

A GoFundMe account set up by a co-worker of a Rhode Island nurse who was assaulted by a patient has raised more than $87,000.

Quiet quitting rose to popularity — online and on the clock — in summer 2022, as workers refused to go above and beyond their paygrade. Now, the movement has a hashtag: #ActYourWage, The New York Times reported Sept. 8. 

As hospitals and health systems face increased competition for talented workers, they continue to eye retention strategies beyond wages. This includes Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health, which partnered with Deloitte on a workforce strategy to embed le…

Most Gen Z workers aren’t planting workplace roots, according to a survey from ResumeLab. 

The young and rich aren’t the only ones flocking down South. 

Staffing shortages wreak havoc on hospital workforces, raising patient safety concerns and harming employee well-being. At this point, the problem is well-known — but the solutions remain unclear.