Category: Workforce

Upstate New York healthcare leaders and lawmakers are urging state legislative action to address staffing shortages that they say have become a crisis, the Times Union reported Dec. 7. 

While the trend of “quiet quitting” gained traction on social media earlier this year, there is another workforce trend being discussed recently: “career cushioning,” according to Bloomberg News.

A heavily remote workforce may be slowing an overhaul of the CDC, Kaiser Health News reported Dec. 5. 

Congressional proposals to change green card rules could have a highly negative effect on the ability of healthcare groups to employ foreign nurses at a time of national labor shortages, the American Hospital Association warned in a letter to House of …

Generation Z will compose 30 percent of the workforce by 2030 — and their after-tax income is expected to reach $2 trillion in the same time frame, according to a recent report from social media company Snap Inc. 

Oregon Health Authority is bringing in about 112 nurses and respiratory therapists to meet requests from children’s hospitals, the government agency confirmed to Becker’s.

Mercy, a multistate health system based in Chesterfield, Mo., has harnessed an employment model usually associated with ride-share services and food delivery and applied it to nursing. 

The term “burnout” understates the struggles of healthcare professionals — “moral injury” is a more accurate attribution, psychologist Jessica Jackson, PhD, wrote in a Dec. 3 article for Quartz. 

University Hospitals has suspended two workers who were charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Citing a need to further reduce overhead expenses and support additional investments in patient care and wages, Traverse City, Mich.-based Munson Health is eliminating 31 positions, a spokesperson confirmed to Becker’s.