The Health Care Workforce Crisis Is Already Here

Demoralized doctors and nurses are leaving the field, hospitals are sounding the alarm about workforce shortages and employees are increasingly unionizing and even going on strike in high-profile disputes with their employers. Dire forecasts of health care worker shortages often look to a decade or more from now, but the pandemic — and its ongoing fallout — has already ushered in a volatile era of dissatisfied workers and understaffed health care facilities. Complaints about understaffing, administrative burdens and inadequate wages aren’t new, but they are getting much louder — and more health workers are leaving their jobs or cutting back their hours.

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Source: https://www.axios.com/2024/06/07/health-care-worker-shortages-us-crisis

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