Workforce

Healthcare leaders have spent years focused on physician shortages, but today’s workforce challenges extend beyond recruitment alone. Across the industry, organizations are balancing growing patient volumes, provider turnover, service line expansion, financial pressures, and rising expectations around access to care.…

Travel nursing demand rose in most states since the end of the second quarter of 2026, according to Aya Healthcare data shared with Becker’s. Aya Healthcare provides temporary staffing, permanent staff placement, vendor management, float pool technology and predictive analytics.…

Health systems are asking nurse managers to oversee 24/7 units while balancing staffing, budgets, quality, length-of-stay goals and the needs of dozens of employees. Some are now confronting another question: How do they persuade nurses to want the job? At…

Hospitals and health systems are bracing for a potential wave of baby boomer retirements. Meanwhile, many Generation X workers could stay in their roles longer, according to an Aug. 19 Korn Ferry article. Professionals in their mid-50s used to be…

While some hiring managers may be skeptical of applicants with experience at several companies over a short time period, so-called “job hoppers” could bring a valuable skill to teams, according to a recent study. Analyzing data from 8,700 hedge fund…

UChicago Medicine cut advanced practice provider turnover by 10%, saved $25 million in direct costs and increased clinic patient access by 200% with a systemwide APP transformation, Brooke Schweitzer, DMSc, PA-C, the system’s chief advanced practice officer, told Becker’s. It…

Security personnel at St. Joseph’s Health in Syracuse, N.Y., will be able to serve as peace officers under a new state law aimed at addressing workplace violence in hospitals, according to an Aug. 18 report by Spectrum News 1. Gov.…

A new C-suite position has been gaining traction among hospitals and health systems the last few years: chief advanced practice officer. Also called chief APPs, chief advanced practice officers oversee nurse practitioners, physician assistants and other advanced practice providers across…

Health systems by and large have realized that advanced practice providers are essential to meeting growing patient demand. The challenge is no longer about just hiring enough APPs to fill the staffing needs; it is about building organizations that allow…

Higher pay, flexible work arrangements and a clearer path to the top would make Gen Z and millennial workers more likely to pursue leadership roles, according to Deloitte’s 2026 Gen Z and Millennial Survey. The findings are based on responses…