New Jersey will postpone the Feb. 28 deadline for all healthcare workers to receive a COVID-19 booster shot. 

CMS will not release quarterly data on the number of hospital workers vaccinated against COVID-19 and instead will release a full year of the data in October, an agency spokesperson confirmed to Becker's.  

Nurses under 35 years old have been hit hard by the pandemic, with many suffering from mental health issues and over half of them considering leaving their positions already, signaling a looming crisis and need for organizational change, according to a new survey. 

With caregivers dealing with significant burnout due to the pandemic and more clinicians and nurses reaching retirement age, the current shortage of healthcare workers will likely get worse before it improves. Caregivers struggle to maintain balance as they continue to face new variants and surges that fill capacity and strain the entire health system. Reports indicate significant rates of stress and exhaustion. For healthcare leaders, this crisis should serve as a call to action in examining how they help their staff curb the effects of burnout and deliver better patient care.

Stress and burnout are well known and documented among healthcare professionals, and given the rising risk of cyberattacks, health IT teams are also under mounting pressure. Work-related physical maladies, though, also afflict both groups, according to a report from design company Ergotron, published March. 1.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals and health systems have been focused on retaining employees by ensuring their staffing needs are met.  

Columbia-based University of Missouri Health Care is launching a program to recruit contract-based nurses.

Nurses are in high demand and short supply across the US. However, some hospitals like Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles are able to successfully hire and retain nurses.

Primary care physician turnover leads to nearly $1 billion in annual excess healthcare spending, and work-related burnout is a significant contributing factor, according to a new American Medical Association-led study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

Columbia, Md.-based MedStar Health has launched a center for well-being to support its healthcare workers manage stress and improve their overall wellness. 

As hospitals look to fill nursing shortages, they are bringing in foreign workers to help ease staffing strain experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Massachusetts has more licensed nurses now, in nearly every category, than before the pandemic. So why do many hospitals have job vacancies?

Violence against healthcare workers is a subject recently highlighted by healthcare organizations across the U.S., which are asking patients to show kindness and patience to staff. It's also picking up steam among state legislators, who are introducing bills to protect healthcare staff. 

New Jersey hospital executives are asking Gov. Phil Murphy to postpone the Feb. 28 deadline for all healthcare workers to receive a COVID-19 booster shot, which tens of thousands of employees have yet to receive, according to North Jersey Media Group.

Healthcare workers have left their roles — or professions altogether — in droves amid the pandemic, a trend often attributed to burnout. But is the answer more complicated than that? Becker's reached out to healthcare workers across the country to gain insight into why they left healthcare or full-time hospital jobs and what would have made them stay.

Hospital systems in southwest Florida say the lack of affordable housing is hindering their ability to plug staff shortages, Fox 4 reported Feb. 24.

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits declined last week, and the number of people collecting unemployment benefits hit the lowest level since 1970, the Labor Department reported Feb. 24.  

"Healthcare workers are quitting in droves because they are burned out." That's the convenient story. But is it the right one? 

Hospitals in Washington state warned that they anticipate permanent care delays and cuts to services if proposed staffing legislation under consideration by state lawmakers is enacted.

As CMS' COVID-19 vaccination mandate is in effect nationwide, the agency is allowing flexibility in terms of when healthcare workers are considered fully vaccinated.