The Healthcare Workforce Sustainability Alliance called on state legislators to pass a supplemental appropriation aimed at retaining current healthcare workers, recruiting new workers and funding a scholarship program to establish a workforce pipeline.
Details about exactly how the amount would be spent were not disclosed.
A possible source for a bailout would be federal COVID-19 funding, said Brian Peters, CEO of the Michigan Health & Hospital Association.
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