West Virginia has the highest concentration of healthcare workers in the U.S., with 17% of its workforce employed in healthcare, according to a Becker’s analysis of federal employment data. Becker’s analyzed May 2025 employment data from the Bureau of Labor…
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More than 24% of mid-career U.S. professionals are employed but without a meaningful promotion or raise for five or more years — a phenomenon researchers call “mid-career stall” — according to a May report from the Burning Glass Institute and…
Conversations around workforce have become the operating equation health systems are building their futures around. Labor costs, retention, language access, learning and the data that ties them all together are increasingly boardroom conversations defining short and long-term strategy. Below are…
Though now fixtures of the healthcare workforce, the physician assistant and nurse practitioner professions started with only a single training program and a handful of graduates. Katie McLaughlin, PhD, executive director of the Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health at…
Generation Z is entering the workforce at a moment of significant disruption, with AI poised to reshape entire industries before many new graduates have found their footing, The Wall Street Journal reported May 27. LinkedIn predicts today’s workforce entrants will…
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Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare is navigating a workforce reality familiar to many Illinois health systems: recruiting talent in a state that continues to see population out-migration. While the 16-hospital system serves communities across Illinois and Michigan, many of its hospitals…
From regional plans to large, for-profit health insurers, 2026 has marked a year of executive transition. Here are 14 payer executives who shared plans to move out of the C-suite: 1. John Hastings, the chief growth officer for Elevance Health’s…
Healthcare workforce strategy has long operated on a simple premise: post a job, fill a seat, move on. Jeremy Stephens, executive vice president and chief human resources officer at Tidelands Health in Georgetown, S.C., says that model is becoming obsolete.…
When Carole Bennett talks about Sutter Health University, she doesn’t talk for program statistics first. She talks about one of her teammates. He joined Sutter Health in environmental services, what Sutter calls EBS work. He entered the Sacramento, Calif.-based health…
Texas, California and New York employ the nation’s highest numbers of nurse practitioners and physician assistants — two advanced practice provider roles central to healthcare delivery. Nationally, there are about 323,040 employed nurse practitioners and 162,150 physician assistants, according to…