Workforce

The quit rate for American workers saw yet another series high in November 2021, reaching 4.5 million, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Jan. 4.

Nurse employment remained low while wages increased during the first 15 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, suggesting a tightening labor market in which demand outpaced supply, according to a study published Jan. 4 in Health Affairs.

Summa Health in Akron, Ohio, has updated its employee COVID-19 quarantine protocol to allow employees who test positive to return to work if they have no or mild symptoms, a health system spokesperson confirmed to Becker's. 

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Seventeen states are experiencing critical staffing shortages in at least 25 percent of their hospitals, according to HHS data posted Jan. 3.

The most recent COVID-19 surge amid the spread of the omicron variant has sidelined healthcare workers for reasons related to the coronavirus.

CMS has released guidance and survey procedures for the 25 states where its COVID-19 vaccination mandate for healthcare workers is not currently blocked. 

More than 3,000 caregivers across the Cleveland Clinic health system were out with COVID-19 as of Dec. 30, a spokesperson told Becker's. 

Ten providers — including University of Chicago Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital and Denver Health — recently posted job listings seeking leaders to help payer contracting and relations. 

Three-fourths of healthcare facilities in the U.S. are seeking temporary allied healthcare professionals, mainly to fill gaps while permanent workers are being hired, according to a Dec. 29 survey from AMN Healthcare.