Memphis, Tenn.-based Prospero Health announced Oct. 25 an expansion of its headquarters to an 80,000-square-foot facility in downtown Memphis.
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Luminis Health is offering a bonus to full-time bedside registered nurses with more than two decades of experience, part of a $29 million investment in employee recruitment and retention, the Annapolis, Md.-based health system said Oct. 26.
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Patients with mental health crises are having to wait days to get beds in Georgia, Virginia and Texas as public facilities feel the strain of understaffing and the pandemic, NBC News reported Oct. 24.
Remote work has delivered a boost to employees' feelings of appreciation and contentment in their careers, according to a Velocity Global study.
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Vin Gupta, MD, chief health officer at Amazon, said investing into the top workforce health challenge aside from COVID-19 will have long-term gain, CNBC reported Oct. 22.
As staffing shortages persist in healthcare systems across the country, state officials are exploring different ways to alleviate the problem.
The World Health Organization on Oct. 21 urged leaders to take "immediate" and "concrete" action to protect healthcare workers against the COVID-19 pandemic, citing the estimated 115,000 who have died from the virus between January 2020 and May 2021.
U.S. employers are experiencing high demand for workers, but labor growth is being hindered by a low supply of workers, in part because of COVID-19 vaccination mandates, the Federal Reserve said Oct. 20.
Working women have been affected by child care shortages, dropping off the payroll. A study from care.com has shown that 53 percent of mothers are less satisfied now than before the pandemic.