Workforce

The healthcare labor market is expected to face shortages over the next five to 10 years as the U.S. continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Mercer’s "2021 External Healthcare Labor Market Analysis."

New York hospitals are seeing the effects on the workforce of the state's COVID-19 vaccine mandate as unvaccinated employees leave their jobs permanently or temporarily.

Cox Medical Center Branson (Mo.) will equip staff members with personal panic buttons to protect against violent patients, according to NBC News. 

As the deadline approached Sept. 27 for New York state's healthcare COVID-19 vaccination mandate, thousands of workers got inoculated, boosting the state's vaccination rate and avoiding a worst-case staffing crisis, according to The New York Times. 

Northwell Health said about two dozen leaders at the management level, or above, were not allowed to continue their roles at the New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based system because they chose not to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure is explaining the reasoning behind a federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers amid concerns of understaffing at hospitals and nursing homes, particularly in rural areas.

As hospitals and health systems face challenging shortages, Becker's Hospital Review asked leaders to share their insight on retaining and attracting revenue cycle management and IT talent.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has unveiled a plan to address staffing shortages if large numbers of healthcare workers leave hospitals and other facilities because of the state's COVID-19 vaccination mandate.

Staffing shortages affecting Idaho hospitals have been exacerbated during the pandemic, but experts contend requirements mandating the COVID-19 vaccine for healthcare workers are not the root cause of the situation, the Post Register reported Sept. 23.

Ahead of the effective date for New York state's COVID-19 vaccine mandate, state officials and hospitals are bracing for possible shortages of healthcare workers because of the requirement, The Washington Post reported Sept. 24.