Residency is designed to produce highly skilled physicians that can execute under pressure. But as expectations for safety, quality and documentation have shifted, many health systems are reexamining whether traditional training structures unintentionally undermine the very clinicians they aim to…
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The physician assistant workforce grew 27.9% nationwide from 2020 to 2024, according to the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants’ 2024 Statistical Profile of Board Certified PAs by State. South Carolina led the nation with a 48% increase in…
Bend, Ore.-based St. Charles Health System plans to cover tuition for 30 individuals interested in becoming certified medical assistants over the next year as it works to address staffing shortages across its outpatient clinics. St. Charles will cover the full…
After years of workforce volatility and premium labor costs, Hackensack Meridian Health is seeing measurable results from a focused stabilization strategy, including a $41 million reduction in contracted labor and agency utilization last year. Regina Foley, president of specialty hospitals…
Of the 34 physicians Nauman Mushtaq, MD, has hired in the last decade, only two have left the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital. Yet he’s recruited from University of Chicago, Brigham and Women’s, Johns Hopkins and…
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Newport Beach, Calif.-based Hoag Health received $30 million to support its workforce housing initiative. Hoag’s Sun Family Campus in Irvine, Calif., will provide affordable housing to Hoag staff, according to a Feb. 9 system news release. The initiative will provide…
A University of Minnesota Medical School course formed in partnership with UnitedHealth Group will undergo revisions, the Minneapolis-based school confirmed to Becker’s Feb. 11. First taught in 2024, “Leadership and Value: A UnitedHealth Group-UMN Collaboration” is a fourth-year elective that focuses on…
Healthcare employment continued to grow in January, with the industry adding 81,900 jobs, according to the latest report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. BLS released the January jobs report Feb. 11. Here are three more takeaways: 1. January’s…
Stronger, Smarter, and More Committed When Cross Country Healthcare’s proposed transaction with Aya was terminated, some assumed Cross Country would emerge diminished. Instead, the moment became a catalyst for renewal—reenergizing leadership, sharpening strategy, and accelerating innovation. Far from slowing momentum,…
Health systems and other healthcare organizations formed a national coalition Feb. 10 in response to proposed federal loan limits for graduate students. Statutory changes outlined in H.R.1 to cap federal loans for graduate and professional students will establish a $20,500…