Women have been flocking from the medical field during the pandemic, and a Harvard physician launched a gender equity campaign to encourage employers to support their female employees and bring awareness to why they are leaving.
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Citing their desire to protect patients, visitors, colleagues and communities, hospitals and health systems across the U.S. have announced COVID-19 vaccination requirements for employees. But protests have also popped up, organized by people who oppose these policies.
Houston hospitals under strain amid a COVID-19 surge are getting some help from nursing students, according to CBS-affiliated TV station KHOU.
COVID-19 is surging again across the country, and frontline healthcare professionals in hotspots are facing overwhelming caseloads. The extreme and extended pressures of the pandemic will leave behind long-term changes to our workplace. Employers must now apply what we've learned…
Mississippi health officials said hospitals there are requesting backup as they grapple with inadequate staffing amid the latest COVID-19 wave, according to the Clarion Ledger.
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To support staffing, recruitment and retention efforts, Samaritan Health is raising current and starting wages, the Watertown, N.Y.-based health system said Aug. 18.
Amid a COVID-19 surge fueled by the delta variant, U.S. hospitals are increasingly requiring vaccination for employees — and taking an array of approaches to offering them.
The number of cities and states requiring COVID-19 vaccination for employees is growing amid the latest COVID-19 wave.
Kindred Hospital Northwest Indiana, a 70-bed long-term acute care hospital in Hammond, is shuttering.
Three out of 4 Florida hospitals, or 75.6 percent, expect a critical staffing shortage in the next seven days, according to survey results released Aug. 17 by the Florida Hospital Association.