Workforce

Hershey, Pa.-based Penn State Health is looking to hire hundreds of workers and offering enticements to attract workers, according to Penn Live.

Advocate Aurora Health is implementing a new work model that will move 12,000 non-clinical employee positions in finance, consumer experience and more departments to remote-first operations, according to a May 21 BizTimes report. 

Houston Methodist nurses were among a group of roughly 50 to 75 people who protested the health system's COVID-19 vaccine requirement for employees over the weekend, the Houston Chronicle reported.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has signed a law that prohibits knowingly disseminating personal information about public health workers or public health workers' immediate family online if it poses an imminent and serious threat to the person's safety.

From partnerships between hospitals and medical schools to interdisciplinary physician training, University of New England President James Herbert, PhD, proposed five changes to a Senate health subcommittee on May 20 that could alleviate workforce shortages in healthcare.

RWJBarnabas Health is now requiring supervisors and above to be vaccinated for COVID-19, with plans to eventually extend the mandate to all employees, the West Orange, N.J.-based health system said May 20.

Philadelphia's six-hospital University of Pennsylvania Health System will make the COVID-19 vaccine mandatory for all employees and clinical staff, the health system said May 19.  

Most areas in the U.S. don't have access to pediatric emergency physicians, according to research published May 18 in JAMA Network Open.

The hospital workforce has declined by 37,000 jobs this year through April, contributing to decreased healthcare employment, according to an analysis released May 19 by nonprofit researchers Altarum.

Health insurer Humana is aiming to have its offices fully staffed again by Labor Day.