Workforce

MUSC Health, an eight-hospital system based in Charleston, S.C., has called back many employees who were temporarily laid off due to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Post and Courier reports.

Many tech professionals feel positively about seeking new jobs in the healthcare and pharma industries amid the pandemic, according to survey results released June 25 from Swiss drugmaker Novartis.

McLaren Bay Region Hospital, a 404-bed hospital in Bay City, Mich., is ending EMS services and eliminating 74 jobs, but emergency transportation services will move to a new provider, MLive.com reports. 

A total of 55 employees at Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital have tested positive for COVID-19 during the pandemic, a hospital official confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review.

HHS has awarded $107.2 million in funding to go toward increasing the healthcare workforce in rural and underserved communities.

A total of 17.7 million healthcare workers are potentially ineligible for emergency paid sick leave benefits through the federal Families First Coronavirus Response Act, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation analysis. 

The job future for some Easton (Pa.) Hospital workers remains uncertain as Dallas-based Steward Health Care prepares to transfer hospital ownership to St. Luke's University Health Network, according to The Express-Times.

As the U.S. aims to reduce the spread of COVID-19, the national number of contact tracers has risen from 11,142 to 37,110 in the past six weeks, according to an NPR survey of state health departments.

A high number of Americans continue to seek jobless benefits, but the number of those claims dipped slightly from last week  as states have started to reopen their economies, according to The Wall Street Journal.

A lack of testing and personal protective equipment are the two greatest challenges nurse practitioners face, according to a new national survey from the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.