Workforce

Pennsylvania's state health secretary issued an order June 9 requiring all hospitals to better protect staff from COVID-19. 

U.S. job openings hit a record low in April while turnovers decreased to 9.9 million, according to the latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

The need to respond to medical emergencies at protest sites is creating unprecedented working conditions for emergency medical services teams already burdened by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Kaiser Health News.

Physicians, nurses and emergency medical technicians are now dealing with the physical, mental and emotional effects from their experiences on the front lines of the pandemic.  

At least 586 U.S. front-line healthcare workers have died of COVID-19, according to a new count published June 6 by The Guardian and Kaiser Health News.

A record number of nurses and healthcare workers have lost their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic as hospitals halted revenue-generating elective surgeries and routine procedures, according to Newsweek.

Healthcare added 312,400 jobs in May, primarily in ambulatory healthcare services, while job losses at hospitals continued, according to the latest jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

A total of 1.9 million Americans filed initial unemployment claims in the week ended May 30, according to seasonally adjusted data released June 4 by the U.S. Labor Department.

Southfield, Mich.-based Beaumont Health will outsource certified registered nurse anesthetists at the health system's Dearborn, Taylor, Trenton and Wayne campuses to NorthStar Anesthesia, an Irving, Texas-based anesthesiology group.

St. Joseph's Health and Crouse Health, both based in Syracuse, N.Y., are starting to bring furloughed workers back as they resume certain nonemergency procedures, according to Syracuse.com.