Workforce

Hospitals and health systems across the U.S. are taking steps to ensure employees' well-being and help them manage stress amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Here is how five organizations are responding:

After a critical care physician at Midland (Texas) Memorial Hospital tested positive for the new coronavirus, the hospital is monitoring 23 employees who may have been exposed to the virus, a hospital spokesperson told Becker's.

New York City will hire 1,000 workers by the end of May to help track COVID-19 cases and contacts, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced April 27. 

We have been lucky in California. The population as a whole has taken social distancing very seriously with excellent leadership from Calif. Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. In addition, the expanse of the city and county…

Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care is cutting pay and staff hours amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the health system confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review.

New York has expanded COVID-19 diagnostic testing criteria to include all first responders, healthcare workers and essential employees even if they are asymptomatic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at a media briefing April 25.

New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are at highest risk for an inadequate supply of respiratory therapists at surge capacity, according to the latest projections from the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health's state health workforce deficit estimator.

More than half of those who were working on Feb. 1 said they have since lost a job, hours or income due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a poll from Kaiser Family Foundation. 

In April, healthcare workers at several sites protested about personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Envision Healthcare has deployed or reassigned more than 500 clinicians in six states to assist in fighting against the new coronavirus.