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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.

Bright Beginnings Learning Center, the childcare center serving employees of Bay Area Hospital in Coos Bay, Ore., temporarily closed after staff resignations this month, a hospital executive confirmed May 14.

Employees at Cleveland-based MetroHealth who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 will be required to undergo weekly coronavirus testing, the health system said.

COVID-19 vaccines significantly reduce the likelihood of hospital workers testing positive for a coronavirus infection, two studies published in the JAMA Network suggest.