Workforce

Mercy Health Muskegon (Mich.) is recruiting nurses to provide support amid a growing number of COVID-19 cases, the hospital confirmed to Becker's Nov. 17. 

A member of President-elect Joe Biden's COVID-19 task force has partnered with the Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation to create a fund to help families of front-line healthcare workers who have died from the coronavirus.

Leaders of Cleveland Clinic, MetroHealth System and University Hospitals are urging residents to help slow COVID-19 spread as cases rise in Ohio and their health systems see more workers sidelined due to the pandemic, according to WOSU Radio.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has issued an interim final rule to confirm authority for VA healthcare clinicians to practice across state lines, regardless of if it conflicts with state requirements.

As environmental services workers get ready for their shifts at Salem (Ore.) Health, they take a moment to engage in positivity. They get sticky notes and pens, write down celebratory moments and put the notes on a wall in their…

As COVID-19 surges are seen across the country, many health systems are struggling to recruit employees and sustain adequate staffing.

Premier Health said it is outsourcing about 700 employees across the Dayton, Ohio-based health system as it transitions environmental services and nutritional services departments to an external partner.

The following hospitals and health systems are hiring workers:

Intermountain Healthcare is ramping up its nursing workforce as COVID-19 hospitalizations rise in Utah, the Salt Lake City-based health system said Nov. 11. 

A sampling of U.S. hospitals and healthcare sites where employees have tested positive for COVID-19, as reported in November: