Workforce

Cleveland hospitals and colleges are teaming up to build a strong healthcare workforce, reports Spectrum News 1. 

As of the end of July, 45 states and the District of Columbia reported a total of 41,122 contact tracers, according to NPR's latest survey, done in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.

Chillicothe, Ohio-based Adena Health System confirmed it has brought back most staff it furloughed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Healthcare added 125,500 jobs in July, with hospitals seeing job growth for the second month since March, according to the latest jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Before the widespread transmission of COVID-19 in the U.S., 42 percent of physicians were feeling "burned out," according to a survey of more than 15,000 physicians published in January. As the pandemic rages on, increased workload and stress levels, longer…

Huntsville (Ala.) Hospital has 156 employees out in Madison County due to issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic, local TV station WAAY reports.

Thirty Northwell Health intensive care unit nurses will work at Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare to support workers in Utah amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Intermountain announced.

The number of patients and employees at a Massachusetts hospital who have tested positive for COVID-19 has climbed to 55, reports MassLive.com.

A study of front-line healthcare workers in the United Kingdom and U.S. found they were at higher risk of infection than the general public — even with adequate personal protective equipment, according to a study published in The Lancet Public…

As COVID-19 continues to spread across the U.S., some hospitals are tracking COVID-19 exposure through sensors in employees' badges, reports CNBC.