Workforce

Psychiatric advanced practice nurse Alan "Tony" Amberg, MSN, APRN, is a familiar face at Chicago-based Northwestern Memorial Hospital. 

The American Association of Colleges of Nursing and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have long discussed concerns regarding nursing workforce-shortage projections secondary to a variety of factors.1, 2

Hospitals and health systems are the largest employers in 17 U.S. states, according to an analysis by 24/7 Wall Street, which runs a financial news and opinion company.

New York nursing homes and adult care facilities must ensure twice-weekly COVID-19 testing for all staff and report positive results to the state's health department by the following day, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at a media briefing May 10.

In a weekend interview, White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett projected the nation's unemployment rate to surpass 20 percent, according to The Washington Post.

At least 90,000 healthcare workers have been infected with the new coronavirus across the globe, a new report says.

Healthcare lost 1.4 million jobs in April amid the COVID-19 pandemic, primarily in ambulatory healthcare services, according to the latest jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Physicians, nurses and other front-line hospital workers have undoubtedly faced significant challenges while caring for COVID-19 patients. But the pandemic has also taken a toll on nonmedical hospital workers, according to The New York Times. 

An executive at Allina Health, an 11-hospital system in Minneapolis, is warning that more workforce changes are imminent given the financial hit from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Star Tribune.

A total of 2,259 healthcare staff with the Department of Veterans Affairs had tested positive for COVID-19 as of May 1, according to VA data provided to Becker's Hospital Review.