Healthcare lost 43,000 jobs in March, with job losses primarily in ambulatory healthcare services, according to the latest jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Spectrum Health will add hundreds of temporary positions as is prepares for a surge of COVID-19 patients, according to mlive.com.
Hospital employees are among the confirmed cases of COVID-19. Here are U.S. hospitals or other healthcare sites where employees have tested positive during the pandemic.
Some Florida hospitals are reducing hours for healthcare workers amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to TV station WJXT.
Minneapolis-based M Health Fairview said it expects to cut work hours for some of its staff beginning April 6, the Star Tribune reported.
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As hospitals face an influx of COVID-19 patients, hospitals are ramping up their bed capacity, but they may not have enough nurses to staff them, a professor from University of California, San Francisco wrote in a Health Affairs blog.
The U.S. State Department is opening up visa processing for medical professionals from other countries.
In the last week or two, hospital and health systems nurses have protested their lack of access to personal protective equipment as they care for COVID-19 patients.
Newton, Mass.-based Atrius Health, the state's largest independent physician group, is temporarily closing offices, furloughing many nonclinical employees and deferring pay for remaining workers amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Kaiser Health News reported.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed an executive order to get thousands of new healthcare workers into the field to help the state manage the influx of COVID-19 patients. The effort to recruit more workers is called the California Health…