Workforce

The physician assistant workforce grew 27.9% nationwide from 2020 to 2024, according to the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants’ 2024 Statistical Profile of Board Certified PAs by State. South Carolina led the nation with a 48% increase in…

Bend, Ore.-based St. Charles Health System plans to cover tuition for 30 individuals interested in becoming certified medical assistants over the next year as it works to address staffing shortages across its outpatient clinics. St. Charles will cover the full…

After years of workforce volatility and premium labor costs, Hackensack Meridian Health is seeing measurable results from a focused stabilization strategy, including a $41 million reduction in contracted labor and agency utilization last year. Regina Foley, president of specialty hospitals…

Healthcare is fueling U.S. job growth, but inside hospitals and health systems, momentum is changing.  Healthcare added 81,900 of the 130,000 jobs created nationwide in January, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, “way outperforming most of the rest…

Beginning in April, Boston-based Brigham and Women’s Hospital will phase out all currently contracted Dana-Farber Cancer Institute physician assistants by the end of 2026, according to a Feb. 12 Boston Globe report.  Dana-Farber, also based in Boston, is ending its…

Of the 34 physicians Nauman Mushtaq, MD, has hired in the last decade, only two have left the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital. Yet he’s recruited from University of Chicago, Brigham and Women’s, Johns Hopkins and…

Newport Beach, Calif.-based Hoag Health received $30 million to support its workforce housing initiative. Hoag’s Sun Family Campus in Irvine, Calif., will provide affordable housing to Hoag staff, according to a Feb. 9 system news release. The initiative will provide…

A University of Minnesota Medical School course formed in partnership with UnitedHealth Group will undergo revisions, the Minneapolis-based school confirmed to Becker’s Feb. 11. First taught in 2024, “Leadership and Value: A UnitedHealth Group-UMN Collaboration” is a fourth-year elective that focuses on…

Healthcare employment continued to grow in January, with the industry adding 81,900 jobs, according to the latest report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. BLS released the January jobs report Feb. 11. Here are three more takeaways: 1. January’s…

A Republican representative from Florida has introduced legislation that would eliminate the federal H-1B visa program, which allows employers to hire highly skilled foreign professionals through temporary work visas. Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., introduced the Ending Exploitative Imported Labor Exemptions,…