HARTFORD, Conn. — A local group from the New England Health Care Employee’s union called for action on International Women’s Day Wednesday from Connecticut lawmakers and Gov. Ned Lamont for funding to staff the Sisters Together Achieve Recovery or STAR program. The STAR program shut down during the pandemic, but due to staffing shortages and lack of funding the program will close
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Hospitals, health systems and ASCs are facing devastating physician and nurse shortages, and many leaders feel policy makers’ solutions are insufficient. Marsha Haley, MD, clinical assistant professor of radiation oncology at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, recently joinedBecker’sto discuss physician pay and healthcare trends. Editor’s note: These responses were edited lightly for brevity and clarity. Question: What healthcare trends
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Ontario is projected to be short 33,000 nurses and personal support workers by 2028 despite Premier Doug Ford’s investment in the sector, the province’s fiscal watchdog said in a specialhealth-care reportreleased Wednesday. The Financial Accountability Office (FAO),which is a body that provides independent analysis on the state of Ontario’s finances, also saysthe government will be short $21 billion to cover
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As a nurse for 38 years, I have had the privilege to care for patients in a variety of roles including as a nurse on the front line at a neonatal intensive care unit in Las Vegas. From there, I now have the honor of leading nurse and physician collaboration and service initiatives like patient experience, nursing recruitment, retention and
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Like so many others in aged care, Viv Allanson says it is going to be “impossible” for her facility to meet key government deadlines for new standards in the sector, saying “the pressure is absolutely enormous”. Ms Allanson runs Maroba Aged Care in the New South Wales city of Newcastle, which is scrambling to recruit enough registered nurses to staff
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The Biden Administration recently announced its intent to end the national emergency and public health emergency declarations on May 11, 2023, over three years since the COVID-19 pandemic began. While there have certainly been significant changes over the past three years since the COVID-19 pandemic began, there will also be significant changes when the public health emergency ends. For example,
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The Washington state senate passed a bill to address the health care staffing shortage by mitigating unmanageablepatient loads and worker burnout. Senate Bill 5236 sponsored by Senator June Robinson (D-Everett) will require hospitals to submit staffing plans to the Department of Health. The expected staff-to-patient staffing standards would be developed by a hospital’s designated nurse staffing committee, composed of 50% nursing
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Full staffing is central to patient experience, and patient experience is central to the health care system’s future, executives said. Read more.
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The University of Waikato has doubled its intake of nursing students for 2023 in the face of severe staff shortages in the health workforce, welcoming a record 211 new students into its Registered Nursing programmes. The acting dean of Te Huataki Waiora School of Health, Dr Jo Lane, says: “We’re really pleased to welcome so many high-quality nursing students to
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The Chamber report argues policymakers and business leaders must quickly ramp up their efforts to establish a “risk-based regulatory framework” that will ensure AI is deployed responsibly. It added that AI is projected to add $13 trillion to global economic growth by 2030 and that it has made important contributions such as easing hospital nursing shortages and mapping wildfires to
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