SYRACUSE, N.Y. —A $32 million dollar expansion is in the process at Onondaga Community College’s School of Health. The college is preparing more nurses and other health care workers as Central New York hospitals continue to combat staff shortages. The multi-million-dollar expansion will reconfigure and renovate the health school and Ferrante Hall in order to double degree certifications and short-term
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) – Healthcare sectors across the board are still dealing with staffing shortages but there is one industry being impacted more than others. The American Health Care Associationreportsnursing homes are the most impacted with over 200,000 jobs lost since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Jamie Harding with AARP said thirty percent of Alabama nursing homes are short-staffed.
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We used data from National Health Workforce Account 2018, Periodic Labour Force Survey 2018–19, population projection of Census of India, and government documents and reports. We distinguish between total stock of health professionals and active health workforce. We estimated current shortages in the health workforce using WHO and ILO recommended health worker:population ratio thresholds and extrapolated the supply of health
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TORONTO,March 2, 2023/CNW/ –A strong and vibrant nursing workforce is the key to a well-functioning health system and a healthy population. To ensure the health and wellbeing of Ontarians, government must dedicate full attention to nursing and provide adequate and sustained funding and supports, argues a new report by the Registered Nurses’ Association ofOntario(RNAO). Released Thursday during RNAO’s 23rdannual Queen’sPark
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The UConn School of Nursing and the UConn School of Social Work (SSW) have been awarded more than $6 million through the new CT Health Horizons program to address statewide shortages in social work and nursing. The funding is fromCT Health Horizons, a higher education program designed to address statewide shortages in social work and nursing. Beginning this spring, and over three
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TEXAS (CBSNewsTexas.com)– Almost one out of every 10 hospitals in Texas is in danger of closing – that alarming statistic comes from the Texas Hospital Association, citing soaring expenses and historic workforce shortages. It is a crisis, they admit, that was brewing before the pandemic, then COVID pushed hospitals to the brink. “It was unexplainable how difficult it was
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Although hospitalizations due to COVID-19 have settled far below previous peaks, the pandemic’s ripple effects on the health care workforce continue to strain capacity at many teaching hospitals. Among the direst shortages is that of nursing staff. For example, at Ochsner Health, which runs 47 hospitals in the Gulf Coast region and is headquartered in New Orleans, a current shortage
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The Listowel Wingham Hospitals Alliance continues to face significant staffing challenges in clinical areas. The board of governors recently discussed the issue, as the alliance is experiencing a veryhigh number of long-term leaves, mostly consisting of maternity leaves. That has resulted in several temporary jobs to fill, but in the current employment environment, those temporary jobs are no longer attractive. The
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Facing nursing shortages, provincial governments are trying to recruit abroad. But these latest efforts have internationally educated nurses already in Canada feeling ignored. Read more..
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If you’ve recently been a patient in a hospital or seen your physician, you most likely experienced the impact of our nationwide nursing shortage. Longer wait times, delayed care and even patient harm can all result from an inadequate number of nurses to meet rising demand. South Carolina already has too few nurses and is expected to be among the
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