Nursing homes are facing increasingly severe financial disruption, with revenue per patient day down more than 14% from pre-Covid levels as of 2021. That’s according to analysts at Marcum LLP, a national accounting and advisory services firm, which on Tuesday released its 2023 annual nursing home statistical analysis. In addition to painting a picture of financial challenges, the report was
Continue reading 
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.
Continue reading 
America’s persistent nursing shortage reached a dramatic new inflection point earlier this year when 7,000 New York City nurses went on strike, alleging that their hospitals are so short staffed they’re unsafe. New York’s strike comes on the heels of 714 strikes or labor actions from healthcare personnel over the past two years, many centered around inadequate staffing and pay. In a 2022 survey,
Continue reading
Nearly 350 already trained health-care workers from the Philippines have been offered letters of intentafter a recruitment mission to the country last month, the Manitobahealth minister says. Audrey Gordon said the letters were given to nearly 190 registered nurses, 50 people who are the equivalent of licensed practical nurses and 110 health-care aides during the province’s five-day trip to Manila,
Continue reading 
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
Continue reading 
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
Continue reading 
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..
Continue reading 
We don’t really know how many health-care workers we have across the country. We have 13 completely different health-care systems, and we don’t have very effective health workforce data to understand trends like inflows and outflows. This raises many questions. Are we training enough medical professionals? Are we making the job attractive enough to retain the ones we have trained?
Continue reading 
“We talked about nursing shortages and how important it is to have trained individuals all throughout the spectrum. I’m really proud of the work they’re doing here in Princeton.” Capito said. One way this shortage is already being addressed is the new nursing program at Concord University, which has been funded in part with federal dollars due to Capito and
Continue reading 
Mila, who has cerebral palsy, still required the care of a home nurse, as she recovered last fall from having a tracheotomy — a surgical opening in the throat to help her breath. But there were no home nurses available. So, due to staffing shortages and cracks in the health care system — but not due to medical need —
Continue reading