The workforce shortage in healthcare, and specifically, hospitals today, is a burning issue on the minds of many healthcare leaders. Currently, many people are not entering into a career in healthcare or are leaving the healthcare industry. The most frequently cited reasons people give for ...
While healthcare providers have stabilized post-pandemic, they face shrinking revenues coupled with escalating workforce expense, which now comprise a significant portion of total expenses. This financial strain, combined with a projected shortage of hundreds of thousands of care providers, necessitates ...
Healthcare worker shortages are one of the biggest challenges hospitals and health systems face today. The decades-long nursing shortage crisis in the U.S. is expected to reach 1.13 million by 2024. Those numbers are projected to exponentially grow due to an aging population and a tsunami of ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) deployed surge teams around the world as needed to respond to new COVID-19 variants, as it did in South Africa to help fight the omicron variant.7 The shortage is likely to increase due to supply-side constraints and evolving demand. More...
Researchers have predicted a shortage of more than 500 000 nurses and more than 139 000 physicians by 2030.4,5 The number of health care professionals needed in various disciplines in the future will depend on the dominant delivery system in place. Compared with care delivered by small ...
Healthcare Staffing Shortages In 2022, the health care workforce shortage will probably continue its spiral, and health care providers will be faced with more challenges than ever before. It is currently estimated that by 2030 there will be a global shortfall of more than 10 million nurs...
pandemic. The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) estimated in 2019 a shortage of up to 121,900 physicians by 2032. Two years later, that number jumped to up to124,000 physicians by 2034, with primary care slated to see a shortage of 17,800 to 48,000 physicians during...
“With our intelligent work-life management solutions, which enable fair and flexible shift planning with maximum say for the employees, we want to sustainably improve the personnel shortage and working conditions for employees in the healthcare industry,” said Markus Hinz, Planerio’s chief execu...
BMC Nursing welcomed submissions for our Collection on Nursing Workforce Shortage. This Collection explored the underlying factors that led to the current situation; the impact of the shortage on patients, nurses, and healthcare systems; and the possible interventions and their assessment. This Collecti...
So, we knew it was really important that we pay attention to this, focus on this and get people using these tools in the right way. One of the other things that really drove [this] is we have a staffing shortage in healthcare that is expected to persist for at least another decade...