Healthcare’s workforce crisis is no longer a temporary disruption. It is becoming a defining structural test for the industry’s next era. Margins remain thin and technology is advancing faster than ...

Headlines present conflicting narratives about the healthcare workforce, with CEOs highlighting it as a top concern while researchers emphasize a rapidly growing healthcare labor supply above ...

A fleet of public transit buses in Seattle. During the pandemic, the city suspended service on half a dozen bus lines because of shortages of different types of workers. A new report from ...

Worker shortages are not a new problem for public employers. Report after report through the last decade told of staffing shortages, most acutely in public health, law enforcement and education. Today ...

The government and providers must invest at an unprecedented level to confront the workforce problems dogging the skilled nursing sector, stressed a speaker at Wednesday’s Sanford Health Summit on the ...

On its face, President Bush's budget underestimates the seriousness of the government's people problems and how difficult it is to make the government work better. The fiscal 2002 budget, released ...

The first of two, one-time state payments are on their way to Minnesota’s nursing homes, but facilities will not be able to use the funds for items that appear on cost reports, such as staff wages and ...

Reducing the workload on caregivers and staff needs to be the priority, says one health system leader. CEOs across the healthcare industry are losing sleep thinking of ways to alleviate workforce ...

Last year the Office of Management and Budget announced a “reset” on how agencies manage their workplaces. Sometimes it’s hard to believe but the civil service system is today virtually unchanged ...

"The number of Americans who can prospectively serve those in long-term care, should they choose this difficult work, will be vastly outnumbered by those needing long-term care." (Photo illustration ...

“Watch out when all the baby boomers all retire at once.” This was the prevailing workforce sentiment during most of my time in Michigan state government. The fear: a massive “brain drain” of ...