Workforce
The American Hospital Association offers these resources for addressing health care workforce issues for leaders of hospitals and health systems.
As part of efforts to recruit and retain a qualified, dedicated and diverse workforce, hospitals and health systems must create environments that consistently support meaningful work and nurture relationship-building with colleagues, patients and families.
Responding today to a Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee Request for Information on the drivers of health care workforce shortages and potential solutions, AHA said “long-building structural changes within the health care workforce, combined with the profound toll of the COVID…
AHA responds to the RFI on the drivers of health care workforce shortages and solutions.
AHA Chief Physician Executive Chris DeRienzo, M.D., this morning joined a panel of health care and technology leaders for an Amazon Web Services-led discussion on how technology and innovation can offer solutions to help train, retain and deploy the nation’s health care workforce.
n this webinar, learn how Penn State built a sustainable workforce plan to improve patient care through extreme challenges and fluctuations in the market. They’ll share the importance of using real-time data for informed critical decision-making processes and how technology can ensure the right…
Hospitals and health systems added 19,400 jobs in February, while U.S. jobs overall increased by 311,000, according to data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Total health care jobs grew by over 44,200 to a seasonally adjusted 16.7 million, including 13,700 new jobs in nursing and…
Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Susan Collins, R-Maine, Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., today reintroduced the Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act.
Contract labor expenses for hospitals and health systems surged 258% from 2019 to 2022 as nationwide labor shortages forced many to rely on contract staffing firms to meet patient demand, according to an analysis of 2022 data from over 1,000 hospitals and health systems by AHA and Syntellis.
The Federal Trade Commission yesterday extended until April 19 the comment deadline for its proposal to ban contractual terms that prohibit workers from pursuing certain employment after their contract with an employer ends.
AHA’s American Organization for Nursing Leadership affiliate today released the last section in its three-part compendium of best practices to manage nursing workforce complexities.