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Health Care in the News
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A coming crisis for those needing personal care
News & Observer - Raleigh, NC, USA, July 31
... money allotted to the NC Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse be spent on improving the direct support work force. ...
Report details Vt. nursing shortage
Brattleboro Reformer - VT, United States, July 30
According to a 2007 study on hospital nursing by the Office of Nursing Workforce Research, Planning and Development at the University of Vermont, ...
New program to train 50 young people for health-care positions
Ashtabula Star-Beacon - Ashtabula, OH, USA, July 30
Healthcare Occupations Training (HOT) Opportunities Program will select 50 young people lacking high school diplomas in four counties who are interested in ...
US Rep. Latham: Authors Bipartisan Solution To End America’s ...
IowaPolitics.com (press release) - IA, USA, July 30
And, due to the great demand for registered nurses, qualified nurses have little incentive to become nurse educators—particularly because the average annual ...
Where have the nurses gone?
The Keene Sentinel - Keene, NH, USA, July 30
Nationwide, the US Department of Health and Human Services has estimated a shortage of a quarter-million nurses and predicts it will reach half a million by ...
Nursing Schools See Interest Grow As Economy Turns Bad
Tampa Tribune - Tampa, FL, USA, July 29
AVON PARK - Nursing student enrollment is up 10 to 15 percent since last year at South Florida Community College. Student Susan Lindsay said Monday that she ...
Nursing shortage not being felt locally
Clovis News Journal - Clovis, NM, USA, July 28
The report indicates a majority of licensed nurses aged 40 years old and younger are leaving the workforce as about 5000 get ready to retire. “(The nursing ...
Program Combating Nursing Shortage
Newswise (press release) - USA, July 28
Their report, published in “Nursing Economic$, The Journal for Health Care Leaders,” and presented in May to the National Press Club in Washington, ...
Study finds shortage of doctors in rural Md.
WTOP - Washington, DC, USA, July 27
Two panels _ the Governor's Task Force on Health Care Access and Reimbursement, and the Task Force to Review Physician Shortages in Rural Areas _ are ...
Positive Precepting: Preparation Can Reduce the Stress
RedOrbit - Dallas, TX, USA, July 27
As student enrollment rapidly increases to develop an adequate health care workforce for tomorrow, nursing programs struggle to find enough faculty. ...
Nursing recruits in high demand
Statesville Record & Landmark - NC, USA, July 27
As baby boomers age and the demand for health care grows, hospitals and healthcare providers across the country are competing for qualified nurses to ...
Help wanted: US has a shortage of trained health workers
Los Angeles Times - CA, USA , July 27
"We call them the hidden healthcare workforce," said Susan Chapman, director of allied healthstudies at the UC San Francisco Center for the Health ...
Family Doctors Scarce in State
RedOrbit - Dallas, TX, USA, July 25
Their ability to care for patients of all ages and to treat a variety of medical conditions often makes family doctors the primary health care providers in ...
TMC program keeps loyal employees by helping their careers
Inside Tucson Business - Tucson, AZ, USA, July 25
Our nurse managers are so pro-student. They really understand the need to have them in the hospital – they really get it," Brooks said. TMC’s workforce ...
Associations Join Forces to Ease Health Care Staffing Crisis
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA, USA, July 25
That’s why members of Congress have called for increases in funding for nurse education. One NHCN member, the Infusion Nurses Society, is a focused health ...
Simply Retail Signs Monroe Clinic & Hospital as 86th Discovery Client
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale, WA, USA, July 25
Located in Monroe, Wisconsin, Monroe Clinic & Hospital is a multi-specialty health care center anchoring the Monroe Clinic health system. ...
Report: Health care workforce not enough for aging boomers
The Capital Times - Madison, WI, USA, July 25
Most of those projected shortages, the report said, are expected to involve workers with specific skills such as health care professionals. ...
A new way to teach nursing
Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls, MT, USA, July 21
Thirteen registered nursing students from programs around the state spend 10 weeks on campus attending the Academy for Advanced Nursing Workforce Solutions, ...
New Report Warns Current Policies Will Not Avert Health Workforce Crisis Coordinated national planning needed to adapt to changing workforce demands and threats
WASHINGTON, July 17
Without immediate action to develop an integrated, comprehensive, national health workforce policy, the U.S. is at risk of losing its status as the global health care leader, states a new report released by the Association of Academic Health Centers (AAHC, www.aahcdc.org). The report was funded in part by the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation. Out of Order, Out of Time: The State of the Nation’s Health Workforce warns that the nation is running out of time to ensure an adequate health workforce to meet the needs of our aging population, such as the increased demand for health services and other critical socioeconomic challenges for health care.
Legislature taps group to explore health coverage for direct-care ...
VillageSoup Belfast - ME, USA, July 16
The bureau has created the Direct-Care Workforce Health Coverage Working Group to help with the task, and it is meeting this summer. ...
Better care, without a mandate
Boston Globe - United States, July 16
The faculty bonus is crucial because colleges find it difficult to hire nursing educators, who can earn significantly more money working in the profession. ...
UW Bothell Nursing Program Works to Alleviate Nursing Shortage
Eastside Business Journal - Bellevue, Washington, USA, July 14
Created in response to growing state needs for a highly educated health care and nursing workforce, the Initiative aims to increase the number of nursing ...
Paramedics fast-track to nursing career
El Paso Times - El Paso, TX, USA, July 13
(Rudy Gutierrez / El Paso Times) The shortage of health-care professionals that's gripped El Paso and the nation has prompted El Paso Community College to ...
Physician shortage will grow in Western Md.
Cumberland Times-News - Cumberland, MD, USA, July 10
It's part of a national trend, but only one of many that are causing health care experts concern. Due to current physician shortages that are expected to ..
Physicians' group apologizes to black doctors
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 10
Besides hurting black doctors, Adams said that hurt health care for blacks. "In the vast majority of the leading causes of death, black folk are still at ...
HealthForce Minnesota programs training minorities for medical field Twin Cities Finance and Commerce
Minneapolis, MN, USA, July 9
The program, aimed at attracting minorities to the state’s health care industry, is financed by HealthForce Minnesota. That organization was created in 2005 ...
CEO: Agnesian plans to focus on the future
Fond du Lac Reporter (WI), July 9
... by Wisconsin Forward, Award, a non-profit organization. Wisconsin Workforce Development Secretary Roberta Gassman announced the winners at the ceremony. Agnesian was one of two organizations ...
Agnesian in spotlight
Fond du Lac Reporter (WI), July 8
... on the path that we are on." Wisconsin Workforce Development Secretary Roberta Gassman will announce the Wisconsin Forward Award winners tonight. The award will be ...
AMA meeting: Physicians demand greater oversight of doctors of nursing
American Medical News (subscription) - USA, July 7
In addition, many nursing schools and other health care professional training programs have incorporated doctorate degrees and used the titles "resident" ..
The Faces of Our Future Health Care Provider
WebWire (press release) - Atlanta, GA, USA, July 3
The goal of increasing diversity among health care students is linked to research showing underserved patients may be better reached by physicians from ...
San Antonio health foundation, Workforce Solutions combat nursing shortage
San Antonio Business Journal, July 2
The Greater San Antonio Healthcare Foundation and Workforce Solutions Alamo are teaming up to launch a new program designed to help reduce the shortage of nursing professionals in the area. Chakib Chehadi, executive director of Workforce Solutions Alamo, says his agency is committing $26,000 to help implement a computerized system that matches students from six local nursing schools with clinical nursing training opportunities at more than 100 area facilities.
Legislators listen to caregiver concerns
Dunn County News - Menomonie, WI, USA, July 2
According to Best, wages lag behind other industries for this segment of employees as well as a lack of health care benefits. In addition, workplace injury ...