Leadership | 03.17.21
Hospitals Will Likely Continue to Have Staffing Shortages Despite Falling COVID-19 Cases
by Healthcare Finance News
Many hospitals may still have staff shortages this month despite recent declines in coronavirus cases nationwide, according to hospitalization estimates from George Washington University's Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity. The Institute recently launched its COVID-19 County Workforce Estimator, which predicted that 7 percent of U.S. counties would experience "significant strains" on their hospital workforces in March due to long-standing staffing problems coupled with the added pressure of COVID-19. It also predicted that 209 counties will need to implement crisis workforce strategies because ICU doctors in those counties will be forced to take care of 24 or more patients at a time. Hospitals in many of these locations have been using non-ICU-trained staff to assist with patient care.
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