Health Care Workforce

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Crain’s New York Business

The health care worker shortage that gained steam during the pandemic has continued relentlessly, driven by low pay, despite the state pouring billions into health workforce development in recent years.

The pandemic decimated the supply of nurses, social workers and other clinicians as workers left the epicenter in New York for more competitive salaries and less demanding roles in other fields or in other states. While the public health crisis has subsided, poor wages have persisted in many of those roles, making them notoriously hard to fill and keep, according to a new report from the Center for Health Workforce Studies at SUNY Albany.

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Globe Newswire

SYRACUSE, N.Y., Sept. 09, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The College of Professional Studies at Syracuse University and MedCerts proudly announce a new partnership focused on delivering innovative, accessible learning opportunities.  Together, they will introduce specialized programs in the healthcare and information technology spaces tailored to meet the demands of today’s workforce.

According to the Center for Health Workforce Studies, Syracuse, like many regions, is experiencing significant challenges in maintaining an adequate healthcare workforce. With this in mind, MedCerts and the College of Professional Studies have come together to introduce novel and specialized programs in the healthcare and information technology spaces – tailored specifically to meet the demands of today’s workforce. These new programs, which include MedCerts’ Healthcare IT Technician, Electronic Health Records Specialist and Medical Billing Specialist certification training programs, are precisely designed to equip individuals who have a high school diploma with the skills needed to secure stable and well compensated jobs in these in-demand fields.

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City & State

In New York, and across the country, it is undeniably true that our health care workforce is on the front lines of forging health equity. While this has always been the case, it became especially evident during the COVID-19 pandemic when the energy and support for nurses flourished at an incredibly challenging time. Though the pandemic has waned and many of us have returned to regular working conditions, the pressures on nurses, individually and collectively, persists. According to 2023 re-registration surveys in New York, 15% of hospital patient care RNs between the ages of 20 and 39 reported plans to leave their current position within the next 12 months – nearly the same percentage as nurses ages 60 and up who are planning to soon retire.

Nurses have always been the backbone of our health care system, serving as the first point of interaction with patients and advocating for them as key intermediaries with physicians. To ensure we have a sustained, skilled and diverse workforce for years to come, the private and public sectors must partner on short- and long-term investments in both the recruitment and retention of nurses.

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Montana State University

An article written by health workforce leaders and published today in the New England Journal of Medicine calls for health care delivery organizations, educators and government leaders to “cut through bureaucratic barriers and adapt regulations to rapidly expand the U.S. health care workforce and sustain it” for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The article was written by eight leaders of public and private research centers who interact with and study the U.S. health workforce, including Peter Buerhaus, director of the Montana State University Center for Interdisciplinary Health Workforce Studies and professor in the MSU College of Nursing. Additional authors are Erin P. Fraher, Patricia Pittman, Bianca K. Frogner, Joanne Spetz, Jean Moore, Angela J. Beck and David Armstrong

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