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Crain’s New York Business

New York nursing homes are chronically understaffed, a shortcoming enabled by pandemic-era workforce challenges and recent mandates that have never been enforced.

New York nursing homes have among the worst performance in meeting set nurse-to-patient staffing ratios in the country, with only 20% of providers meeting or exceeding federally recommended levels, according to a new analysis of federal data…

…New York has lower nurse-to-patient ratios than 44 states and territories according to the LTCCC data. Nursing homes have reported certified nurse aides and registered nurses to be among the most difficult to recruit and retain positions, according to a recent survey from the Center for Healthcare Workforce Studies at SUNY Albany. That is primarily due to workforce shortages and non-competitive salaries, the study found.

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Crain’s New York Business

More than half a million home health workers in New York have fueled the state’s post-pandemic economic recovery as a popular Medicaid-funded home care program exploded, a new report shows…

…Growth in the state’s home care workforce has inflated overall job growth in the industry, hiding persisting shortages of other types of clinicians. Hospitals are still struggling to recruit and retain lab technicians, psychiatrists and registered nurses after the pandemic, according to a report by the Center for Health Workforce Studies at SUNY Albany. Experts have chalked up the persistence of health workforce shortages to low pay.

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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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A new report shows shortages continue for a variety of professions across all health care settings which was highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“As the pandemic began to ease, I think people thought, well OK, shortages should ease right, and they haven’t,” said Jean Moore, who leads the Center for Health Workforce Studies.

That was reflected in an annual report compiled by the University at Albany’s CHWS studies from a variety of data sources.

“If you’re a provider trying to understand the workforce, you’re having to go all these different places,” program manager Robert Martiniano said. “So, we want to put all in one place.

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Utica Observer-Dispatch

Health care is the area’s top private employer and that’s not expected to change any time soon. Kandis Harter works as talent acquisition manager for the area’s largest health care employer, the Mohawk Valley Health System. She doesn’t see hiring slowing up any time soon. “I’ll be out of a job if they do,” she quipped. The health system gets lots of applications for every job but struggles sometimes to find enough qualified applicants, she said.

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