Becker's Healthcare December 23, 2024
Laura Dyrda

Healthcare executives are preparing for 2025, a year likely filled with profound challenges and big opportunities.

From workforce shortages to financial pressures, technological advances, and policy uncertainties, 74 health system executives and leaders shared their biggest headwinds heading into next year. The big themes include:

1. Continued staff shortages. Hospitals across the U.S. have seen an uptick in demand for patient care despite continued nurse, physician and staffing shortages. The Association of American Medical Colleges predicts there will be a 61,700 to 94,700 physician shortage next year as demand spikes in several specialties; the American Association of Colleagues of Nursing predicts a shortage of 78,610 full-time RNs next year; and a recent Mercer study predicts a shortage of around 100,000...

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Topics: Health System / Hospital, Provider
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