Physicians Practice April 16, 2024
Understand the various contributing factors of the shortages so you can make the adjustments needed to alleviate the problem.
The impacts of the pandemic over the last four years, and the lingering effects, continue to contribute to health care worker shortages. Moreover, these challenges are expected to continue for the foreseeable future. McKinsey predicts the shortage of nurses, for example, to reach a “dire” level as early as 2025, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the U.S. will need more than 203,000 new nurses every year until 2026 to fill the current shortage.
The shortage is not just of nurses. We have been seeing shortages across various types of health care workers: nurses, certainly, but also physicians and...