PYMNTS.com April 8, 2022
It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that the pandemic has compounded one of the biggest problems facing healthcare in the U.S.: a continued deficit of nurses and other providers that’s leaving hospitals, practices and nursing homes short-staffed — and putting patients at risk of going without care.
Burnout is real, and practitioners are leaving clinical settings en masse. Finding applicants willing to shoulder the increased workload has become such a problem that only 1% of the nation’s nursing homes are operating with a full staff, according to one recent industry survey.
That’s just one telling statistic out of many. Combating them all can mean the difference between life and death in some instances, and it’s giving...