HealthIT Answers July 31, 2022
Healthcare has never quite operated the way other industries do. Take staffing, for example. Other industries have experienced declines in numbers of employees as new efficiencies and technologies have reduced the need for manual labor and shifted work to other areas or different tasks. Healthcare, by comparison, routinely sees increasing staffing levels and rising costs. And staffing constitutes a massive proportion of any healthcare facility’s annual expenditure.
A closer look at the average health system workforce raises intriguing questions. It’s estimated that physicians account for 5% of the healthcare workforce, and nurses about 10%. Who makes up the remaining 85%?
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