Forbes December 20, 2019
Nearly a decade ago, the Affordable Care Act focused the country’s attention squarely on health. From who has access to how we will pay for it to what tech’s role is in the evolution, questions about how to tackle our nation’s healthcare quandary are being discussed around dinner tables, in boardrooms and on the political stage.
As these conversations continue, we must also consider healthcare professionals, without whom there would be no care.
That is the future we are facing. By 2024, the nation will have 1 million fewer nurses than required to provide adequate care to our communities. We’ve understood this to be a threat to public safety for some time. In fact, as far back as 2002, the...