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Kansas mental health facilities strained by workforce shortages
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) -As the demand for mental health resources grew during the COVID-19 pandemic, providers are facing stressful situations as they try to meet the needs of a rising number of patients while dealing with workforce shortages. Last week, Robyn Chadwick, President of Ascension Via Christi St. Joseph detailed to Kansas lawmakers what the …
A Hybrid, Technology-Driven Approach to Overcome Coding and RCM Staff Shortages
Cheryl Cruver, Chief Revenue Officer, AGS Health Exacerbated by pandemic-induced burnout, resignations, and even terminations1, chronic coding and revenue cycle management (RCM) staffing shortages have healthcare organizations struggling to find ways to keep revenue flowing despite a lack of qualified professionals to handle critical processes. It is a situation that has been brewing for years, …
Survey: Doctor Shortages Lead To Health Care Delays In Hawaii
Many people in Hawaii suffer from food insecurity and delays in health care access largely due to pandemic-induced financial woes, according to a survey released Tuesday. Nearly six in 10 respondents, or 58%, said they had experienced health care delays in the past year, with 21% characterizing the wait time as “significant.” The survey showed …
Westmoreland health care providers, employees combat staffing shortages from pandemic
The local health care industry had its challenges before a pandemic swept around the world two years ago. As summer 2022 approaches, human resources directors and department managers are finding it even more difficult to find the people who can provide basic services. It’s especially tough for small facilities such as the Sisters of Charity …
Health experts blame rapid expansion for vaccine shortages
Public health experts Thursday blamed COVID-19 vaccine shortages around the U.S. in part on the Trump administration’s push to get states to vastly expand their vaccination drives to reach the nation’s estimated 54 million people age 65 and over. The push that began over a week ago has not been accompanied by enough doses to …
Hospitals thought they’d see Covid-19 vaccine shortages. Sometimes, they have to throw away doses
“Covid” is written on a casket containing a deceased person who died from the coronavirus. The coffins stand in the crematorium’s worship room before cremation in Saxony, Meissen, Germany, on January 8. Robert Michael/picture alliance/Getty Images More than 40,000 people have died from symptoms related to the novel coronavirus in Germany, according to data from …
Leading Technology Platform Provides Healthcare Agency Solution for Long-Term Care and Retirement Homes to Tackle Staffing Shortages
TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–BookJane, a technology platform that helps long-term care and retirement homes find, schedule and communicate with staff, is providing a new way to solve acute healthcare staffing shortages. The company’s first-of-its-kind Agency solution connects healthcare staffing agencies directly with a marketplace of 700+ senior care facilities across the country who are urgently looking for …
Trump says US will be able to run 5 million coronavirus tests per day ‘very soon,’ despite shortages across states
President Donald Trump said Tuesday the U.S. will “very soon” run 5 million coronavirus tests per day, even as the lack of testing remains an obstacle for many states anxious to reopen for business. “We’ll increase it, and it’ll increase it by much more than that in the very near future,” Trump said when a …
Virus triggers unrest across Africa: Riots break out in Johannesburg over food shortages
Unrest has spread across Africa, with riots over food shortages and an army being deployed to ‘restore order’ as the coronavirus crisis rocks the continent. Protests have erupted in Cape Town, the military have been mobilised in Lesotho and the chief of staff to the Nigerian government died of the lethal bug. Africa now has more than …
New York nurses union to sue state health department, hospitals over equipment shortages
Nurses don personal protective equipment before entering a patient’s room suspected of having the coronavirus. | Win McNamee/Getty Images By AMANDA EISENBERG 04/15/2020 04:49 PM EDT Updated 04/15/2020 06:07 PM EDT 2020-04-15T06:07-0400 NEW YORK — The New York State Nurses Association plans to file three lawsuits on Monday over a lack of personal protective equipment …
