Healthcare Workforce Staffing

From Classroom to Clinic: Pre-Clinical Talent Steps Into Healthcare’s Hard-to-Fill Roles

Healthcare systems are facing a workforce crisis that’s no longer temporary—it’s structural. Even before COVID-19, staffing shortages across nursing, technical, and administrative roles were already straining capacity; today, those gaps are wider, costlier, and directly impacting patient access. With labor shortages persisting and burnout rising, health systems are being forced to rethink not just…

Healthcare’s 2026 Reality: Growing Workforce Gaps, Tiered Access, and the Rise of AI Support

Healthcare systems are entering 2026 under mounting pressure. A growing, aging population and rising disease burden are colliding with persistent workforce shortages—highlighted by projections that new cancer diagnoses in the U.S. will surpass two million this year alone. The stakes are no longer theoretical: delays in care, limited specialist access, and widening disparities are…

Fixing the Physician Experience: Why Advocacy Is Healthcare’s Next Frontier

Physician burnout has become a defining challenge in healthcare, with research showing that a substantial portion of clinicians—anywhere from roughly a quarter to over half—experience emotional exhaustion, driven more by systemic pressures like administrative burden and reduced autonomy than by individual resilience alone. As healthcare systems face growing staffing shortages and rising patient demand, the…

Getting SPD Teams to the Table: Why Sterile Processing Deserves a Central Role in Surgical Planning and Operations

Sterile Processing Departments (SPDs) remain the backbone of safe surgical care, yet across the country, they’re still routinely left out of early decision-making around products, construction, staffing, and case planning. As hospitals juggle tighter margins, higher patient acuity, and growing procedural demands, the consequences of excluding SPD voices become unmistakably real—showing up in daily…

Improving Employee Engagement Through CAREmunication — A Conversation with Burl Stamp

With the healthcare landscape seeing many evolving changes, employee engagement is no longer just a buzzword — it’s now a business imperative. Amid rising turnover and persistent staffing shortages, organizations are under pressure to build resilient, engaged teams. According to Gallup, 70% of the variance in team engagement is tied to one factor: the…

How THA Strengthens Texas Healthcare Through Policy, Workforce Solutions, and Community Collaboration

As healthcare continues to evolve in response to post-pandemic challenges, workforce shortages, and an ongoing mental health crisis, the institutions that support the backbone of healthcare—hospitals—are under immense pressure. In Texas, where geographic and demographic diversity create unique complexities, the role of hospital associations in steering policy and support services is more vital than…

The Nursing Workplace: Staffing, Shortage, and Safety

In this episode of Care Anywhere: The Global Health Workforce Podcast, host Lea Sims welcomes Syl Trepanier, DNP, RN, Chief Nursing Officer for Providence Health and member of the TruMerit Board of Trustees. With responsibility for representing more than 36,000 nurses across a multi-state health system, Syl shares his personal journey from caregiving as…

Omnicell Deploys Healthcare Automation to Ease Staff Strain and Elevate Patient Care

Hospitals are facing a deepening staffing crisis that threatens care delivery. More than 540,000 healthcare workers exited the field between February 2020 and September 2021, and hospital employment declined by nearly 94,000 during the same period. Projections indicate that over 6.5 million healthcare professionals could leave the workforce by 2026, creating a net shortfall…

Solving America’s Physician Shortage Through Apprenticeship Programs, Online Training & Hands-On Experience

Alternative pathways to medical training are emerging as healthcare systems race to close a critical workforce gap before 2036

Market-Based Planning, Specialization and Technology To Shape Healthcare Provider Networks for Tomorrow

Health systems must strategically realign their provider networks to balance community demand with financial viability amid a looming physician shortage

Personalized Solutions Through Data Are the Future of Aligning Healthcare Staff Needs with Patient Outcomes

Healthcare systems are discovering that targeted workforce data can simultaneously ease staffing pressures and strengthen patient care outcomes

MedCurate’s Transparent Marketplace is Tackling the Healthcare Staffing Crisis, Backed by Mentorship

A marketplace model is reshaping how hospitals fill staffing gaps while giving clinicians fairer compensation

Care Anywhere: The Journey Begins

A healthcare credentialing leader launches a podcast series to tackle the global workforce shortage crisis reshaping the industry

Advancing Workforce Development and Health Equity: HIMS 2024 with Geoffrey Roche

Healthcare leaders are discovering that solving workforce shortages is essential to closing health equity gaps across vulnerable populations

Healthcare Orgs Can Secure Their Health Data with Workforce & Regulatory Enhancements

Healthcare leaders must address staffing gaps and regulatory frameworks to combat escalating cyber threats to patient data

Discussing the Void in the Nursing Community

More than 100,000 nurses have left the workforce in two years, and the exodus is accelerating as healthcare systems struggle to retain talent