The hospital employees also got a $500 bonus 6 weeks ago for working during the pandemic, and the upcoming bonus is meant to show extra gratitude.
COVID-19 has hospitalized almost twice as many Americans as at any point in the pandemic, leaving medical providers on the brink of crisis with vaccine doses months away for most people.
Nurses were asked to rate their burnout before the pandemic and 6 months into it, and some reported levels that in some cases have quadrupled.
The Frontline Families Fund is designed to support the families of nearly 1,400 US frontline healthcare workers who have lost their lives to COVID-19.
Even in this year unlike any other, there's still plenty to be thankful for—including some notable developments in healthcare policy.
This webinar looks at aspects of physician wellness and discusses depression, suicide, anxiety, substance use warning signs, and when to ask for professional assistance.
Clinicians across the country are struggling both mentally and financially as the pandemic enters a new phase with record case numbers.
More people than ever are hospitalized with COVID-19, and healthcare workers simply cannot go on like this.
The growing surge of COVID-19 patients is not only filling up available hospital beds, but it is straining the health care workers that are needed to actually treat the patients, to the point of debilitating burnout.
When it comes to employees, looking for trouble is good policy.