Category: Return to the Workforce

Having accurate data on the health workforce is essential to direct policy and can help produce better results for health care providers and their patients.

Retired healthcare workers, most of whom were 65 years and older, had a variety of motivations for risking their lives during the pandemic.

Hospitals are seeing job growth for the fourth month since March.

Some of the healthcare sectors initially hit hardest by the pandemic have posted gains every month since April, and appear to be inching closer to their pre-pandemic levels.

As longtime practicing physicians and specialists are closing their offices, experts say this will probably lead to major shortages of doctors and nurses in the future.

Hospitals continue to add more jobs after several major subsystems furloughed and laid off workers at the onset of the pandemic in March.

Many U.S. hospitals and health systems have furloughed staff to help offset revenue losses from the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, some are starting to bring furloughed workers back as they resume nonemergency procedures and medical appointments.

Healthcare added 358,000 jobs in June, with hospitals seeing their first modest gain since March.