Category: COVID-19 for the Workforce

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.

Fake emails from bosses, messages about COVID, PPE, vaccines: "Doctors have fallen for it multiple times."

As COVID-19 surges in the U.S., nursing students are still being encouraged to join the front lines, though some program leaders aren't going along.

The benefits of telemedicine reveal themselves as doctors and patients are forced to new forms of appointments.

As the pandemic rages on, meeting patients where they are has never been more important.

A study conducted in Minnesota reveals one third of COVID-19 exposures among health care providers are due to family or community exposure, not patient care.

Hospitalizations have increased nearly 25% since the beginning of this month, and daily caseloads have hit record levels in numerous states.

There is an opportunity to use the pandemic as a spark for positive change – to sustain and accelerate the digital advances made to engage patients.

When it comes to employees, looking for trouble is good policy.