Soaring wages across the economy force health-care facilities to compete with the likes of Walmart
People line up for a COVID-19 test at a hospital in the Bronx borough of New York City, New York, US on January 3 2022. Picture: REUTERS/CARLO ALLEGRI
“This is the most significant labour shortage that we have ever seen,” said Sally Zuel, vice-president of human resources at Union Health in Terre Haute, Indiana. Long before the arrival of Covid-19, doctors and nurses were in high demand. The pandemic has only made that shortage worse as some health-care workers, depleted by two years fighting Covid-19, opt for early retirement.
Some relief arrived in uniform in December: the state sent a couple of medics and other support staff from the National Guard. They mostly work in the emergency department, where every morning patients wait for hospital beds to open. Others work in nutrition. Troy Bruntz runs Community Hospital, a 25-bed critical access facility in McCook, Nebraska. He’s been trying to recruit a third ultrasound technician for at least six months without getting a single application.
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