Human resource professionals are having issues attracting and retaining top talent these days, particularly impacting those in the healthcare field. In order to see real ROI-driven change when it comes to hiring and retention, healthcare HR leaders need to start thinking and acting more creatively. In this webinar, attendees will learn five practical ways to increase the success of their hiring and retention strategies.

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The Medical Assistant and Medical Billing & Coding IRAPs are now approved and ready for implementation! These apprenticeships combine on-the-job work experience with technical/classroom study designed to enhance useful job skills for individuals entering the profession as well as incumbent workers seeking upskilling opportunities. The first 20 early adopters of an IRAP will be eligible for up to $10,000 in support per location (while grant funding permits).

Physician shortages, poverty and isolation contribute to lack of access to care and poorer outcomes for rural Americans, HHS said. The agency has awarded nearly $11 million to 15 entities to strengthen the healthcare workforce by establishing new residency programs in rural communities.

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” This anonymous quote — which some have attributed to Albert Einstein — sums up one lesson from the pandemic. Looking back 3 1/2 years after the early days of COVID-19, we can better appreciate how the pandemic’s extraordinarily difficult days also created an opportunity to reimagine and rebuild health and health care in our communities, working collaboratively to ensure everyone receives the care they need and deserve.

STAT
In most of the U.S., CHWs don’t work as full colleagues alongside clinical staff, but rather are contracted through nonprofit organizations. There is a movement, however, to solidify the CHW as a critical public health professional, whether employed by a hospital system or not. 

Becker's Hospital Review
School nurses and hospital staff nurses are some of the unhappiest in the field due to understaffing and the pandemic, according to an article writted by Donna Reese, MSN, RN, CSN and published by Nursing Process.

Healthcare Brew
Facilities with low staffing levels, large Medicaid recipient populations, and low quality scores were more likely to get PPP loans.

Becker's Hospital Review
Healthcare workers are significantly more likely to die from fatal drug overdoses than those working outside the field, according to a study published Aug. 7 in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. 

Healthcare Dive
The results suggest that lucrative specialties were less successful at recruiting underrepresented groups in medicine, according to a new JAMA study.

Healthcare Dive
Three years after the onset of COVID-19, primary care providers remain overwhelmed, burned out and pessimistic about the future, according to a new report.

American Hospital Association
In a letter to House and Senate sponsors, the AHA and 48 other national associations voiced strong support for the Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act (H.R. 4942/S. 665), bipartisan legislation that would extend for three years the Conrad State 30 program, which allows states to request J-1 visa waivers for foreign physicians to work in federally designated shortage and underserved areas.