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Dear ASHHRA Colleagues,
The fall season has arrived, and the months are flying by. When the Labor Day holiday comes, it signals the start of the holiday season. The ASHHRA Board hosted their inaugural meeting under MCI USA last month. It was wonderful to see everyone virtually, but I hope to meet everyone in person soon. The delta variant has thrown a curve ball at us from a planning perspective, but we look forward to showing you what we have in store for 2022.
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Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021 | 1:00 p.m. CT (2:00 p.m. ET)
Free for ASHHRA members!
Employers can have correct policies, rules and practices, but if they fail to properly document, they could find themselves in a tough spot if an employee sues for discrimination or under another employment statute. During this webinar, you will explore the importance of documentation with reference to employment issues and provide best practices guidance to HR professionals in the health care setting with presenter Stephanie Rawitt.
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The SHRM21 Annual Conference and Exposition will be in Las Vegas, Sept. 9 to 11, at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Stop by the ASHHRA booth (#5031) for your free ASHHRA gear! Not attending? Tell your colleagues who stop by and they can get you some great swag, too!
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This Workplace Trends Report provides employer data about the impact of the pandemic on six different types of pandemic-related workplace practices including testing and contact tracing, vaccination, employee wellbeing, pandemic response and preparedness, financial impact and the future of work.
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Healthcare Finance
The American Nurses Association sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services this week asking the agency to declare the ongoing nursing shortage a national crisis, citing overwhelmed health systems and burnt out staff. Specifically, the ANA cited the Delta variant of COVID-19 as a complicating factor that has exacerbated underlying chronic nursing workforce shortage challenges.
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HR Daily Advisor
Hiring is both an exciting and a laborious process. But at the end of the day, hiring someone can also be incredibly time-consuming. A third of recruiters spend over 20 hours a week on sourcing new job candidates—half of an average workweek. Here are four hacks to reduce your hiring time so you can spend less time on LinkedIn and more time serving your customer base.
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Healthcare Dive
Nurse burnout remains largely unchecked more than a year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic, with nurses increasingly reporting they want to leave bedside nursing or the profession entirely, according to a new report from staffing firm Aya Healthcare.
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Becker's Hospital Review
Amazon has plans to bring in-person healthcare to 20 major cities by the end of 2022, through Amazon Care, the e-commerce giant's health care venture that offers telemedicine and in-person primary care. Initially available to Amazon's Seattle employees, the company has expanded it to all employees in Washington state and announced plans to expand to other employers across the country.
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HealthLeaders Media
The health care sector shed 4,900 jobs in August, with slight gains by hospitals more than offset by job losses in ambulatory care and nursing homes, preliminary federal data show.
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Chief Healthcare Executive
Findings of a new report highlight 40% of hospitals accelerated hiring to meet the increased demand in medical services following COVID-19 lockdowns. Aon plc’s 16th annual Benefits Survey of Hospitals revealed 36% of hospitals surveyed plan for normal hiring and 24% are being cautious by delaying or issuing a hiring freeze. The survey findings strongly differentiate from 2020 when hospitals took measures to cut costs during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.
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Fierce Healthcare
Health care data breaches are not only on the rise, but they are also spreading from hospitals to smaller provider facilities. Health care breaches have nearly doubled since 2018 and continued to climb through the first half of 2021, according to a report by Critical Insight, a Seattle-based healthcare-focused cybersecurity firm.
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American Hospital Association
At the urging of the AHA, the State Department said that because of the emergence of the COVID-19 delta variant and continued demand for health care professionals, U.S. embassies and consulates were instructed that they may prioritize “as emergencies on a case-by-case basis the immigrant visa cases of certain health care professionals who will work at a facility engaged in pandemic response.”
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STAT News
Although human brains are hardwired to make snap judgments, we can still deconstruct the stereotypes that conflate impairment with overt dysfunction and suffering. This is one of many important tenets of the global social movement that had inspired the ADA and that continues today. Unfortunately, the medical community has lagged behind.
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HealthAffairs
Shift work and long work hours (for example, 12-hour shifts) increase employees’ risks of chronic illness, and this ultimately contributes to sizeable excess health care spending for companies. However, relatively little emphasis has been placed on mitigating the long-term chronic health effects of shift work.
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