ASHHRA eNews Pulse
ASHHRA eNews Pulse: January 2022
 
California State University Northridge

Message from the President
Dear ASHHRA Colleagues,
 
New Year's greetings! Just as we thought we were nearing the end of the COVID pandemic, omicron appeared. This variant has been difficult to manage, as hospitals are at critical capacity and have limited staffing, making it difficult to provide consistent care. As usual, HR comes to the rescue. We continue to see how we can be effective partners to our leadership teams and a guiding light in assisting our employees as we collaborate. The goal for this year is to raise mental awareness and unity. The goal is not to give up in the face of adversity and to try to adapt to the needs of your team. There is always light at the end of the tunnel in every situation.
 
TIAA
The HR Metrics Tool is a joint collaboration between ASHHRA and PwC, to benchmark critical workforce measures. This tool can help you gain a better understanding of your HR function, consistently measure metrics against your peers in the healthcare industry, and access personalized reports.
New this year: Simplified pricing structure.
 
Share your professional healthcare HR knowledge with your peers by presenting a webinar. Build your portfolio of presenter events and earn continuing education credits for your CHHR, SHRM and HRCI certifications. Please complete the Webinar Topic Submission Form if you would like to be considered to present an interactive webinar.
 

ASHHRA News
ASHHRA and Dallas College are seeking healthcare systems and sites that will use the IRAP model to onboard, train and retain employees. IRAPs have been validated by industry experts, are recognized and evaluated by a third party, are low cost, and have high return on investment. We have an open call process for employers who meet requirements to participate on the project for as long as grant funds are available.
 
ASHHRA22 is headed to sunny PHOENIX, ARIZONA from Sunday, April 24 to Wednesday, April 27, 2022. Join us for the premier event for healthcare HR professionals across the continuum of care, delivering dynamic keynote speakers, innovative breakout sessions, engaging networking activities and a variety of opportunities for healthcare HR professionals to connect. Mark your calendars now!
 
Omaha Steaks
HealthLeaders Media
Over the course of 2021, the healthcare sector gained 143,800 jobs, but is still down 449,500 jobs since pre-pandemic levels in February 2020. Since February 2020, the ambulatory sector gained 66,800 jobs, while hospitals lost 95,600 jobs, and nursing and residential care facilities lost 420,700 jobs.
 
Healthcare Dive
Information security analyst took the top spot in the annual list, followed by nurse practitioner, physician assistant, medical and health services manager and software developer.
 
Industry News
Society for Human Resource Management
Headlines have chronicled the devastating impact of COVID-19 on healthcare workers. Healthcare HR staffs, too, were stretched to the max, coping with low staff morale, salary complaints, resignations, enforcing mask and vaccination mandates, policy changes, hiring more cleaning staff, and supply chain shortages. Many HR departments were not equipped with the skills to handle nursing strikes.
 
Becker's Hospital Review
Healthcare workers left the proverbial loading platform in 2020 for a ride of COVID-19 surges that only get tougher, not easier, to stomach. 
 
American Hospital Association
The National Academy of Medicine has launched Resource Compendium for Health Care Worker Well-Being, which highlights tools that are ready to be deployed and strategies to address systems issues related to health care workers’ burnout. The compendium, which is a product of the Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience organizes resources into six essential elements.
 
   
American Medical Technologists
      
Workhuman
      
Omaha Steaks
   
Chief Healthcare Executive
Senior care organizations are facing unprecedented staffing challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Leaders in the industry are desperately worried about finding new staff and keeping the quality people they have, said Ray Desrochers, president and chief operating officer of OnShift, an Ohio company that develops HR software for senior care companies.
 
Healthcare Finance
The Great Resignation hit the healthcare sector hard in November, and the numbers are colliding now with a steep rise in the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations. Workers are reportedly leaving for better paying jobs that expose them less to COVID-19, such as positions that allow them to work from home. Demand for workers is allowing for increased mobility in the labor market.
 
HR Dive
As the global workforce increasingly adopts hybrid or remote work models, automation may play an increasingly large role in human resources.
 
HealthLeaders Media
Nurses at California's Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian are finding stress management through virtual reality (VR). Among the 70 nurses who have used the program to date, stress levels decreased, on average, by a reported 34%.
 
STAT
While medicine as a whole — and even elite specialties like dermatology, thoracic surgery, and otolaryngology — has begun to increase the number of people of color in its ranks, orthopedics’ numbers have barely budged. Less than 2% of those practicing in the field are Black, just 2.2% are Hispanic, and 0.4% are Native American. Even Asian American physicians are much scarcer in orthopedics, making up just 6.7% of these specialists.
 
 

 

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