'Health care administrators were ill-prepared to deal with a lack of full-time staff and have yet to find a solution, even though we are three years removed from the pandemic’s onset.' American health care faces a staffing crisis and it's affecting care:
Overflow patients from the ER fill out a tent as a nurse calls for the name of a patient at the Saint Agnes Medical Center in Fresno, California, on May 9, 2023. Chief Medical Officer for Madera County, says that a lot of the trauma cases from Madera now have to receive treatment at a hospital in Fresno."I've never seen the ER that busy. It is unbelievable there," said Dr.
Yash Shah is a medical student with an interest in healthcare policy and management at Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University; Dr. Glatter is Editor at Large for Medscape Emergency Medicine and Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell;of Rochester Medical Center and Professor of Medicine at Mercer University School of Medicine.
Frequently, existing long-term employees feel undervalued in relation to these temporary workers and some resign to join the rapidly expanding pool of locums healthcare workers while others seek out early retirement.has greatly affected the bottom line of healthcare facilities, with many of the country’s leading hospital centers posting massive losses.
This staffing crisis is leading to ongoing delays related to boarding in emergency departments, prolonged admission to hospitals, and delayed elective and emergent surgeries. Each of these contributes to adverse outcomes, morbidity, and mortality. Accordingly, quality of care is affected. Over the last few years, there has been a rise in medical errors.
and the pandemic has only worsened provider well-being via increased time at work and emotional stress.Health care administrators were ill-prepared to deal with a lack of full-time staff and have yet to find a solution, even though we are three years removed from the pandemic’s onset. Each spring, new graduates from professional programs typically join hospitals.
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