Staffing

National unemployment rate hovers at 3.5% to 3.7% since March, according to latest government figures.

65% say they are already living paycheck-to-paycheck

CMS publishes memo to reinforce safety standards for physicians, support staff, and patients.

Collaboration can add to professional fulfillment in family medicine, mental health.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality publishes state of the industry report.

Maximize licensure use at every level to avoid burnout.

‘Devastating effects’ showing up in primary care, according to latest findings by The Physicians Foundation.

Staff, productivity, revenue: An interesting correlation.

Responding to market forces by being dynamic and flexible with staff pay.

Medical practices must go beyond simply offering competitive salaries and benefits packages to attract new talent and keep their best clinicians and administrative staff working for them.

Physicians must lead a team effort to generate support at every level of the organization.

Offensive remarks, threats of violence come from coworkers and patients alike

Feds to revise questions about COVID-19 effects on jobless rate and will ask about telework.

Programs will add community health workers, nurses in primary care, other specialties, and public health.

International study examines intertwined effects as problem approaches global crisis.

Analyst uses hyperlocal data to understand current and forecasted physician shortages.

Family physicians were among those most at risk for increased burnout in pandemic.

Sector had 16.45 million jobs last month, according to federal figures.

“Relatively recession-proof” sector tanked in spring 2020, but not as badly as overall economy, report says.

Physicians found to prescribe less pain medication during the night than the day

Seven priority areas emerge from process that began before COVID-19 pandemic.

Sector had 16.26 million workers in May, topping levels from month before and from May 2021.

Family medicine, internists, pediatricians used in 21% of facilities across nation.

Study estimates 12.8 million doctors worldwide, and more are needed.

Medical staff, pushed past their breaking point, say something has to change.