August 18th 2025
A bipartisan proposal could bring needed relief for immigrant workers and physicians.
August 11th 2025
Kaufman Hall reports indicate trends among doctors, support staff, and hospitals.
August 8th 2025
Medical practices face staffing shortages and rising costs, prompting innovative strategies to manage health insurance and improve employee wellness effectively.
July 29th 2025
New data shows med students still see primary care as less prestigious — and less lucrative.
July 2nd 2025
The national nursing shortage is not just a problem for hospitals. Here’s how doctors can find and keep good nurses.
Integrated care could improve outcomes for patients while reducing burnout for physicians
Collaboration can add to professional fulfillment in family medicine, mental health.
U.S. health care a ‘very mixed picture’ with challenges for primary care, staffing
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality publishes state of the industry report.
How staff levels affect office burnout
Maximize licensure use at every level to avoid burnout.
Morale deteriorates in medical profession as doctors deal with staffing challenges, administrative burdens
‘Devastating effects’ showing up in primary care, according to latest findings by The Physicians Foundation.
When staffing affects physician office productivity
Staff, productivity, revenue: An interesting correlation.
Quick to the middle
Responding to market forces by being dynamic and flexible with staff pay.
Best practices for recruiting talented staff for your practice
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.
Six strategies to mitigate provider burnout
Physicians must lead a team effort to generate support at every level of the organization.
Mistreatment of physicians with disabilities is widespread, study finds
Offensive remarks, threats of violence come from coworkers and patients alike
Health care leads job growth for September as national unemployment rate drops to 3.5%
Feds to revise questions about COVID-19 effects on jobless rate and will ask about telework.
Feds announce $346M to address worker shortages in health care
Programs will add community health workers, nurses in primary care, other specialties, and public health.
Patients, careers suffer when burnout builds up for physicians
International study examines intertwined effects as problem approaches global crisis.
Supply, demand out of balance for primary care, behavioral health in cities across U.S.
Analyst uses hyperlocal data to understand current and forecasted physician shortages.
COVID-19 had ‘profound’ effect as physician burnout rose in 2021
Family physicians were among those most at risk for increased burnout in pandemic.
Health care employment grows, but national jobless rate creeps up in August
Sector had 16.45 million jobs last month, according to federal figures.
Health care jobs rebounding, but COVID-19 effects will linger for years
“Relatively recession-proof” sector tanked in spring 2020, but not as badly as overall economy, report says.
Night shift work reduces doctors’ empathy for pain: study
Physicians found to prescribe less pain medication during the night than the day
National Academy of Medicine readies health workforce well-being plan
Seven priority areas emerge from process that began before COVID-19 pandemic.
Health care employment rising, but still lower than pre-pandemic levels
Sector had 16.26 million workers in May, topping levels from month before and from May 2021.
Primary care physicians rank high on list of most used locum tenens staff
Family medicine, internists, pediatricians used in 21% of facilities across nation.
Across globe, 6.4 million physicians needed in 132 countries facing shortages
Study estimates 12.8 million doctors worldwide, and more are needed.
Health worker burnout must be top national priority, surgeon general says
Medical staff, pushed past their breaking point, say something has to change.
7 ways to keep a promising new hire at your practice
After a rigorous recruiting process, here's how to ensure a long stay from that prized new employee.
Workers leaving, expenses for labor, drugs, supplies rising in hospitals
Expenses per patient increase, even accounting for COVID-19 pandemic, AHA says.
The crisis in healthcare staffing
COVID-19 didn’t create the healthcare staffing shortage, but the impact is worsened because of it.
Short on staff? Efficiency—not hiring—may be the best answer