Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) filed the Lorna Breen Reauthorization Act as an amendment to the Senate’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Thursday, July 11. The amendment filed (S.Amdt.2315) to the Senate NDAA bill S. 4638 aims to reauthorize and enhance the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act by expanding best practices to prevent…
The healthcare sector faces a pressing issue: a significant shortage of nurses. Nurses are essential to the American healthcare system, yet their numbers have not kept pace with the growth in patient demand. A new report from Incredible Health surveying 1,500 hospitals underscores just that, emphasizing the problems and avenues for practical solutions within our…
Longstanding caps on green cards for foreign-educated nurses are limiting one potential fix for America’s stark shortage of health care workers… To read the full article from Axios, click here.
Thank you for writing this essay on the trauma and burnout that are all too common among today’s health care workforce. I applaud you for underscoring the importance of trauma-informed organizations and the critical value of workplaces that are safe, supportive, and flexible. As a nurse educator and researcher, I have come to understand the…
The government paused its processing of new visa applications until fiscal 2025, leaving thousands of international nurses in limbo as they look to fill health systems’ pervasive staffing gaps.
International workers’ high demand for employment-based immigrant visas has led the State Department to effectively cut off the flow of green cards for skilled workers, including nurses, for the remainder of the fiscal year. In its Visa Bulletin for July 2024, the department wrote that “it has become necessary” to retrogress its final action date for…
The Healthcare Workforce Coalition renewed its advocacy push to increase the number of immigrant nurses entering the US, calling on both chambers of Congress Friday to pass the Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act… To read the full article in McKnight’s Long-Term Care News, click here.
America’s healthcare system faces an urgent challenge: Our workforce is at the breaking point. We simply don’t have enough physicians, nurses, and healthcare technicians to meet the needs of patients. And with our nation’s aging population and rising demand for healthcare services, the problem will only grow worse if we don’t start addressing it immediately……
With over 102 million Americans living in a federally designated Health Professional Shortage Area, it is critical for the U.S. to bolster the nursing workforce with highly educated and qualified professionals Washington, DC – The Healthcare Workforce Coalition today urged Congress to swiftly pass the bipartisan Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act (H.R. 6205/S. 3211) in light of…
The Healthcare Workforce Coalition (HWC) commends the American Hospital Association (AHA) for hosting a National Day of Awareness about combatting violence in hospitals and health systems. This year, on June 7th, AHA is hosting the eighth annual Hospitals Against Violence #HAVhope Friday where hospitals and health systems strive to find solutions for a safer workforce…