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The Biden administration finalized nursing home staffing rules Monday that will require thousands of them to hire more nurses and aides — while giving them years to do so.

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Smaller U.S. providers and community health care centers fight to stay afloat after Change Healthcare hack

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Hack poses financial problems for community health centers - Roll Call In the aftermath of the Change Healthcare hack, small providers and community health centers are struggling to pay their bills. Jessica Wehrman Roll Call

Community health centers and organizations that primarily serve low-income people are being disproportionately hurt by the biggest hack in health care history, which has disrupted payments for thousands of health care providers for a month now.

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Opinion: sabbaticals for nurses could help counter shortages and burnout

Mar

Sabbaticals for nurses could help fight worker shortages and burnout Sabbaticals for nurses could help fight worker shortages and burnout. Torie Bosch STAT

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Reasons why female health care workers suffer high rate of burnout--study

Mar

Burnout is rampant among female health care workers. Here’s why Health care workers — and particularly female health care workers — are burning out at alarming rates. A recent survey from nursing marketplace platform ShiftKey shared with The Hill fo… aoconnelld The Hill

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US healthcare hack creates hard choices for many affected doctors.

Mar

Patients or payroll? US healthcare hack creates hard choices Nearly two weeks after the ransomware attack on UnitedHealth's Change Healthcare unit that has disrupted claims processing across the U.S., doctors are beginning to face a no win choice - stop treating patients or stop paying staff. Julie Steenhuysen Reuters

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U.S. nursing homes still plagued by staff shortages and poor infection control--government report

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Staffing shortages, poor infection control plague nursing homes - UPI.com Although the pandemic has ended, staffing shortages and employee burnout still plague U.S. nursing homes, a new government report finds. UPI

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High turnover among American health workers documented in new study

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Pandemic resulted in high healthcare worker turnover NanoStockk/iStock CIDRAP

Using US Census Bureau state unemployment insurance data, researchers from Johns Hopkins University documented a significant job turnover among healthcare workers (HCWs) during the COVID-19 pandemic, which suggests long-term implications for the US healthcare sector.

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