Posted on 10/15/2021 10:42:10 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
As health care workers face increased pandemic burnout, some states — particularly in underserved areas — have had challenges retaining existing staff and recruiting new clinicians.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is now committing $100 million through the American Rescue Plan to help solve the problem.
"Our health care workers have worked tirelessly to save lives throughout this pandemic and now it's our turn to invest in them," Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a statement.
"This investment is critical to ensuring state public health officials can continue supporting specific needs across their communities," he said.
The funds, which are now open for applications until April 8, 2022, are eligible "for state-run programs that support, recruit, and retain primary care clinicians who live and work in underserved communities," HHS says. The department hopes that being able to retain health care workers in underserved areas will help improve health equity.
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Stop firing them.
Translation:
Large numbers of Black and hispanic doctors and nurses and other health care staff refuse to take the jab.
So, we are going to hire and recruit new ones to take their place.
They will receive super-fast training.
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What could possibly go wrong?
Uh....Remove the stupid Vax mandate!?!??!
Divided by 50 states, that averages out to 40 healthcare workers per state. For one year.
Yeah, that'll fix the healthcare worker shortage.
Let's Go, Brandon!
The anti-Constitutional income tax needs to be removed yesterday.
Pure insanity and we are fools for tolerating it.
Typical communist tactic. Create a major problem and then create a huge bureaucracy costing million and employing thousands of fellow travelers to “cure” the problem.
When all that is really needed is for government to go away.
See my tag line.
Those funds will never get further then the governments play money.
I thought this was from the Bee.
Bigger government, more socialism, more government control.
Who would have ever thought you could just throw money at the situation and health care is fixed.
Causing more relentless inflationary pressure on prices.
What a relief! That will fix everything!
So let it be written, so let it be done. Shaboom!
/s
Another fake government “solution” to a problem that government created.
Cut in the middle man, taxes and so on, and that 2,000 workers is closer to 200.
But just between you and me, they don't want solutions, unless they see the problem as a pork shortage.
...challenges retaining existing staff
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Forced termination of medical staff indeed leads to “challenges”. Who knew.
Some of that has happened in red states, including Arizona (more like, purple) without state wide mandates. Banner Health and others have taken it upon themselves to issue authoritarian mandates.
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