If Mississippi’s hospitals were adequately staffed amid the current COVID-19 resurgence, they could open over 1,000 additional beds statewide, health officials said Wednesday. Seventy-three Mississippi hospitals have collectively asked the state for roughly 1,450 health care workers, said Jim Craig, senior deputy and director of health protection for the Mississippi State Department […]

The labor shortage roiling American industries from restaurants to retail stores is now stressing the health care system, causing a ripple effect among Washington hospitals of severe overcrowding. The state’s hospitals are at near maximum capacity, forcing administrators to shuffle patients to other facilities, cancel surgeries and fill hallways with […]

BOSTON – Nurses in Massachusetts have filed proposed ballot questions calling for redistributing earnings from well-off hospitals to those that may cut services, increasing financial transparency, and banning hospital CEOs from working with medical device or pharmaceutical companies. Massachusetts Nurses Association Executive Director Julie Pinkham filed three initiative petitions with the Attorney General’s […]