Staffing

This channel provides news on management of staff and proper staffing levels for safe, high-quality healthcare system. Physician and clinician workforce shortages have become growing challenge for hospitals, with burnout also now affecting nearly all medical workers. Topics include medical staffing issues, statistics, compensation how to improve clinician morale and the workplace environment, and ways to combat clinician burnout.

Data-based physician staffing stands to save millions of dollars for multi-hospital health systems
A data-crunching method for staffing a key clinical department has reduced physician overtime by 13 hours a day and downtime by 14 hours at a large urban health system. The researchers who tallied the results estimate daily savings at $8,400 a day.
Baxter cuts 90 jobs from IV solutions site once devastated by Hurricane Helene
The facility near Asheville, North Carolina, was shut down after floodwater from the 2024 hurricane left its production lines inoperable. It took the company roughly five months to resume normal operations—and now it’s seeing a slowdown in demand in wake of the supply chain disruption.
Massive strike of 31K workers at Kaiser Permanente enters third week with no end in sight
Contract negotiations began in September but have stalled. Workers walked off the job at dozens of Kaiser hospitals and clinics on Jan. 26. Now the scope of the strike is expanding and there are no new negotiations scheduled.
Humana and Google partner on healthcare AI ‘Agent Assist’ for improved member support
The insurer said Google’s Gemini was part of the new AI’s core development. The system will support customer service interactions by automatically summarizing calls and pulling up relevant information, without the need for manual input. The Google Cloud will be providing the necessary data security to ensure patient privacy, the companies added.
Radiologists call for innovative funding strategies to boost specialty’s workforce
Physicians made their plea in in the February issue of the JACR, which is focused on the “Economics of Education,” and meant to spark “dialogue around how radiology education is valued, supported and delivered.”

Data-based physician staffing stands to save millions of dollars for multi-hospital health systems

A data-crunching method for staffing a key clinical department has reduced physician overtime by 13 hours a day and downtime by 14 hours at a large urban health system. The researchers who tallied the results estimate daily savings at $8,400 a day.

Helene damage to bridge Baxter North Cove facility in North Carolina.

Baxter cuts 90 jobs from IV solutions site once devastated by Hurricane Helene

The facility near Asheville, North Carolina, was shut down after floodwater from the 2024 hurricane left its production lines inoperable. It took the company roughly five months to resume normal operations—and now it’s seeing a slowdown in demand in wake of the supply chain disruption.

Massive strike of 31K workers at Kaiser Permanente enters third week with no end in sight

Contract negotiations began in September but have stalled. Workers walked off the job at dozens of Kaiser hospitals and clinics on Jan. 26. Now the scope of the strike is expanding and there are no new negotiations scheduled.

Humana and Google partner on healthcare AI ‘Agent Assist’ for improved member support

The insurer said Google’s Gemini was part of the new AI’s core development. The system will support customer service interactions by automatically summarizing calls and pulling up relevant information, without the need for manual input. The Google Cloud will be providing the necessary data security to ensure patient privacy, the companies added.

Radiologists call for innovative funding strategies to boost specialty’s workforce

Physicians made their plea in in the February issue of the JACR, which is focused on the “Economics of Education,” and meant to spark “dialogue around how radiology education is valued, supported and delivered.”

Image depicting gap between genders in pay

Female radiologists earn $94,000 less than their male colleagues each year

Across all specialties, women docs collect 78 cents for every dollar taken in by men—a figure that adds up to $3.3 million over the course of a 30-year career, according to Marit Health.

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Radiology among America's 5 highest paid professions, US News & World Report says

Members of the specialty earned a median salary of approximately $239,200 last year, based on survey data gathered by the media company last fall.

University of Pittsburgh grappling with weeks-long delays for imaging results

UPMC, Pennsylvania’s largest hospital system, is reportedly struggling with radiologist shortages, which are forcing the organization to prioritize urgent imaging orders in some cases.