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Quitting Time

Why one former ICU nurse quit his job: "I was having panic attacks"

by David Brancaccio and Rose Conlon
Nov 11, 2021
Exploring the pandemic's toll on health care workers.
A nurse tends to a COVID-19 patient in a Connecticut ICU in April 2020. Understaffing and pandemic stressors have prompted many nurses to consider leaving the field.
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COVID-19

Stress and burnout stoke churn in health care workforce

by Mitchell Hartman
Nov 10, 2021
The U.S. has nearly 400,000 fewer workers in nursing and residential-care facilities than it did before the pandemic.
Nurses Klivia Brahja, left, and Kelley Cabrera work in the emergency room at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, New York. Many veteran nurses, Cabrera said, have retired or "they’ve gone to something easier, because this is just unmanageable.”
Courtesy Klivia Brahja
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Friendly breakup: After 129 years, GE plans future as 3 smaller companies

by Amanda Peacher
Nov 9, 2021
Separate operations focused on aviation, health care and energy will be more agile — and independent of one another's weaknesses.
General Electric said it will end its days as a conglomerate, separating into companies focused on aviation, health care and energy.
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Shelf Life

Why addressing economic inequality could help build pandemic resiliency

by Amy Scott and Maria Hollenhorst
Nov 1, 2021
“Our health is all interconnected and inextricable from the conditions in which we live,” says epidemiologist Dr. Sandro Galea.
“Most of “health” is about where we live, where we work, where we play,” says public health expert Dr. Sandro Galea. Above, a doctor puts on a mask before speaking to people without homes in San Francisco in 2020.
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Apprenticeship gives California health care workers a career boost

by Jill Replogle
Oct 21, 2021
The program helps licensed vocational nurses who work in state prisons to become registered nurses.
A program trains licensed vocational nurses who work in rural areas for the state correctional system to become registered nurses in California's correctional facilities.
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Colorado mandates health insurance coverage for transgender care

by Amanda Peacher
Oct 18, 2021
The Biden administration calls the Colorado change a "landmark" in eliminating health care disparities. Will other states follow?
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Health care workers, facing vaccine mandate deadlines, brace for staff shortages

by Caroline Champlin
Sep 28, 2021
Health care workers in a few states could lose their jobs this week if they don't get vaccinated against COVID-19.
A registered nurse attends a patient with COVID-19 at the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center in Tarzana, California on Sept. 2, 2021.
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The 9/11 Legacy

20 years on, health care claims from 9/11 survivors are increasing

by Samantha Fields
Sep 9, 2021
Many have been diagnosed with cancer. The exposure to toxins from the pulverized buildings "has a really, really long tail," a doctor says.
In 2007, paramedic Marvin Bethea, a first responder on 9/11, displayed the medications he had to take in the aftermath.
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COVID-19

High pay for traveling nurses a symptom and cause of staff shortages

by Blake Farmer
Sep 7, 2021
Traveling RNs make far more money than full-timers in the same job, stirring frustration at hospitals. Governments often foot the bill.
A poster lauding nurses'efforts hangs at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in Los Angeles. The COVID pandemic has put more demands on nurses — and created more demand for nurses.
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Black, Hispanic and Indigenous patients are less likely to get specialized health care, study says

by Amanda Peacher
Aug 31, 2021
The reasons range from disparities created by Medicaid to racism in health care, according to experts.
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