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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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