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THREAD on recent developments in states underscoring the need for strengthening the workforce. #HWRA is a bipartisan bill that will provide protections for US trained physicians and enable highly trained nurses to serve as reinforcements. 1/14
@sendavidperdue @senatemajldr
@sendavidperdue @senatemajldr
"Ohio health officials warned on Monday that fall and winter’s coronavirus surge won’t be marked by a shortage of ventilators or protective equipment, but a scarcity of health-care workers to care for patients." 2/14
@senrobportman @SenSherrodBrown https://www.toledoblade.com/local/Coronavirus/2020/11/09/ohio-coronavirus-covid-cases-surge-health-worker-shortage/stories/20201109133
@senrobportman @SenSherrodBrown https://www.toledoblade.com/local/Coronavirus/2020/11/09/ohio-coronavirus-covid-cases-surge-health-worker-shortage/stories/20201109133
"As COVID-19 cases in Minnesota continue to surge, some Minnesota hospitals and health care providers are asking employees with “higher-risk” exposure to the disease to return to work before their quarantines end." 3/14
@TinaSmithMN @amyklobuchar https://www.startribune.com/quarantined-minnesota-health-care-workers-feel-pressure-to-return-to-work-early/573011541/
@TinaSmithMN @amyklobuchar https://www.startribune.com/quarantined-minnesota-health-care-workers-feel-pressure-to-return-to-work-early/573011541/
"Their workers are at increased risk of becoming infected with the virus or being exposed to someone who is, forcing them to isolate or quarantine for as long as two weeks." 4/14
@RonJohnsonWI @SenatorBaldwin https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/health-care/2020/11/06/hundreds-health-care-workers-across-wisconsin-sidelined-covid-19/6174355002/
@RonJohnsonWI @SenatorBaldwin https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/health-care/2020/11/06/hundreds-health-care-workers-across-wisconsin-sidelined-covid-19/6174355002/
"...to alleviate some of the staffing concerns, ND announced that the state health officer has amended an order that will allow health care workers with asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 to continue working in hospitals' COVID-19 units." @SenJohnHoeven 5/14 https://www.grandforksherald.com/newsmd/coronavirus/6753876-With-North-Dakota-hospitals-at-100-capacity-Burgum-announces-COVID-positive-nurses-can-stay-at-work
"The continued rise in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations has some hospitals “stretched thin,” with a shortage of healthcare workers more of a concern than hospital bed availability..." @JohnBoozman
6/14 https://talkbusiness.net/2020/11/hospital-association-director-says-some-arkansas-hospitals-stretched-thin-warns-of-health-care-worker-shortage/
6/14 https://talkbusiness.net/2020/11/hospital-association-director-says-some-arkansas-hospitals-stretched-thin-warns-of-health-care-worker-shortage/
"Gov. Larry Hogan is renewing his call for more healthcare workers to avoid shortages amid the coronavirus pandemic." @SenatorCardin @VanHollenForMD #S3599
7/14 https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2020/11/05/governor-hogan-calls-for-more-healthcare-workers-coronavirus-maryland-latest/
7/14 https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2020/11/05/governor-hogan-calls-for-more-healthcare-workers-coronavirus-maryland-latest/
"As infections surge throughout UT, cases also continue to rise in health care workers. Nearly 1,700 more cases among health care workers have been confirmed in less than two weeks, bringing the total since the pandemic began to 9,400." @MittRomney
8/14 https://www.deseret.com/utah/2020/11/7/21554197/coronavirus-cases-salt-lake-deaths-record-hospitalizations-emergency-restrictions-testing-students
8/14 https://www.deseret.com/utah/2020/11/7/21554197/coronavirus-cases-salt-lake-deaths-record-hospitalizations-emergency-restrictions-testing-students
Kentucky too. @senatemajldr @McConnellPress @RandPaul
"One of the concerns we have for hospitals is not that we will first run out of bed space but that we may not have enough healthcare workers to staff all those beds," Dr. Stack said.
9/14 https://www.lex18.com/news/coronavirus/kentucky-health-experts-warn-of-possible-healthcare-worker-shortage-if-cases-continue-to-rise
"One of the concerns we have for hospitals is not that we will first run out of bed space but that we may not have enough healthcare workers to staff all those beds," Dr. Stack said.
9/14 https://www.lex18.com/news/coronavirus/kentucky-health-experts-warn-of-possible-healthcare-worker-shortage-if-cases-continue-to-rise
New Hampshire. 10/14
@SenatorShaheen @SenatorHassan https://www.unionleader.com/news/health/coronavirus/newport-nursing-home-needs-staff-following-covid-19-outbreak/article_ca6b4b0c-7535-5fc7-b2cd-008d2ee5c920.html
@SenatorShaheen @SenatorHassan https://www.unionleader.com/news/health/coronavirus/newport-nursing-home-needs-staff-following-covid-19-outbreak/article_ca6b4b0c-7535-5fc7-b2cd-008d2ee5c920.html
"KHA’s Monday dashboard shows the KC Metro and South Central Kansas area hospitals hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 40 percent of those hospitals anticipate staffing shortages this week." @PatRoberts @RogerMarshallMD @JerryMoran 11/14 https://www.wibw.com/2020/11/10/kansas-hospitals-feel-strain-of-covid-surge/
'In Montana, pandemic-induced staffing shortages have shuttered a clinic in the state's capital, [and] led a northwestern regional hospital to ask employees exposed to COVID-19 to continue to work...' @SteveDaines @SenatorTester 12/14 https://kstp.com/coronavirus/coronavirus-infections-causing-health-care-worker-shortages/5906014/
"State officials are renewing their call for retired health care workers to help relieve staff in Indiana’s hospitals..."
@SenToddYoung @SenatorBraun 13/14 https://www.wthitv.com/content/news/Indiana-seeks-retired-health-care-workers-for-COVID-19-help-573016561.html
@SenToddYoung @SenatorBraun 13/14 https://www.wthitv.com/content/news/Indiana-seeks-retired-health-care-workers-for-COVID-19-help-573016561.html
Congress must pass S. 3599 to sure up the health care workforce. @sendavidperdue @RoyBlunt @SenToddYoung
Bipartisan, forward-looking legislation that will directly support COVID response efforts in the months ahead. #HWRA
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Bipartisan, forward-looking legislation that will directly support COVID response efforts in the months ahead. #HWRA
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