Crain’s New York Business
Roughly a dozen facilities in the New York City metropolitan area will receive part of a $32.5 million state fund to boost healthcare workforce training and development…
…The state’s healthcare workforce has grown unevenly since the pandemic, both geographically and by setting, with the city and Long Island seeing major gains over upstate New York and outpatient and home-based care far outpacing hospital staff increases, according to a May report from the Center for Health Workforce Studies at UAlbany.
While the state healthcare workforce has exceeded pre-pandemic levels in recent years, projections for the coming years are less rosy. For example, the state Department of Labor projected an average of 17,000 job postings for registered nurses annually between 2022 and 2032, but nurse graduation rates have remained around 10,000 per year, the report shows.