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The United States does not have two separate health care workforce crises. It has one crisis with two symptoms. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) projects supply adequacy of physicians at 88 percent and supply adequacy of registered nurses at 94 percent by 2033. Shortages remain particularly acute in non-metro areas and in rural hospitals, safety-net facilities, and long-term care settings. Yet the federal infrastructure for workforce planning for physicians and nurses remains almost entirely separate, preventing the development of a cohesive national strategy or provider pipelines capable of addressing the nation’s broader health care access crisis…

…The nursing bottleneck is primarily an undergraduate problem: too few faculty and too few clinical training sites in some locations and too few applicants in others. During the 2023–24 academic year, nursing schools turned away more than 65,000 qualified applicants. Yet a 2025 analysis of Texas found more than 5,000 unfilled seats across the state’s nursing programs. These geographic differences mean national projections can mask severe regional shortages. And without a national applicant distribution plan, such as a matching program, seats will continue to go unfilled at some schools while applicants are turned away from schools at capacity.

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A new report from the Center for Health Workforce Studies found that hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and home care agencies across upstate New York still struggle to recruit registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, therapists, primary care physicians and other essential workers. At the same time, the education pipeline is producing fewer nurses in the Finger Lakes and Central New York even as demand is projected to remain high.

The findings are contained in the center’s 2026 report on healthcare workforce supply and demand. The University at Albany-based research center examined employment, salaries, professional licenses, graduations, employer surveys and state labor projections.

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A new report on New York’s healthcare workforce says the state still doesn’t have enough primary care providers, especially in upstate regions, leaving millions of residents with fewer options for routine care and longer waits for appointments.

The report, from the University at Albany’s Center for Health Workforce Studies, finds persistent gaps in primary care across much of New York. Program manager Nafin Harun said nearly 5 million people live in federally designated primary care shortage areas.

“We need just above 1,000 providers to close those shortages,” Harun said, adding that figure is a floor, not a ceiling, for what’s needed.

For patients like Justine Morris, the impact is personal. Morris said not having a primary care provider allowed a misdiagnosis to linger.

“I didn’t know I had cancer for the last seven months. I just found out they didn’t send me the correct report,” Morris said.

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CBS 6 Albany

Healthcare employment in New York grew sharply from 2020 to 2024, but a new report from the University at Albany’s Center for Health Workforce Studies found that most of that growth happened downstate, while many upstate and rural areas saw little change or even declines in key jobs.

The report found a 15% increase in healthcare employment statewide between 2020 and 2024. Nearly all of that growth was concentrated in New York City and on Long Island, where healthcare jobs rose 20%. All other regions of the state combined saw just 3% growth.

Robert Martiniano, a senior program manager with the Center for Health Workforce Studies, said the data show rural areas are being left behind in some sectors. “If you look at all these rural areas, there’s not only not growth, but there’s a decline in home health jobs,” Martiniano said.

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Crain’s New York Business

While New York’s healthcare jobs numbers have bounced back since the pandemic, a growing home care industry in the city and a scarcity of personnel upstate has made the recovery deeply uneven.

Healthcare jobs statewide grew 15% between 2020 and 2024, mostly in New York City and Long Island, according to the latest snapshot from the Center for Health Workforce Studies at UAlbany, part of the SUNY system. Healthcare jobs grew just 3 % outside the city, Nassau and Suffolk counties.

The numbers represent the complexity of rebuilding after the pandemic.

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WAMC North East Public Radio

The Center for Health Workforce Studies (CHWS) was recently featured on WAMC’s The Best of Our Knowledge, where David Armstrong and Leanne Keough discussed findings from a recent nursing faculty study and its implications for the healthcare workforce.

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Daily Gazette

ALBANY — Jessica McNally discovered her passion for teaching two decades ago while being shadowed by a nursing student during one of her shifts at St. Clare’s Hospital.

She turned that passion into a full-time career in 2008, when the Schenectady-based hospital ceased operations. The transition created what McNally describes as “the perfect scenario” to train the next generation of registered nurses while maintaining her skills working with students in clinical settings.

“It’s the best parts of nursing for me. It’s extremely rewarding,” said McNally, who now serves as the department chair at the Andrea Lewis Siek School of Nursing at Maria College in Albany…

…Nursing faculty earn $18,346 less on average than clinical staff nurses, according to a report published last year in the Nurse Educator journal. The report found that faculty nurses earn $19,863 less than charge nurses and an average of $27,526 below what front-line nurse managers earn.

The study also concluded that faculty at nursing colleges work longer hours on average than their counterparts and typically have decades more experience, which are “attributes that would typically require higher salaries in clinical roles.”

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Rochester First

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) – A new report out of Albany shows the demand for registered nurses in New York is outpacing the number of those entering the workforce.

As the nationwide shortage continues, News 8 heard from local college leaders on their continued efforts to train and place qualified nurses.

Over the next five years, the New York State Department of Labor projects more than 15,000 openings for RNs each year.

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Money Digest

As per healthcare payment solution provider Credee, a full mouth dental implant will incur an average cost of $15,000 to $35,000 per arch in 2026. This doesn’t include the cost of pre- and post-operative procedures, which raise these amounts to anywhere from $60,000 to $90,000. Out of all the sneaky factors that can drive up the cost of dental implants, the location of your procedure is one of the most controllable factors. The cost of dental implants are highest in several states, specifically Maine, New York, Connecticut, Oregon, Rhode Island, Maryland, the District of Columbia, California, Massachusetts, Alaska, and Hawaii…

There are a few reasons for the premium cost of dental implants in New York, one which is the quality of experience and expertise. According to a 2022 study by the Center for Health Workforce Studies (CHWS), 56% of dentists were trained in a residency program, with 80% of working dentists having worked at private dental clinics, and 76% having experience as general dentists. Second, the same reasons why living in New York with an average income typically makes you lower class apply with higher dental costs. The cost of operating a business can be higher, and as with anything else, this gets passed on to the patient. State-of-the-art patient care also comes with its own cost, and if your dentist is using the latest technology to perform procedures like dental implants, you can expect to pay for that, too. In 2024, the CHWS found that one in six New Yorkers couldn’t afford dental care for a reason.

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The demand for registered nurses in New York is outpacing the number of people entering the profession, as a new report by the Center for Health Workforce Studies reveals mounting barriers to training and retaining nursing talent across the state.

The state Department of Labor projects more than 17,000 annual openings for registered nurses between 2022 and 2032. The state is currently producing roughly 10,000 new nurses per year — a gap that experts warn will widen if structural problems go unaddressed.

About half of nursing programs reported turning away qualified applicants last year, citing insufficient faculty, shortages of clinical training sites and enrollment caps.

Robert Martiniano, the report’s author, pointed to pay disparities as a root cause.

“When you look at faculty salaries versus bedside salaries, there’s still a huge disparity there,” Martiniano said.

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