Northwell Opens High School to Tackle NY’s Health Care Worker Shortage
Crain’s New York Business
The Northwell School of Health Sciences in Woodside welcomed its first class of 230 ninth-graders in early September.
New York hospitals face clinical shortages as low pay and burnout drive recruitment challenges. One mega system is taking matters into its own hands by bringing scrubs and stethoscopes into the classroom…
…“The shortages are everywhere,” said Dr. Robert Martiniano, senior program manager at the University of Albany’s Center for Health Workforce Studies. That includes deficits of low-wage workers like home health aides as well as nurse practitioner and doctor jobs that require years of training, he said, demanding a multitude of workforce initiatives to help officials fill the gaps.