recruitment and retention

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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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Crain’s New York Business

More than half a million home health workers in New York have fueled the state’s post-pandemic economic recovery as a popular Medicaid-funded home care program exploded, a new report shows…

…Growth in the state’s home care workforce has inflated overall job growth in the industry, hiding persisting shortages of other types of clinicians. Hospitals are still struggling to recruit and retain lab technicians, psychiatrists and registered nurses after the pandemic, according to a report by the Center for Health Workforce Studies at SUNY Albany. Experts have chalked up the persistence of health workforce shortages to low pay.

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