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News Articles: health care workers

Striking Kaiser Permanente workers on the picket line in front of a hospital in Vallejo, Calif., on Oct. 6. A deal to avert another strike came together Friday.

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  • Health Care

After historic strike, Kaiser Permanente workers win 21% raise over 4 years

The health care giant and the coalition of unions that walked out for three days earlier this month announced a contract deal that averts another strike.

October 14, 2023
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin and
  • Scott Maucione
U.K.-based artist Sarita Maharjan creates a portrait of late firefighter-paramedic Jerry Pacheco of Houston, Texas.

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  • Art & Design

An art exhibit on the National Mall honors health care workers who died of COVID

Art curator Susannah Perlman, who lost her mother to COVID-19, created the Hero Art Project on the National Mall to eternalize the smiles of other health care workers lost to the pandemic.

November 24, 2022
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By:
  • Olivia Hampton
An injured Tigray People's Liberation Front fighter who was shot in the cheek recovers after surgery at the Ayder Comprehensive Specialized Hospital in Mekele, the capital of Ethiopia's Tigray region. It's the only place in Tigray currently conducting surgery. Elsewhere, "they are stopped because there is no supply, there is no electricity, and there is no fuel," says one Tigray doctor.

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  • Global Health

'Where is humanity?' ask the helpless doctors of Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region

Civil war has blockaded the country's northern region and decimated a hospital system that serves nearly 7 million people. Without basic supplies, power and medicine, thousands are needlessly dying.

October 14, 2022
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
Operating room

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  • Health

Bill in Legislature targets dangerous 'medical smoke'

In operating rooms, the smoke created by surgery can be a health hazard for those breathing it in. Such “surgical smoke’’ is a byproduct of the thermal destruction of human tissue by the use of lasers or other devices.

March 28, 2022
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By:
  • Andy Miller
Mary Venus, a nurse from the Philippines, on duty at Billings Clinic in Billings, Mont.

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  • Health

Short-staffed and COVID-battered, U.S. hospitals are hiring more foreign nurses

Montana's largest hospital recently signed employment contracts with two dozen foreign nurses. Nationwide, a backlog of 5,000 international nurses await approval to enter the U.S.

January 06, 2022
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By:
  • Nick Ehli

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  • Health

Why your doctor may be quilting and your nurse may have a podcast

You could call them hobbies. But for some health workers facing burnout, creative outlets provide more than solace — they give a sense of meaning and community.

December 29, 2021
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By:
  • Grace Farris
Left to right: Filipino American health care workers Karen Cantor, Karen Shoker, and John Paul Atienza were among many who cared for COVID patients in the early days of the pandemic.

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  • Health

Filipino American health workers reflect on trauma and healing on COVID's frontlines

They have shouldered an outsize share of COVID-19's burden, statistics show. Many lost family members; others got sick themselves, recovered and carried on. Meet the caregivers.

November 09, 2021
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By:
  • Rosem Morton
At a meeting in Concord, New Hampshire, on Oct. 13, 2021, audience members voice opposition to federal vaccine mandates. Some employers, from state governments to hospitals to private companies, have already begun enforcing their own vaccine mandates, leading to the resignation or firing of a small percentage of workers.

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  • Business

Thousands of workers are opting to get fired, rather than take the vaccine

Employers are firing workers for refusing to comply with vaccine mandates. They represent only a tiny fraction of overall employees, not even 1% in some workplaces. But it can add up to thousands.

October 25, 2021
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
Pastor Billy Joe Lewis was all in favor when a local health worker suggested a COVID-19 vaccine clinic in the parking lot of his church in Smilax, Ky. "We've still got to use common sense," Lewis says. "Anything that can ward off suffering and death, I think, is a wonderful thing."

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  • Health

Kentucky's backroad churches may be key to saving hospitals overwhelmed by COVID

Public health workers are going church to church and house to house in the state's secluded valleys to dispel COVID myths, ease isolation, bring aid, and convince wary residents to get vaccinated.

October 20, 2021
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By:
  • Sarah Varney
A doctor stands at a walk-up coronavirus testing site at West County Health Center in San Pablo, Calif., in April 2020. Pandemic burnout has affected thousands of health care workers.

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  • Health Care

The federal government pledges $100 million to address health care worker shortages

As health care workers face increased levels of pandemic burnout, the Biden administration is looking to help states recruit and retain clinicians in underserved areas.

October 15, 2021
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By:
  • Deepa Shivaram
Anti-vaccine mandate protesters rally outside the front doors of the Los Angeles Unified School District, LAUSD headquarters in Los Angeles Thursday Sept. 9, 2021.

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  • Business

Nurses Are In Short Supply. Employers Worry Vaccine Mandate Could Make It Worse

President Biden has ordered more than 17 million health care workers to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Some health care employers fear losing large numbers of workers who don't want the shots.

September 23, 2021
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
In Idaho, a record number of people are hospitalized with COVID-19, raising the possibility of rationing medical care. Many states are grappling with the fallout of the delta variant's surge in cases.

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  • Health

A COVID Surge Is Overwhelming U.S. Hospitals, Raising Fears Of Rationed Care

The delta variant is pummeling America's hospitals, taxing an already-depleted health care workforce. Once again, some states are facing the prospect of rationing medical care.

September 06, 2021
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By:
  • Will Stone
An IV bag hangs in the foreground with a blurred health care worker in the background.

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  • Health Care

Pandemic Leads To Health Care Worker Burnout, Career Changes, Hospital Staffing Issues

Like many hospitals and businesses across Georgia and the U.S., Emory Healthcare is experiencing staffing challenges. For health care institutions, this situation has been exacerbated by the direct impact of care teams’ tireless response to the COVID-19 pandemic over the past 18 months.

July 23, 2021
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Tim Osswalt and his wife, Molly

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  • Health Care

A Disturbing Number Of Hospital Workers Still Unvaccinated

Nationwide, 1 in 4 hospital workers who have direct contact with patients had not yet received a single dose of a COVID vaccine by the end of May, according to a WebMD and Medscape Medical News analysis of data collected by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from 2,500 hospitals across the U.S.

June 29, 2021
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By:
  • Brenda Goodman and
  • Andy Miller
Diverse family in living room

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  • Health

Survey Examines Pandemic-Induced Insomnia Disorder

A recent study from Augusta University Medical Center finds the pandemic triggered a more than 40% increase in insomnia disorder among their health care workers. 

May 03, 2021
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
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