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Nurse employment and wage trends

Healthcare ECONOMIST

According to Pew , due to nursing shortages “Hospitals nationwide are canceling nonemergency surgeries, struggling to quickly find beds for patients and failing to meet the minimum nurse-patient ratios experts recommend.” However, these are anecdotal accounts. 11 percent), outpatient care centers (?8

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Our Nursing Home Industry – A National Scandal

HIT Consultant

Furthermore, the cumulative percent decrease is drastically more than that in other health care sectors over the same period, with the total health sector seeing a 2.7% decrease, outpatient care centers seeing a 1.8% decrease, and hospitals seeing a 1.8% increase, home health services seeing a 1.4%

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