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Nurse employment and wage trends

Healthcare ECONOMIST

However, these are anecdotal accounts. Based on the data, the authors find a decline in health care employment that is “unprecedented” By April 2020 employment had decreased most in physician offices (?11 11 percent), outpatient care centers (?8 8 percent), and home health care (?7 7 percent).

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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% Nursing home closures are especially alarming when you take into account that the U.S.

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