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nurse shortage

Jul 8, 2025

PA officially joins health care licensure compacts to ease shortages

Pennsylvania joins three licensure compacts to help doctors, nurses, and physical therapists work across state lines and ease health care staffing shortages.

May 9, 2024

Nurses: Working conditions a major cause of exodus

Working conditions are a major cause of nurses leaving health care, state House Democrats were told during an informational meeting May 7. 

Jan 30, 2024

HAP: Public policies needed to grow health care workforce

The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) says public policies are needed to help health care systems fill their workforce needs. 

Nov 9, 2023

What’s being done to address the nursing shortage long term?

About 100,000 nurses – a 40-year record –left their jobs between 2020 and 2021 with a concerning number of them aged 35 or younger

May 29, 2019

As population ages, a nursing shortage looms

A look at how Lehigh Valley health care institutions are facing a projected nursing shortage.