Paying for staff training can be a hurdle for health clinics aiming to find and retain talent. Idaho Community Health Centers Association (ICHCA) is helping bridge that gap by sponsoring apprenticeship training and helping with funding coordination, specifically for dental assistants and community health workers. Doing so will, ideally, help clinics demonstrate to potential employees .
The pool of health care workers in Idaho is scarce, but an apprenticeship program aims to increase the number of medical and dental assistants statewide.
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(Eric Teghethoff, publicnewsservice.org) It's tough to find workers for Idaho's health clinics right now, but an apprenticeship program is hoping to address these woes. Nearly three years of the pandemic have led to turnover and burnout in the medical field, and workers are hard to find with unemployment numbers so low. To deal with the
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