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Health care facilities have hit the wall on medical staffing due to the growing number of COVID-19 hospitalizations. And that likely means higher operations costs.
The virus has created a huge demand for not only nurses, already in short supply nationwide, but other clinical workers as well. Hospitals and clinics also need to fill slots created by absences when regular staffers test positive or have to quarantine.
As the nation confronts its third surge of COVID patients â the biggest yet â hospitals, nursing homes, labs and other health care providers are squeezed for staff, despite assistance from the National Guard.