Halifax Health offers new incentives for nurses amid COVID-19 increase leaving hospitals short-staffed
Many employees took travel or agency nurse jobs that pay more
Halifax Health offering incentives amid nursing shortage
VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – As hospitals in Central Florida deal with a surge in COVID-19 cases, crews also dealing with a shortage of nurses.
Halifax Health in Daytona Beach is looking to hire 125 more nurses and is offering incentives like higher pay to try and get people to accept job offers.
“We had a nursing shortage prior to [COVID-19] we knew this was coming we’ve been dealing with it for probably the last ten to fifteen years. What [COVID-19] has done is it’s really just brought that to light quicker,” Senior Vice President of Halifax Health Kim Fulcher said.
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