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Responding to the ongoing needs of our members, HAP hosted a Workforce Summit that brought together clinical, administrative, and workforce leaders from across Pennsylvania to learn and share best practices for developing and engaging health care teams. We’re highlighting some of the innovative ways Pennsylvania hospitals are addressing the workforce crisis.

Hands-on medical training in rural communities builds connections that leaders at St. Luke’s University Health Network are hoping will relieve the doctor shortage commonly found there.

The strategy is based on strong evidence that physicians are more likely to stay and practice where they train, according to Danielle Godfrey, MHA, manager, rural graduate medical education (GME) programs, and Micah Gursky, director, business development and government relations, who presented their findings during HAP’s recent Workforce Summit.

Responding to the ongoing needs of our members, HAP hosted a Workforce Summit that brought together clinical, administrative, and workforce leaders from across Pennsylvania to learn and share best practices for developing and engaging health care teams. We’re highlighting some of the innovative ways Pennsylvania hospitals are addressing the workforce crisis.

Securing and maintaining a steady and satisfied workforce is every hospital’s challenge, and experts at Jefferson Health are thinking outside the box to find solutions.

Responding to the ongoing needs of our members, HAP hosted a Workforce Summit that brought together clinical, administrative, and workforce leaders from across Pennsylvania to learn and share best practices for developing and engaging health care teams. We’re highlighting some of the innovative ways Pennsylvania hospitals are addressing the workforce crisis.

Penn Highlands Healthcare is leveraging partnerships with local schools to promote health care careers to the next generation’s workforce. In 2025, the hospital launched its Healthcare in High School program to build a strong local workforce pipeline by introducing students to health care careers early.

Leaders at Geisinger are being proactive in their approach to the ongoing workforce shortage. By creating a clear pathway from education to employment, hospitals can build the future health care workforce, according to Andrew Capalong, MSN, RN, system director of workforce development at Geisinger.

One way to combat the mental health challenges health care professionals face on the job is to address them directly, according to experts at AHN Forbes Hospital, (Allegheny Health Network). Investing in mental health support for their teams can help hospitals reduce stress, burnout, and workplace violence, said Tinamarie Estes-Washington, DNP, RN, PCCN, NEA-BC, during her presentation at HAP’s recent Workforce Summit.

HAP’s Workforce Summit focused on the ways hospital leaders across Pennsylvania are investing in their teams—now and for the future.

Hospitals and medical centers offered 44,344 training positions and filled more than 93 percent of those roles during a record-breaking match day earlier this month.

The American Hospital Association’s (AHA) latest “Cost of Caring” report showcases how hospitals are delivering exceptional care amid significant financial challenges.

One hundred U.S. lawmakers are calling to exempt health care from a $100,000 fee for employers petitioning for new H-1B visas.

More than 40 percent of rural hospitals are operating at a loss, putting care in jeopardy in rural regions across the country.