January 23, 2023 Survey Finds High Vacancy Rates for Health Care Professionals More than 3 in 10 positions for some of the key professionals who make up patient care teams in Pennsylvania hospitals were vacant at the end of last year, a report released today by The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) found.
January 09, 2023 Top Priorities for Pennsylvania’s Health Care Providers Pennsylvania’s newly elected state and federal leaders have an important opportunity to advance health care across the commonwealth, especially to improve access to behavioral health.
December 30, 2022 HAP Year in Review: The Biggest Stories from 2022 This year saw plenty of new COVID-19 developments, but we saw several other important topics come to the forefront as well, including a growing focus on health care cybersecurity, the behavioral health crisis, hospitals’ financial strain, and the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
December 23, 2022 State Receives $100 Million in Federal Funding for Public Health Infrastructure Pennsylvania is receiving nearly $100 million in federal funding to support its public health infrastructure, state officials announced this week.
December 13, 2022 Forecasting 2023 Health Care Workforce Challenges The nation’s nursing workforce lost more than 100,000 people from 2019 through 2022, according to a new report from the American Hospital Association (AHA).
November 30, 2022 U.S. Hospitals Face Continued Financial Strain The nation’s hospitals have faced “one of the worst financial years on record,” and the pressures continued during October, according to the latest Kaufman Hall flash report.
November 03, 2022 Hospital Financial Challenges Persist through 2022 The latest Kaufman Hall snapshot highlights hospitals’ financial strain, with operating margins remaining in the red for the ninth consecutive month during September.
October 21, 2022 Growing the Nursing Workforce This week, federal lawmakers introduced new legislation designed to bolster the nursing workforce through accelerated nursing degree programs.
October 20, 2022 How COVID-19 Changed Health Care The pandemic may have been a “turning point” that shifted patient care to outpatient, online, and home settings, while accelerating workforce challenges across U.S. hospitals.
October 20, 2022 Celebrating National Healthcare Quality Week Healthcare Quality Week, brought to you by the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ), is dedicated to celebrating the outstanding contributions professionals have made to improve health care quality. It also gives us an opportunity to bring greater awareness to the profession of health care. This year’s celebration takes place on October 16–22.