Hospitals are scrambling to find staff as the . As of Friday, Ohio had almost 4,000 COVID-19 hospitalizations, and 1,000 of the cases are in the ICU, which is adding to employee burnout.
Competition for staff between health care providers is compounding the shortage. John Palmer, with the , said hospitals are offering a range of financial incentives to attract new employees.
鈥淗ospitals are trying to step up and looking at their benefits packages," said Palmer. "They鈥檙e looking at sign-on bonuses. They鈥檙e looking at helping with tuition and other incentives in that regard.鈥� He says some hospitals are also offering bonuses to existing employees to keep them from leaving.
Palmer said the ICU is where they鈥檝e seen the most employee burnout because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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