Week 5 Newsletter

COVID-19 Updates: May 12th 2020

Surge Capacity Strategies
Surge Capacity Resources

(05/11/20) Federal Funding for State and Local Contact Tracing Efforts is an Urgent Priority, and a Bargain

(05/09/20) Three Workforce Strategies to Help COVID Affected Communities

(05/06/20) To Strengthen the Public Health Response to COVID-19, We Need Community Health Workers

(05/06/20) Mullan Institute Contact Tracing Workforce Estimator

Maintaining the Educational Pipeline
Educational Pipeline Resources

(05/08/20) They Had Plans to Go to Nursing School. Maryland Officials Hope Coronavirus Hasn’t Changed Their Minds

Regulatory Flexibility
Regulatory Flexibility Resources

(05/08/20) Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act: Is Relief On the Way for Physicians and Nurses?

State Workforce Strategies
State Workforce Strategies Resources

(05/06/20) Gov. Wolf Outlines Plans to Create Commonwealth Civilian Coronavirus Corps to Support Fall COVID-19 Recovery Efforts

(05/06/20) The Nurse Practitioner Workforce and its Role in the Massachusetts Health Care Delivery System

(05/06/20) Cuomo Extends Order Allowing Out-Of-State Medical Professionals to Work in New York

Health Workforce Policies and Guidelines

Health Workforce Policies and Guidelines Resources

(05/08/20) As Hospitals Lose Revenue, More Than a Million Health Care Workers Lose Jobs

(05/08/20) Health-Care Industry Loses 1.4 Million Jobs in Pandemic

(05/06/20) From Shortages to Furloughs, Pandemic Gives In-Demand Nursing Profession a Stress Test

(05/04/20) What CMS’s Response to COVID-19 Means for Front Line Clinicians

(05/02/20) Thousands of Healthcare Workers are Laid Off or Furloughed as Coronavirus Spreads