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Addressing Unemployment Among Health Care Workers
Director Bianca Frogner and Senior Deputy Director Sue Skillman discuss the importance of tracking unemployment [...]
Nov
Washington State Unemployment Claims: Health Related Occupations to 10/10/2020
This updated brief shows the number of both initial and continuing unemployment claims in Washington [...]
Nov
State-by-State Unemployment Claims by Health Care Workers 2/2020 – 9/2020
Four exhibits show the rate of unemployment claims filed by health care workers from February [...]
Nov
Director Bianca Frogner Speaks to the Workforce Challenges Facing Primary Care Clinics and Nursing Homes
Nursing homes and primary care clinics have both struggled with staffing due to COVID. A [...]
Oct
Director Bianca Frogner Comments on How a Recent Study Informs Scope-of-Practice Debates
California is the second state this year to pass a law that relaxes physician supervisory [...]
Oct
New Study Examining Employment of Therapists in Skilled Nursing Facilities
The Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM), a new value-based reimbursement plan under Medicare, is set [...]
Sep
Pharmacist Workforce Detailed in Two New UW CHWS Reports
UW CHWS has published two complementary studies on the size and scope of the pharmacist [...]
Sep
State-by-State Unemployment Claims by Health Care Workers 2/2020 – 7/2020
Updated maps through September 2020 available Four exhibits show the rate of unemployment claims filed [...]
Sep
Washington State Unemployment Claims: Health Related Occupations to 6/20/20
This brief shows the number of both initial and continuing unemployment claims in Washington State [...]
Jul
UW CHWS Director and Senior Deputy Director discuss decisions about returning to pre-pandemic scope-of-practice policies in Health Affairs blog
Director Bianca Frogner and Senior Deputy Director Sue Skillman co-author a Health Affairs blog post [...]
Jun