{"id":9695,"date":"2024-09-09T21:27:55","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T21:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/?p=9695"},"modified":"2024-10-19T01:00:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T01:00:35","slug":"uw-chws-director-quoted-in-medscape-article-on-healthcare-workforce-projections-by-mercer-consulting-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/2024\/09\/09\/uw-chws-director-quoted-in-medscape-article-on-healthcare-workforce-projections-by-mercer-consulting-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"UW CHWS Director Quoted in Medscape Article on Healthcare Workforce Projections by Mercer Consulting Firm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/09\/Medscape.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9741\" src=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/09\/Medscape-300x186.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercer.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mercer<\/a>, an American HR consulting firm, recently published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercer.com\/en-us\/insights\/talent-and-transformation\/attracting-and-retaining-talent\/future-of-the-us-healthcare-industry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> on the future of the U.S. healthcare industry, which projects that the American healthcare workforce will face a small shortfall in 2028 \u2014 a shortage of less than 1% of all employees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/team\/bianca-frogner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UW CHWS Director Bianca Frogner<\/a> was taken aback by the report&#8217;s projection of a 48,000 home health\/personal care aide national surplus. &#8220;We are seeing increasing movement of investments toward moving patients out of skilled nursing facilities and keeping them in the home and community, which requires many more home health aides,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Given such high turnover in this occupation, it&#8217;s hard to know if the surplus is really a surplus or if they will quickly be employed.&#8221; Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/wait-health-worker-surplus-workforce-report-projects-big-2024a1000g5i?=null&amp;icd=login_success_email_match_fpf&amp;form=fpf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":435,"featured_media":9741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9695"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9753,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695\/revisions\/9753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}