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Baptist Memorial Hospital offers new incentive to potential nursing hires
Baptist Memorial Hospital is giving new nursing hires a $5,000 signing bonus to help with the nursing shortage during the pandemic.
Posted: Jan 6, 2021 7:44 PM
Updated: Jan 6, 2021 7:45 PM
Posted By: Rhea Thornton
COLUMBUS, Miss. (WTVA) - The Baptist Memorial Hospital Golden Triangle is giving nurses that meet a certain criteria a $5,000 signing bonus as a way to combat the nursing shortage in north Mississippi during this pandemic.
Johnny Judson is the nurse recruiter at Baptist. He said the hospital is being very competitive to find the best health care workers by providing added benefits.
Mississippi hospital offering $5k bonus for nurses
January 3, 2021 GMT
COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi hospital is offering $5,000 bonuses for qualified nurses as it works to recruit staff during a pandemic and at a time when healthcare workers are in short supply.
WCBI reports that Baptist Memorial Hospital - Golden Triangle is offering a number of incentives including the bonus as it works to recruit amidst a nationwide nursing shortage. Johnny Judson is responsible for recruiting nurses for the hospital.
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“I am literally in every school, nursing school, in the area, including along the Alabama boarder,” he told the station. “I go up to north Mississippi, south Mississippi and I go to these nursing schools and I talk to these students.”