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A long predicted shortage across the continuum of nursing and direct care workers has come home to roost in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Shortages are rippling across the country fueled in part, experts say, by pandemic trauma and burnout.
The issue is critical in Western Pennsylvania.
In a region characterized by a rapidly graying population and a shrinking workforce, help wanted signs are popping up at private home care agencies, personal care homes, assisted living and nursing homes, community hospitals and sprawling academic and tertiary care hospitals.