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Some hospitals in Southern California have a nurse vacancy rate of 30%, stressing overworked staff and causing some to leave the industry earlier than they planned.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the number of nurses at the hospital dropped. According to the Hospital Association of Southern California, nursing vacancy rates among local hospitals exceed 30%.

Some hospitals in Southern California have a nurse vacancy rate of 30%, stressing overworked staff and causing some to leave the industry earlier than they planned.

Ashley Hooks always planned to retire at Lakewood Regional Medical Center, where she has been a nurse for 12 years. But now, Hooks said, staffing...

The exodus of experienced nurses, together with the lack of skills among fresh nursing graduates, are a wake-up call for significant action to save the hemorrhaging industry, said the council.

Union leaders say the tentative agreement ending the strike will relieve chronic short staffing and boost pay by 19% over three years.

WASHINGTON -- Problems are mounting at hospitals across the nation as they try to deal with widespread staffing shortages, overworked nurses beaten down by the pandemic and a busted pipeline of new nurses. This has resulted in situations such as Mississippi, which doesnt have the medical workforce to address a wide range of poor health outcomes, from high rates of maternal and infant mortality to severe cases of diabetes that require the amputation of limbs, the states top health officer said.

Even as 7,000 nurses return to work at two of New York’s busiest hospitals after a three-day strike, colleagues around the country say it’s just a matter

Nurses around the country say it’s just a matter of time before frontline workers at other hospitals begin walking the picket line.