Exhausted Connecticut health care workers seek long-awaited legislative relief
Training, recruiting and retaining medical staff is critical as Connecticut bleeds doctors and nurses.
Stay updated with breaking news from Charese Chery. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Training, recruiting and retaining medical staff is critical as Connecticut bleeds doctors and nurses.
Calls to shore up Connecticut’s health care workforce are getting louder, after the latest COVID variant placed heightened stress on the state’s nurses, physicians, behavioral specialists and other medical staff. Advocates and lawmakers say programs they’ve long pushed for — workforce training, medical school loan forgiveness, higher nurse-to-patient ratios, simpler license transfers from other states and medical liability insurance reform, to name a few — are all on the table heading into the Connecticut General Assembly’s regular session, which begins Feb. 9.
Training, recruiting and retaining medical staff is critical as Connecticut bleeds doctors and nurses.
Fallout from the pandemic, which has exhausted staffs and depleted resources across the state’s health care sector, could drive the change they’ve been seeking.