With little backup and COVID spread, Florida hospitals could feel staffing squeeze soon
With little backup and COVID spread, Florida hospitals could feel staffing squeeze soon Samantha J. Gross, The Miami Herald Jan. 21—At the height of Florida's summer COVID surge, Miami hospitals had to enlist out-of-state travel nurses to keep their intensive care units running. Now, nearly a half-year past that crisis point, hospitals are once again nervously eyeing a number of factors that could increase spread and hospitalizations — this time, without any reinforcements to call on. Worrying hospital leaders: the combination of post-holiday infection surges, seasonal bum...