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In a guest column, a nurse from Winter Springs details the steps AdventHealth and other medical institutions are taking to recruit more staff.
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In a guest column, a nurse from Winter Springs details the steps AdventHealth and other medical institutions are taking to recruit more staff.
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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.