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Hamilton hospitals down 675 employees amid record-high health-care worker shortages
Hamilton’s health-care system ‘is in a very precarious position,’ executive vice president of HHS says
CBC News · Posted: Jul 22, 2022 9:15 AM ET | Last Updated: 6 hours ago
Hamilton's two hospital organizations, Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) and St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton (SJHH), need 675 new employees to address the current workforce shortage.
In a joint news release, the two organizations warned that service impacts and increasingly high wait times are likely to be an ongoing reality for Hamilton's hospitals as record-high health-care worker and physician shortages persist across Ontario and Canada, and as the predicted seventh wave of COVID-19 arrives earlier than expected.
According to the hospitals, despite aggressive recruitment efforts, the number of qualified applicants is often not enough to fill vacancies.
"Every day, we're caring for more patients than our staff have the capacity to care for," said Sharon Pierson, executive vice president, clinical operations and chief operating officer at HHS.
"Hamilton's health-care system, like all hospitals in the province, is in a very precarious position. Our ability to push onward is made possible by our people's valiant commitment to our patients, and for their sake we're doing all we can do to bring some relief to our highly pressured situation."
The hospitals says staffing shortages are further exacerbated by a rise in the number of staff and physicians in self-isolation due to COVID, and a much higher number of staff off ill than usual...
Hamilton hospitals down 675 employees amid record-high health-care worker shortages
Hamilton’s health-care system ‘is in a very precarious position,’ executive vice president of HHS says
CBC News · Posted: Jul 22, 2022 9:15 AM ET | Last Updated: 6 hours ago
Hamilton's two hospital organizations, Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) and St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton (SJHH), need 675 new employees to address the current workforce shortage.
In a joint news release, the two organizations warned that service impacts and increasingly high wait times are likely to be an ongoing reality for Hamilton's hospitals as record-high health-care worker and physician shortages persist across Ontario and Canada, and as the predicted seventh wave of COVID-19 arrives earlier than expected.
According to the hospitals, despite aggressive recruitment efforts, the number of qualified applicants is often not enough to fill vacancies.
"Every day, we're caring for more patients than our staff have the capacity to care for," said Sharon Pierson, executive vice president, clinical operations and chief operating officer at HHS.
"Hamilton's health-care system, like all hospitals in the province, is in a very precarious position. Our ability to push onward is made possible by our people's valiant commitment to our patients, and for their sake we're doing all we can do to bring some relief to our highly pressured situation."
The hospitals says staffing shortages are further exacerbated by a rise in the number of staff and physicians in self-isolation due to COVID, and a much higher number of staff off ill than usual...