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Louisville, KY: County Fire Departments cite high fuel prices and staff issues as primary reasons to stop 'automatic aid' of Louisville Metro Emergency Medical Services. As stated this week in the Courier-Journal (Louisville's daily newspaper) Most of the fire departments in the county service area (about two thirds of the county) have stopped responding to all but the most serious of runs.

Medical-assistant programs grow amid health personnel shortage ~ Pacific Business News (Honolulu) - by Kristen Sawada Pacific Business News [Friday, December 27, 2002]: "With the nursing shortage we have in Hawaii there's also a shortage of other allied health professionals, which is where medical-assisting students come in," said Terry Cyr, program coordinator. "It's projected by the year 2010 there'll be an increase [in the need] for medical assistants of 57 percent from where we are now."

Fewer Physicians, More Non-Physician Clinicians Providing Health Care: Investigators found that the number of physicians nationally is not keeping up with population growth, leading to a potential shortage of 20 percent (or 200,000) in the needed workforce of physicians by 2020 or 2025. They expect the number of non-physician clinicians in 10 disciplines whose services most overlap those of physicians to increase by two-thirds from 228,000 in 1995 to 384,000 in 2005, and increase with similar growth rates in the years thereafter. Primary care disciplines have the greatest projected growth.

Taking the Helm at the New Center to Champion Nursing in America ~ After a career that has touched on almost every aspect of nursing, Susan Reinhard now will work to champion nursing and help reverse a nursing shortage in the United States. A shortage of more than 1 million nurses in the United States is projected by 2020. This stems from a combination of factors: the aging of the nursing workforce, nurses leaving the profession and a shortage of new nurses entering the profession.

Congress challenged to resolve severe medical lab personnel shortage ~ Medical Laboratory Observer, Jan, 2004 by Jesse L. Jackson, John Shimkusz: The United States faces a severe, problematic shortage of qualified laboratory personnel. Many rural areas and smaller hospitals find recruiting and retaining qualified laboratory personnel more and more troublesome. According to the American Society for Clinical Pathology, half of all laboratories report difficulties hiring new testing personnel. Because of our concern for our nation's abilities to meet laboratory testing needs, we have introduced the Medical Laboratory Personnel Shortage Act. See also: H.R. 1175 [109th]: Medical Laboratory Personnel Shortage Act of 2005

Shortage of medical personnel threatens plans to stop a potential flu pandemic, U.S. official warns: A leader at the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention told a Washington conference that the world simply needs more doctors and nurses if it hopes to prepare adequately for a potential flu pandemic. "No matter how good the medical technology is, if we don't have healthcare workers to care for sick people and hospital beds to put them in, it's not a good situation," he said.

A shortage of food supply veterinarians is putting our nation at risk: Around the turn of the 19th century, virtually every veterinarian was a food supply veterinarian. Today, only about 17 percent of veterinarians work in food supply, which includes private and public practice veterinarians involved in the entire food chain from farm to fork. Research forecasts a shortfall of four percent to five percent per year in the ranks of food supply veterinarians.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Gives AARP Foundation $10 Million for New Center to Address the Nursing Workforce Crisis Threatening Patient Care [December 06, 2007] ~ Center to Champion Nursing in America established to help reverse looming 1.1-million nurse workforce shortage. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) today announced an effort to address the 1.1-million nurse workforce shortage crisis that is currently poised to strike America’s health care system by 2020.

Two Policy Briefs Outline Nursing Shortage Issues ~ From 2003 to 2006, staff at Spann Communications, a Pittsburgh communications consulting firm, developed and distributed two eight-page policy briefs as part of a series entitled Charting Nursing's Future. The briefs are designed to educate state policy leaders and others about the full extent of the nursing shortage and its underlying causes.

The Nursing Faculty Shortage: A Crisis for Health Care ~ The nursing faculty shortage has a critical impact on the overall nurse staffing shortage. This paper examines the factors that contribute to the faculty shortage, reviews previous interventions and outlines recommendations.

Part 1: The Nursing Shortage, By the Numbers ~ Edward O’Neil, M.P.A., Ph.D., F.A.A.N., is the director of the Center for Health Professions at the University of California at San Francisco. The Center houses the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program, an advanced leadership program for nurses in senior executive roles in health services, public health and nursing education who aspire to help lead and shape the U.S. health care system of the future. In the first of a two-part Q&A, O’Neil presents an overview of the current state of the nursing shortage. See also: Part 2

Americans' Views of Nursing Care By: Burbank-Schmitt E ~ Most Americans believe a nursing shortage exists and that overwork, stress or fatigue of nurses a major reason for poor-quality care, according to a September 2005 public opinion survey conducted by RWJF and researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health conducted a public opinion survey.

Shortage of medical personnel becomes more acute ~ Tim Lougheed [Friday, June 23, 2000]: Canadian emergency-room physicians now find themselves on call for gruelling, 36-hour shifts because there are simply not enough doctors to go around. Quite apart from the obvious risks to a patient being treated by an exhausted doctor or nurse, the situation is hard on the morale of these professionals and may lead many of them to retire earlier than they had planned.

Junior doctor shortage worsens [Sunday, 15 October 2006] National Party Health Spokesman ~ Junior doctor shortage worsens. Hospitals around the country are facing huge increases in the cost of locums as the shortage of junior doctors worsens, says National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall. "Not only is the country facing a GP shortage, there's now a very real risk that many of our hospitals will not have enough house surgeons,” says Mr Ryall.

Acute shortage of trained medical personnel in rural India [Thursday, November 22, 2007] ~ India's rural poor may soon have to rely on divine intervention to help them recover from illness as the health centres supposed to serve them run critically short of trained staff. The country's 22,669 primary health centres, the first port of call for the sick in rural areas, are a sorry picture, thanks to an acute shortage of trained medical personnel.

Securing Medical Personnel: Case Studies of Two Source Countries and Two Destination Countries: A shortage of medical personnel has become a critical problem for developing countries attempting to expand the provision of medical services for the poor. In order to highlight the driving forces determining the international allocation of medical personnel, the cases of four countries, namely the Philippines and South Africa as source countries and Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom as destination countries, are examined. The paper concludes that changes in demand generated in major destination countries determine the international allocation of medical personnel at least in the short run. Major destination countries often alter their policies on how many medical staff they can accept, and from where, while source countries are required to make appropriate responses to the changes in demand.

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