The Kentucky Hospital Association’s annual Workforce Survey Report says Kentucky suffers from an “acute shortage” of healthcare workers, with nearly 13,000 job vacancies in hospitals across the state at the end of 2022.
“While the shortage of health-care workers is nationwide, it has hit the commonwealth especially hard, and KHA is working with multiple partners to find ways to address the challenges,” KHA President and Chief Executive Officer Nancy Galvagni said in a news release.
The KHA Workforce Survey Report provides an in-depth look at the non-physician hospital workforce in Kentucky. It found that Kentucky had a 15% vacancy rate among that workforce in 2022.
The legislature has to stop talking about problems and start addressing them. We are talking about people’s health and well-being!
