Rural areas have been hit particularly hard–the job vacancy rate in Missouri hospitals, which was over 20% in 2021 and is heading toward 25% this year.
The shortage of health care workers in the United States is becoming more dire by the day. The National Academy for State Health Policy, a nonpartisan forum of state health policymakers, notes that governors of at least 20 states have made the increasing lack of health care workers a focal point of their recent state of the state speeches. They've called for a variety of policy fixes — from improving recruitment efforts, easing licensing requirements, and boosting training programs to increasing compensation.
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