From Understanding to Action

Published on August 4, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has shined a light on long-festering problems in our health system. It is not a pretty picture: from racial and ethnic health disparities; to the low wages and minimal benefits of the long-term care and home-care workforce (who often have to work more than one job to get by and may have no sick leave or healthcare coverage); to the maldistribution of our health workforce, especially in rural areas; to the hyperdependence of hospitals on elective procedures for their financial sustainability; to staff burnout; to racism in our workplaces; to poor crisis preparedness and the ensuing lack of personal protective equipment in hospitals; and ultimately to the tragic shortages of critical care staff as hospitalizations surged around the country.

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