Taking a break from who is hiring and who was hired, we rounded up some reading on the state of the healthcare workforce. Like many things in our lives for the few years the pandemic has taken a toll on it, the healthcare workforce might be on the top of the list of disruption. With 18% of healthcare workers having left their jobs and another 12% being laid off, what are the solutions for healthcare as a whole? You can’t open a paper, magazine, or watch news and not hear about the crisis that has evolved. Here are some insights and reports.
In the News
Dwyer Workforce Development Announces 9-State Expansion and Goal to Serve 100,000 Scholars by 2030 After Record Year
As the U.S. healthcare system continues to face a severe workforce shortage, Jack and Nancy Dwyer Workforce Development Center, Inc. (DWD), a national healthcare workforce development nonprofit, announced plans to expand into nine additional states in 2026—accelerating its mission to train and place the next generation of healthcare professionals while advancing its goal of serving 100,000 Dwyer Scholars by 2030. This national scaling follows a record-breaking year of growth and impact in 2025, during which DWD served 4,776 new Scholars, bringing its total impact to more than 11,000 Scholars served since September 2022.
CHG Healthcare Workforce Reduction Affects CompHealth, Weatherby Healthcare & More Business Units
CHG Healthcare, the parent company of CompHealth, Weatherby Healthcare, and Global Medical Staffing, conducted a workforce reduction on Friday, June 5, with public estimates suggesting the changes may have involved nearly 200 employees. In a social media post acknowledging the layoffs, CEO and President Leslie Snavely said the company had made some “tough restructuring decisions” and noted that the layoffs included professionals in administrative, marketing, finance and accounting, project management, software development, and leadership roles.
Advisory Board
‘The day of the 1.0 FTE is gone’: Health systems revamp their workforce strategies – Faced with growing financial and operational challenges, hospitals and health systems are looking for new ways to transform their workforce strategies to meet growing demands for care, expectations from workers, and more. In its 2026 Health Care Work Force Scan, the American Hospital Association (AHA) highlighted six pressures that will likely define hospitals and health systems’ workforce strategies over the coming years.
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Healthcare Executive
The Evolving Healthcare Workforce – By Karen Wagner – Historically, healthcare and technology have had a rocky relationship. Everything from high cost and hefty compliance to complicated workflows and user resistance have caused a slower rate of adoption compared with other industries such as banking, retail and manufacturing. But there’s something different about healthcare and artificial intelligence. Hospitals and health systems have been using AI to improve care for patients at the bedside, to answer patient questions and manage payer denials. What does this technology mean for the healthcare workforce? Change is definitely around the corner, if not already on the doorstep, at hospitals across the country. But that doesn’t mean anyone’s bidding farewell to the bedside nurse or revenue cycle specialist.
Capital Analytics Associates
Healthcare trends driving transformation in 2026 – By Pablo Marquez – The U.S. healthcare industry is undergoing significant transformation in 2026 as providers, payers, and technology companies respond to rising costs, workforce challenges, and evolving patient expectations. Several interconnected healthcare trends are reshaping how care is delivered, financed, and experienced across the industry’s ecosystem.
Revelio Labs
Healthcare Job Growth Is Propping Up the Labor Market. But Can it Last? – By Loujaina Abdelwahed – Hiring throughout the US economy has been falling since 2023 and into 2026. Retail, leisure, and manufacturing have shed hundreds of thousands of jobs. The headline employment-gains numbers, however, have stayed afloat thanks to one sector: Health Care and Social Assistance. If you have been following RPLS monthly releases, you would have noticed that the healthcare sector is adding new jobs to the economy every single month, acting as a buffer for total employment to not fall. Recently, using Revelio Labs data, along with BLS data, we take a deep dive into the healthcare hiring boom: what drives it, where the jobs are coming from, who is hiring, and what this boom means for the labor market going forward.
The Commonwealth Fund
U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective, 2026 – Countries around the world are grappling with the shared challenges of rising health care costs, physician burnout, and aging populations. Yet the United States has long been an outlier in several respects. The U.S., on average, has the poorest health outcomes of any high-income country, and among the poorest of the high- and middle-income nations belonging to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Lack of universal coverage, weak primary care infrastructure, high out-of-pocket costs, and a complex insurance system contribute to and exacerbate the nation’s uniquely poor performance relative to its peers.
NPR
The Future Of The American Healthcare Workforce – The U.S. is facing a steep healthcare worker shortage. A 2025 federal analysis projected that by 2038, 30 out of 35 physician specialties will be hurting for practitioners, with over 140,000 roles left unfilled. And for nurses, that shortage is projected to be over 108,000. And last week, 25 states plus the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit against the Department of Education over new federal student loan limits on graduate degrees. Those caps apply to programs that could graduate workers into these threatened health care fields.