Major Losses Recorded In Women’s Health Care Jobs
Limitations on safe and affordable child care during the pandemic, a study says, is the likely cause. News is on the death of a pioneering Black public health nurse and more.
Modern Healthcare:
Half A Million Fewer Women Remain In Healthcare Workforce Amid Pandemic, Study Finds
The number of healthcare jobs held by women has not yet recovered from the massive losses the industry took in the beginning of the pandemic, a recent study finds. As many as 530,000, or 3.8%, fewer healthcare jobs were held by women in October compared to February, according to a study by Altarum, a not-for-profit health research and consulting organization. There were about 36,000, or 1.2%, fewer healthcare jobs for men, who typically make up a significantly smaller segment of the healthcare workforce. (Christ, 1/6)
Charlotte Observer:
Charlotte’s Thereasea Elder, Pioneer Black Nurse, Dies At 93
Thereasea Clark Elder, Charlotte’s first Black public health nurse, died at the age of 93 on Tuesday. Elder — best known and revered for her work as a nurse who integrated Mecklenburg County’s Public Health Department — was born in 1927 in Lancaster, South Carolina and attended school in Charlotte. According to a history website from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library, Elder was raised on Hamilton Street in Charlotte’s Greenville neighborhood, along with five other children born to Booker T. and Odessa Clark. (Bose, 1/6)
Crain's Detroit Business:
Beaumont's New Anesthesia Model In Place At Additional Hospitals
Irving, Texas-based NorthStar Anesthesia has taken over anesthesia services at Beaumont Health's three northern hospitals in Royal Oak, Troy and Grosse Pointe and associated ambulatory surgery centers and pain clinics, a move that angered some anesthesia nurses, surgeons and physicians when the contract was announced last summer. With the consolidated contract, which began Jan. 1, NorthStar now offers comprehensive anesthesia services to seven of Beaumont's eight hospitals. Last August, NorthStar started managing anesthesia services at Beaumont's Dearborn, Taylor, Trenton and Wayne hospitals and their associated ambulatory surgery centers and pain clinics. (Greene, 1/6)
