North Dakota Working To Address Health Care Worker Shortage
Published by gwen September 29th, 2008 in Wellness.According to this Public News Service article, North Dakota is working to address a health care worker shortage. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has given a $1.2 million grant to University of ND to fund Area Health Care Education Centers to help train new healthcare workers in local communities.
What a great idea for a mostly-rural state.
With so many baby boomers about to retire and a great number of geriatric patients already, it’s nice to see that ND is being proactive about this issue. UND is a great vehicle for this.
The STATE is giving a grant to train health care workers? Hey wake up guys! The state wouldn’t have to give any grants if health care were an industry that paid well and had decent working conditions! These bureaucrats would do well to spend a week volunteering in the guts of a hospital or nursing home to see and smell what these workers have to put up with for the teensy salary they get.
The solution to any worker shortage is higher wages and better working conditions. NOT GRANTS. That short-term bandaid gets ripped off very easily and with a lot of pain!