Recruitment and Retention of a High-Quality Healthcare Workforce
English
RAND Health
RAND Health Working Paper Series
2005
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Functioning health services are key to making the community of New Orleans livable again. Conversely, a livable community is key to attracting a stable healthcare workforce to New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina forced the entire healthcare workforce to evacuate the City of New Orleans and a large majority of these workers have since found jobs elsewhere, such as in neighboring parishes and Texas. This brief summarizes policy options to create and maintain a healthcare workforce, as well as options to bridge the transition from the current situation to the point at which the interventions will show an effect. It focuses on nurses as the largest professional group but the recommendations can be applied to other professions as well. [adapted from authors]
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Geographic Focus
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