Human Resource Issues Affecting Health Care Delivery: Workforce Shortages, Increasing Need for Services & New Technologies

OPEN MINDS The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst Executive Briefing Recently, we’ve been seeing a lot of headlines about workforce shortages in the health care field—from physicians, to administrators, to home health care workers. And with an aging population that requires more services, and health care reform making services available to a larger percentage of the population, we can only expect that the demand for health care professionals will continue to grow. However, as the need for health care services has grown, so has the availability of technologies and innovations that make the need for health . . .