Nimble In Knowledge & Talent: The Re-Skilling Imperative

From my perspective, the post-pandemic workforce challenges faced by specialty provider organizations fall into two categories. First, there is widespread difficulty in hiring and retaining staff for all positions (i.e., the workforce shortage), and second, the staff that are hired have a talent deficit. We are all familiar with the workforce shortage and how competition for employees is raising workforce expenses. The average salary for prescribers at specialty provider organizations is $221,000, and the median salary for licensed master-level therapists is roughly $70,000. Direct service providers in group home settings have a median salary of . . .