Monday, January 10, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
Dear John, As a reminder, we recently rebranded our Health Affairs Blog to Health Affairs Forefront. Read the latest article here.
Nursing Employment And Education
In the January 2022 issue of Health Affairs, Peter Buerhaus and coauthors examined health care employment during the COVID-19 pandemic and found unprecedented declines in the early months, most intensely in physician offices, outpatient care centers, and home health care.
While employment in most sectors gradually returned toward prepandemic levels over the course of 2020, fifteen months into the pandemic, "total employment in nursing
homes remained 13.2 percent lower than it had been in February 2020."
With an aim to increase the supply of advanced practice nurses, particularly in primary care, the Affordable Care Act Graduate Nurse Education Demonstration provided federal funding to offset the clinical training costs of advanced practice nurses from 2012 to 2018.
Joshua Porat-Dahlerbruch and coauthors reported that the program was "associated with a significant average increase of twenty-eight nurse practitioner graduates and eighty-nine nurse practitioner enrollees per school of nursing throughout the Demonstration
period."
Today in Health Affairs Forefront, Richard Gilfillan and coauthors discuss
how Medicare Advantage leaders have an opportunity to move excess spending out of health care and into needed social services.
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