Leveraging analytics to navigate the healthcare workforce crisis

The healthcare industry continues to face persistent and extraordinary challenges, including financial strain, burnout, and talent shortages. Transformation of how care is delivered, how people work and work together within healthcare is destined for significant change. Workforce issues underlie all these challenges.

A new optimization approach to workforce strategy

We project a nationwide shortage of 100,000 critical healthcare workers by 2028

Our report, Future of the U.S. Healthcare Industry: Labor market projections by 2028, explores the critical issue of healthcare worker shortages in the US, offering a comprehensive review of data to estimate future shortages or surpluses and recommendations for addressing these gaps. Although the projected shortages have improved since we last did the analysis in 2021, the shortages remain widespread across many geographies and key roles but vary by state and across states.

Read the executive summary for more details or download the full report and view the interactive map.

Recognizing the potential for deficits and surpluses in talent in specific talent markets can help healthcare organizations prepare and think strategically about their talent acquisition and retention practices. Healthcare organizations that want to stay competitive must employ rigorous analytics to understand what talent they will need, when they will need it, and where they will find it.

Mercer is uniquely positioned to help healthcare organizations tackle what is likely their greatest workforce challenge – talent supply.

Leveraging advanced analytics to solve healthcare staffing challenges

  • Understanding costly employee churn
  • Create capacity by optimizing the workforce
  • Redesign roles and work to emphasize efficiency
Mercer’s healthcare workforce optimization harnesses the power of AI to help close the gap between healthcare workforce labor supply and demand.

Listen to our podcast on healthcare labor market projections

Explore our entire Healthcare Insights Podcast Series on  Spotify or Apple  as we highlight key developments and work we’re seeing done in healthcare to address the pervasive workforce challenges – talent shortages, burnout, workplace violence, dwindling financial margins and more. This series focuses on real solutions and the associated risks of action or inaction from the industry.
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