Bridge Michigan, 9/13/2021
But she’s now facing a fourth wave of COVID amid a continuing shortage of staff and stacks of critically ill patients who refused to be vaccinated. Most nurses she worked with at the start of the pandemic are gone, she said, some to other nursing jobs or other hospitals ─ and one who left the medical field entirely.
“I haven’t burned out yet,” Rasch told Bridge Michigan. “But I’m not saying it’s not coming down the road.”
Michigan health leaders say the pandemic has deepened staff shortages that had been underway for years at hospitals across the state, particularly among nurses and other frontline workers. As a stopgap, hospitals are paying big bucks to traveling nurses to help care for the patients repopulating COVID wards. Many in the industry say the shortage will be felt for years
More than half of Michigan's 83 counties are at extremely high risk for Covid spread.
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