Mississippi hospitals are indicating they'll have to close floors and reduce available patient beds if they don’t find a way to combat nursing shortages getting worse by the week. The state, acting through the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, had found money to hire 900 nurses during the latest COVID-19 wave. But funding is about to end. At Singing River Health System in Pascagoula, it's translating into the loss of some 70 nurses, and 100 hospital beds. Hospitals indicate nurse companies are poaching their nurses. Some have left due to stress. Replacements aren’t filling the gaps. Nursing companies are offering up to five times more than non-profit hospitals. Recruiting companies are snatching nurses to fill COVID hot spots throughout the nation. (Source: Sun Herald 10/31/21) Mississippi Gulf Coast hospitals struggle with nurse shortage | Biloxi Sun Herald NOTE: State-funded contracts of over 900 health care workers brought in by Mississippi's governor to support overcrowded and understaffed hospitals during the Delta surge of COVID-19 expired Sunday. Mississippi's state-funded health care workers' contracts to expire (clarionledger.com)
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