Unlocking Economic Benefits in Long-term Care Through Strategic Investment in Nursing

Chapter 9 excerpted from "The Economic Power of Care: Our Nurses. Our Future" published by the International Council of Nurses.  

$1-billion Gift Will Boost Workforce Diversity by Making Tuition Free

A $1-billion donation by former professor Ruth Gottesman to Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx will permit the school to waive student tuition — $63,000 per student per year — in perpetuity. The tuition waiver will enable local students and students from underrepresented groups to...

America's First Paramedics Were Black. Their Achievements Were Overlooked for Decades

Pictured: Freedom House Ambulance Service Group Photo, 1974 (photo courtesy of John Moon)

Strategies for Recruiting and Nurturing a Thriving Health Workforce

Recruiting, nurturing, and retaining staff is an increasingly greater challenge for providers of community health and social services. In an era of persistent labor shortages, insufficient resources, and soaring costs, organizations must adapt with greater flexibility, new approaches, and humility...

Announcing Our New Initiative to Strengthen California’s Health Workforce

California Needs Thousands of Nurses, but Leaders Can’t Agree on How to Fill Jobs

Affirmative Action: How Will Court Ruling Affect Medical School Diversity?

California’s experience after Proposition 209 offers some clues and lessons

Affirmative Action: How Will Court Ruling Affect Medical School Diversity?

California’s experience after Proposition 209 offers some clues and lessons

Dr. Sunita Mutha on California’s Primary Care Shortage

About a third of Californians live in areas where there is a shortage of primary care clinicians. The shortage is particularly acute in rural areas such as the Inland Empire, Northern California and the Sierras, and San Joaquin Valley. The rapidly growing Inland Empire has only 40 primary care...

First Primary Care Scorecard: What It Reveals and What Comes Next

Access to primary medical care is closely associated with better health outcomes for patients, fewer hospital visits, and longer life spans. Yet in the United States, primary care spending for all payers accounted for merely 4.6% to 12.1% of total health care expenditures, depending on how broadly...