Workforce Shortages-Force Shortage In Health Care
The enactment of ACA has posed new stresses on the healthcare infrastructure— one that has already had workforce shortages for years and ill-prepared to effectively meet the high influx of patients to provide quality care. The shift in demographics and an increase of new patients receiving coverage, requires the healthcare industry have a different kind of leadership model. Workforce shortages force healthcare leaders to invent methods to efficiently use limited personnel to meet drastically increased demands. It requires less reliance on those with only medical backgrounds, and require more from those from the business world— a profound shift in management and leadership styles and techniques. Healthcare leaders are forced to deal with issues