Pennsylvania has deployed its first pandemic 'strike team' of out-of-state health care workers to a suburban Philadelphia hospital under severe strain from COVID-19.
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The state’s Department of Health recently contracted with GHR Healthcare to supply health care workers for temporary assignment to hospitals in need of staffing assistance. The program opened last week and has received three such requests so far, said Acting Secretary of Health Keara Klinepeter.“Workers are tired and they deserve a break, and so that’s what we’re really here to do,” she said at a news conference at Grand View.
The highly transmissible omicron variant of the coronavirus has spread rapidly across the state and the nation since last month, leading to record-shattering numbers of confirmed infections and hospitalizations. Many Pennsylvania hospitals are deluged with patients at the same time they are struggling with staffing shortages.
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