COVID’s cost for South Dakota health care: staff shortages, burnout

January 20, 2022 Sharika Soukup

Health care workers at local hospitals are saying that as more COVID-19 patients continue to flood into their intensive care units and emergency rooms, it’s becoming increasingly harder for staff to continue on like they have for the past two years. The Argus Leader spoke to care providers at Avera Health and Sanford Health in…

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North Dakota Health Department seeks to augment health care workforce, citing ‘unprecedented need’ | Health

October 24, 2021 Sharika Soukup

North Dakota’s Health Department on Monday urged volunteers and people with medical experience to join the health care workforce due to what it called an “unprecedented staffing need.” Active cases of COVID-19 in North Dakota have dropped to the lowest level in a month and the average test positivity rate appears to have started on…

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