HRSA To Congress: Hike Funding For Workforce Programs

Health Resources and Services Administration Administrator Carole Johnson urged lawmakers to preserve critical workforce programs that fund clinical training settings, forgive student loans and increase pipelines of health care workers in rural and underserved areas by supporting funding increases proposed in President Joe Biden’s budget request for fiscal 2024. The health care industry is grappling with staggering shortages of physicians, nurses, public health workers, Medicaid program staffers and direct care staff , an issue that has plagued certain sectors for...