Staffing agencies, which have deployed thousands of healthcare workers in recent weeks to jobs at hospitals in New York City and other areas hit hard by the coronavirus, say some of those temporary workers are no longer needed.
FILE PHOTO: An ambulance arrives at the emergency entrance outside Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in New York City, New York, U.S., April 13, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo
Demand for “travel nurses” jumped during March and early April in cities like New Orleans, and especially New York, which saw the nation’s largest spike in cases of COVID-19, the deadly respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus. She said Trusted Health had “multiple nurses who left their families and in some cases full-time jobs,” to travel to New York, only to find that they were no longer needed.
“Every day I am here I am losing money,” she said. “It’s disappointing because I came out here with the intention to help but unfortunately things didn’t pan out.”Northwell Health, a 23-hospital system in New York, said it was still hiring temporary nurses, and planned to bring in about 100 next week.
Those efforts are separate from the short-term employment contracts facilitated by agencies like Aya and Trusted Health, which routinely operate to provide hospitals with licensed professionals to fill short-term staffing needs.
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