Health-care workers in New York could get up to $3,000 in bonuses under a state program launched Wednesday aimed at increasing the workforce by 20% over five years.
The program comes as the coronavirus pandemic exacerbates the national nursing shortage and Covid burnout drives health-care workers to quit en masse.
The Health Care and Mental Hygiene Worker Bonus program, included in the budget enacted in April, allocates $1.3 billion for worker-retention bonuses to address staffing shortages.
Nurses, pharmacists, dentists, and other public and private health-care workers qualify if they make $125,000 annually or less and remain in their positions ...
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