Florida Workforce Projections
Key Findings:
- Florida’s hospitals have poured immense effort and resources into addressing workforce challenges. By partnering with educational institutions, implementing their own recruitment and retention strategies, and collaborating
with policymakers on statewide funding initiatives, hospitals are all in to tackle this crisis.
- Due to increased regional partnerships, hospital-led retention efforts, and sound public policy, turnover & vacancy rates have significantly improved for nurses and allied health professions at Florida hospitals in 2023.
- Even though Florida’s hospital workforce is rebounding from previous years, we still need the targeted focus of industry stakeholders and policymakers to continue to combat the workforce shortage long into the future
Read FHA's full press release: Florida Hospitals’ Strategic Investments Are Effectively Strengthening Health Care Workforce
2023 FHA Workforce Report
After more than three years of responding to an unprecedented public health crisis, Florida’s hospitals experienced one of the worst workforce shortages in decades. This shortage and associated increases in labor costs occurred at the same time as stagnant reimbursement rates, reductions in reserves due to stock market declines, and other inflationary cost increases. Florida’s population is growing by more than 800 people a day, more than half of whom are over the age of 60, creating an increased demand for health care services.
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2023 Vacancy and Turnover Handout
Florida’s Hospital Nurse Vacancy and Turnover Rates are Lower Than the Nation, Decreasing 38% from 2022 to 2023 mid State’s Critical Workforce Shortages
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Florida Nurse Workforce Projections – 2035
The Florida Hospital Association and the Safety Net Hospital Alliance of Florida engaged IHS Markit to develop projections of future supply and demand for registered nurses (RNs), licensed practical nurses (LPNs), advanced practices nurses (APRNs), and physicians in the state. This report presents findings on the RN and LPN workforces; a companion report presents findings on the physician and APRN workforces. Projected nurse supply is compared to projected demand to determine base year (2019) and projected future adequacy of nurse supply through 2035.
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