The Denver Business Journal (8/20, Subscription Publication) reports that as more people gain health insurance under the ACA, “hospitals, health clinics and physicians’ practices all are dealing with a hiring crunch as they try to staff up and take care of the new flow of customers.” The “various sectors” are offering new incentives as they compete against each other for advanced-practice nurses, primary care physicians, and physician assistants. Community health clinics, for example, “are offering participation in government-backed educational-loan repayment programs and paying competitive wages with deeper-pocketed hospitals.” Rural hospitals, meanwhile, “are wooing providers with bonuses, while urban hospitals have a new tendency with specialty nurses in particular to offer to repay student debt.”
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