Within the 2021-2022 fiscal year, Vitalité Health Network lost 499 healthcare workers. Their average age was 37. Of those, 152 were nurses with an average age was 34. The majority left because of heavy workloads and low morale. At Horizon, over 600 healthcare workers left the health authority since Apr. 1. This includes 390 resignations and workers who left for reasons other than retirements. Of those, 188 are RNs. Horizon's CEO says the health network’s implementing actions to ease pressures facing EDs. She called it a "system issue" and says a reduction in staffing contributed to patient flow issues. Horizon’s also looking into initiatives to lessen the workload on nursing staff and working with a local company to improve processing of patients. For its part, Vitalité presented its major priorities, which include:
- Patient experience and organizational performance: To improve the organization’s performance through a learning culture and a continuous improvement approach to the benefit patients;
- Employee experience: To provide an environment that supports, values and engages staff members; and
- Community engagement: To encourage community engagement to better serve and meet the needs of patients.
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