Healthcare

A quality job doesn’t just provide a paycheck, it offers workers a pathway to growth and career advancement. One of the key attributes of a quality job is the opportunity for employees to build [...]

Over the past year, Workforce Southwest Washington has been making a significant impact on the local healthcare sector, investing an $800K grant to train and place individuals in high-demand [...]

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare industry faces challenges with retention, burnout and staffing shortages. Long-term care workers in the Portland-Southwest Washington [...]

With more than 120,000 jobs and a payroll over $10 billion, healthcare accounts for 10% of the Southwest Washington-Portland metro area’s private-sector employment and 10% of payroll. The [...]

Historically, women in the workforce have faced disparities in employment, wages and leadership attainment. The COVID-19 pandemic of the past two years has exacerbated these preexisting [...]

COVID-19 has disrupted the practice and delivery of healthcare prompting unprecedented improvements related to the health and safety of workers and patients. While these advances are worth [...]

Despite the substantial impacts of COVID-19, the healthcare sector in Southwest Washington is recovering and quickly normalizing as businesses continue to open, unemployed workers go back to work [...]

Healthcare has long been considered a recession-proof industry, but no industry is COVID-19 proof. While the healthcare industry was impacted by unemployment due to the crisis, it continues to be [...]

Things are changing daily, from phased reopening to increasing numbers of people contracting COVID-19, to the order on June 26 making mask-wearing mandatory when unable to physically distance [...]

As Governor Inslee’s Reopening Washington Plan enters its second week and we look forward to Phase 2, business and community partners are strategizing and developing plans to re-open while also [...]