DENVER (KDVR) — Pandemic pressures appear to have taken a toll on public well being governance.
Well being employees are leaving their subject throughout Colorado from a mixture of pandemic pressures together with burnout, the lure of upper pay and vaccination mandates.
Based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data, there have been 589,000 well being and social employees who’ve left their jobs nationwide in September, the best in 20 years.
Pressures have been consuming away at extra than simply medical employees. Based on the Colorado Affiliation of Native Public Well being Officers, there have been 22 resignations from Colorado’s 53 native public well being businesses.
Whereas there have been some resignations within the Denver metro space, a lot of the administrators left their positions in rural native public well being businesses.
Resignations embody the administrators in Alamosa, Baca, Bent, Boulder, Clear Creek, Costilla, Custer, Fremont, Grand, Jackson, Jefferson, Package Carson, Lincoln, Pitkin, Rio Grande, Routt, Saguache, Teller and Weld counties.
