Medical facilities find ways to address staffing shortages

MOSES LAKE — Whether the hospital is big or small, public or private, the challenge is the same. “The workforce shortage exists everywhere, and it’s in every discipline, and they’re all critically important to the hospital,” said John White, chief executive officer at Mid-Valley Hospital in Omak. “For Sacred Heart, I think a lot of people have the idea that because we’re larger, because a lot of people view us as the desired place to work, especially for nurses straight out of school, that our workforce challenges might be less than other hospitals,” said Neil Christopher Apeles, chief nursing officer for Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center, Spokane. ”And unfortunately that’s not true.”