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Bram Sable-Smith

Small hospital staffing wars

EMTs rush a patient to the emergency room at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on March 24, 2020, as the number of confirmed Massachusetts cases of coronavirus soars to near 5,000. Stan Grossfeld/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

A recent lawsuit filed by one Wisconsin health system that temporarily prevented seven workers from starting new jobs at a different health network raised eyebrows, including those of Brock Slabach, chief operations officer of the National Rural Health Association.

"To me, that signifies the desperation that hospital leaders are facing in trying to staff their hospitals," said Slabach.

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