Hospitals Say They Can’t Afford to Pay Nurses More. Their Spending Priorities Tell a Different Story.
Nurses hear the same explanation year after year: there just isn’t enough money. Hospital leaders point to shrinking reimbursements, rising operating costs, and tight budgets as reasons they cannot increase nurses’ salaries. Yet many of these same hospital systems pay their CEOs and executive leadership teams millions of dollars in salaries, bonuses, and other compensation. It raises a simple but […]
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