Capitol Weekly Podcast

SPECIAL EPISODE: WOMEN'S HEATH - Women in the Health Care Workforce

Episode Summary

This Special Episode of the Capitol Weekly Podcast was recorded live at Capitol Weekly’s Conference on Women’s Health which was held on Thursday, September 28, 2023 This is Panel 3 – Women in the Health Care Workforce California faces a significant shortfall of healthcare staffing: nursing vacancy rates among local hospitals are over 30%. And the need for home healthcare workers is predicted to explode as the state’s population ages. Women dominate both those professions, but make up just 38% of doctors in California. How can we better prepare women for professions in healthcare? PANELISTS: Melissa D. Bauman, Ph.D., UC Davis Health Women in Medicine and Health Sciences; Beth Malinowski, SEIU California; Sunita Mutha, M.D., Healthforce Center at UCSF; Tanya W. Spirtos, M.D., California Medical Association Moderated by Angela Hart, KFF Health News A full transcript of this discussion may be found at: https://capitolweekly.net/womens-health-women-in-the-health-care-workforce/

Episode Notes

This Special Episode of the Capitol Weekly Podcast was recorded live at Capitol Weekly’s Conference on Women’s Health which was held on Thursday, September 28, 2023 

This is Panel 3 – Women in the Health Care Workforce

California faces a significant shortfall of healthcare staffing: nursing vacancy rates among local hospitals are over 30%. And the need for home healthcare workers is predicted to explode as the state’s population ages. Women dominate both those professions, but make up just 38% of doctors in California. How can we better prepare women for professions in healthcare?

PANELISTS: Melissa D. Bauman, Ph.D., UC Davis Health Women in Medicine and Health Sciences; Beth Malinowski, SEIU California; Sunita Mutha, M.D., Healthforce Center at UCSF; Tanya W. Spirtos, M.D., California Medical Association

Moderated by Angela Hart, KFF Health News

A full transcript of this discussion may be found at: https://capitolweekly.net/womens-health-women-in-the-health-care-workforce/