Hospital grapples with security and recruitment
Rutland Herald
Rutland Regional Medical Center is working to hire more staff and keep them safer once they’re on the job, hospital leadership said this week.
RRMC held its annual meeting in the hospital’s Leahy Conference Room on Wednesday — the first time since the pandemic that the meeting has been held in-person. A staffing gap was listed as one of the chief challenges before the hospital, and workplace safety was listed as a factor in staff retention and as one of the other challenges facing the organization in general.
Judi Fox, who stepped in as interim CEO after the resignation of Claudio Fort, said the need for services last year was “extremely high,” first with the omicron variant of COVID-19 dominating hospitalizations and then with patients showing up looking for care that had been postponed during the pandemic.