New commission plans to address state healthcare worker shortage

California rules would require site-specific assessments to identify violence risks for health care workers and plans to mitigate them.

On Wednesday the California Future Health Workforce commission was unveiled, to address California’s healthcare worker shortage.

There's a shortage of healthcare workers in California and it's projected to get even worse.

That's because the state's population will boom just as doctors and their staffs are retiring.

By 2025, California will be short 4,700 primary care doctors according to a UC-San Francisco report. But there's a suggested prescription for this problem. On Wednesday, a coalition of schools, hospitals and other groups unveiled the California Future Health Workforce Commission.

Anna Gorman is a reporter at Kaiser Health News who has been writing about it. She joined Take Two's Libby Denkmann to detail the new group's plans to address the growing problem.

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