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Nursing Centers are Still Struggling with Hiring Workers
While hospitals hit their capacities during the COVID-19 omicron surge, they had to hold onto patients who couldn't get released to nursing care centers. Those facilities say their slim staffing levels aren't seeing relief and, therefore, couldn't help hospitals juggling longer-term patients. This is the second part of our series on Nebraska's healthcare staffing crisis.