We must solve Virginia’s other health care workforce crisis: A lack of educators

We must solve Virginia’s other health care workforce crisis: A lack of educators

(Getty Images) America’s health care workforce shortage is a known crisis: Over 85% of health care facilities lack adequate staff. However, the shortage of health care educators is often overlooked. It will be impossible to ramp up enrollment and prepare an adequate number of students to fill these gaps until we fill the thousands of faculty chairs sitting empty in Virginia and across the country .   Even before I got my degree, I began my healt…