COVID-19 Findings
The Spring 2020 Washington Health Workforce Sentinel Network added five questions about the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on health care facilities’ workforce and operations (see questions listed below).
The COVID-19 WORKFORCE RAPID RESPONSE REPORTS section provides links to reports summarizing responses to these questions for a selection of facility types. Click on a facility type to see the corresponding report.
Scroll down to the COVID-19 DASHBOARD section to explore all responses (hover over the information symbol for instructions).
Questions
- 1: Which occupations/service roles were most affected by the COVID-19 crisis at your facility?
- 2: What about your facility’s staffing arrangements made it easier or harder to respond to the emergency?
- 3/4: As a result of the crisis, what are your top workforce needs over the short and longer term that could be alleviated by new or modified policy, regulatory, and/or payment rules?
- 5: What additional workforce issues resulting from the COVID-19 emergency at your facility do you feel should be recognized and addressed?
COVID-19 Workforce Rapid Response Reports
Small Hospitals
Primary Care Clinics
Behavioral Health Clinics
FQHCs and Community Clinics
Dental Offices/Clinics
Assisted Living Facilities
Nursing Homes/SNFs
COVID-19 Dashboard
| Facility Type | No. of Responses |
| Dentist office/dental clinic | 316 |
| Federally qualified health center (FQHC) or community clinic providing care free or on sliding fee scale | 22 |
| Nursing home or skilled nursing facility | 20 |
| Assisted living facility | 19 |
| Behavioral-mental health clinic/outpatient mental health and substance abuse clinic | 19 |
| Acute care hospital (25 beds or fewer) | 14 |
| Primary care medical clinic (not FQHC or community clinic) | 13 |
| Higher Education / Research | 9 |
| Acute care hospital (more than 25 beds) | 7 |
| Home health care service | 7 |
| Freestanding Evaluation & Treatment facility | 6 |
| Psychiatric residential treatment facility | 6 |
| School | 6 |
| Retirement community/independent living facility | 5 |
| Adult family home | 4 |
| Hospital/Clinical pharmacy | 4 |
| Mobile crisis outreach team | 4 |
| Physical and/or occupational therapy | 4 |
| Specialty (except psychiatric/substance abuse) hospital | 3 |
| Community/Retail pharmacy | 2 |
| Designated Crisis Responder (DCR) services | 2 |
| Hospice | 2 |
| Medical/diagnostic laboratory | 2 |
| Other out-of-facility behavioral health services | 2 |
| Psychiatric hospital | 2 |
| Massage therapy | 1 |
| Other residential treatment facility | 1 |
| Psychiatric unit at a community hospital | 1 |
| Public Health | 1 |
| Total facility-level responses | 504 |
Note: there were 415 individual responses. Each respondent could select multple facility types.