Changes in the Clinical Workforce Providing Contraception and Abortion Care in the US, 2019-2021

Abstract

This cross-sectional study investigates changes in the workforce providing contraception and abortion services from before to during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Adapting Family Planning Service Delivery in Title X and School-Based Settings during COVID-19: Provider and Staff Experiences

“…Finally, our findings point to a key success of family planning providers’ and staff response to COVID-19: their flexibility, resiliency, and innovation. This creativity and determination occurred against a backdrop of high rates of stress, burnout, and turnover among healthcare workers broadly [ 57 , 58 , 59 ]. Others have also noted this resilient response to the challenges of the pandemic [ 36 , 43 ].…”

Errors in Service Counts in Results and Figure

“…In the Original Investigation titled “Changes in the Clinical Workforce Providing Contraception and Abortion Care in the US, 2019-2021,” published November 1, 2022, services were inadvertently overcounted in Results and the Figure by including both the general procedure/visit code and the device/medication code for intrauterine device and medication abortion. The article has been corrected.…”

Changes in Employment in the US Health Care Workforce, 2016-2022

“…The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a variety of disruptions to the health care workforce . Data on select health care workforce sectors chronicle patterns in employment through 2021 . Lack of national studies on the broad health care workforce using more recent data in this period of rapid change limits the ability of health care organizations and policy makers to ensure that patient needs are met.…”

“…1 Data on select health care workforce sectors chronicle patterns in employment through 2021. [1][2][3] Lack of national studies on the broad health care workforce using more recent data in this period of rapid change limits the ability of health care organizations and policy makers to ensure that patient needs are met. This study estimated recovery since the initial decrease in employment after the March 2020 public health emergency across US health care subsectors through the end of 2022.…”

“…1 Data on select health care workforce sectors chronicle patterns in employment through 2021. [1][2][3] Lack of national studies on the broad health care workforce using more recent data in this period of rapid change limits the ability of health care organizations and policy makers to ensure that patient needs are met. This study estimated recovery since the initial decrease in employment after the March 2020 public health emergency across US health care subsectors through the end of 2022.Methods | We used industry-and national-level employment data from the 2016-2022 Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, a national labor force census database covering more than 95% of jobs in the US, 4 to assess health care employment changes vs changes in non-health care sectors.…”