Need to close a staff skills gap? Here's how one hospital did it.
Nearly one-third of unskilled workers, 29 percent of semiskilled workers , and 11 percent of managerial, professional and technical employees are functionally illiterate in the United States, according to a recent study titled Closing the Literacy Gap in American Business. Employers, including those in the ever-complex health care sector, are just now coming to grips with the problem, which robs the U.S. economy of an estimated $140 billion to $300 billion annually in lost work-force productivity. Here's the story of how one health facility dealt with the problem.
Svehla Consultants Inc., Downers Grove, IL.
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