Health care providers are facing crippling staffing shortages that affect access to care. If unaddressed, this problem will only get worse, according to a report by the Michigan Health Council studying the job market for 36 common health care occupations. In some regions of the state, such as Northern Michigan, these shortages may be even more pronounced.
Michigan law excludes hundreds of thousands of people from the workforce because of old criminal convictions1. This includes many social workers and other professionals who have completed their professional training and obtained occupational licenses but are barred from working in hospitals or as Medicaid providers by state law. These laws exclude people with any felony conviction from having a job with access to patients or patient records within 10 years of the end of their possible maximum sentence (including community supervision). Misdemeanor convictions carry exclusions of 1-5 years, depending on severity.
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