According to the most recent data, New Hampshire has the nation’s sixth-worst nursing home staffing shortage, involving 57% of facilities. Compare that to Massachusetts, where less than 9% of facilities are in such a crisis. Here nursing homes are victims of our state’s enviable economic success. A 2% unemployment rate can make it impossible for employers to find workers, and New Hampshire’s shortage of licensed health care workers available to all sectors predates the COVID-19 pandemic.
