Featured in Work Shift: The Healthcare Workforce Crisis Is About to Get Worse
Our founder & CEO, Tess Michaels, recently published an opinion piece in Work Shift that highlights the urgent challenges facing healthcare education and the workforce pipeline.
📉 Rising education costs and newly-passed federal loan cuts are squeezing students out of critical programs—from CRNA to physical therapy to respiratory therapy.
🏥 Hospitals already struggling with shortages face an even tougher road if fewer students can afford to enter or complete their degrees.
đź’ˇ The solution requires action now: deeper employer partnerships, innovative financial models, and institutions willing to rethink affordability.
Tess writes:
“The healthcare workforce crisis is not looming—it’s here. Institutions that act now will shape the next generation of clinicians. Those that don’t will watch their programs (and their impact) shrink.”
At Clasp, this is exactly why we exist: to bridge education and employment by helping students afford the programs that lead to high-need roles—while helping healthcare systems recruit and retain the talent they desperately need.