{"id":617387,"date":"2026-09-07T17:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T17:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/617387\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T17:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T17:18:14","slug":"recruitment-and-retention-at-forefront-of-nl-health-services-new-three-year-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/617387\/","title":{"rendered":"Recruitment and Retention at Forefront of NL Health Services\u2019 New Three-Year Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ron-johnson-1.png\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Recruitment and Retention at Forefront of NL Health Services' New Three-Year Plan\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">CEO of the NLHS Ron Johnson (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services has released<a href=\"https:\/\/nlhealthservices.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/NLHealthServicesStrategicPlan2026-29.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> its three-year plan<\/a> aimed at improving patient care across the province, and recruitment and retention is front and center.<\/p>\n<p>The provincial government campaigned heavily on a platform of better healthcare, yet many facilities are still struggling to keep their scheduled operating hours due to staffing shortages.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Ron Johnson says the new strategy focuses on filling the need for family physicians, and finding new ways to support staff recruitment and retention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to make these jobs attractive for people. We have to retain. Recruitment is one piece of it, but retention is just as important. We want people to see our organization as a great place to work. And that has to be more than just saying it\u2019s a great place to work. We have to have strategies that actually show people it is a great place to work.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"spreaker-player\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/episode\/nlhs-ceo-ron-johnson-and-senior-director-of-long-term-care-melvin-layden--74937618\" data-resource=\"episode_id=74937618\" data-width=\"100%\" data-height=\"200px\" data-theme=\"light\" data-playlist=\"false\" data-playlist-continuous=\"false\" data-chapters-image=\"true\" data-episode-image-position=\"right\" data-hide-logo=\"false\" data-hide-likes=\"false\" data-hide-comments=\"false\" data-hide-sharing=\"false\" data-hide-download=\"true\" data-title=\"NLHS CEO Ron Johnson and Senior Director of Long-Term Care Melvin Layden\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to \u201cNLHS CEO Ron Johnson and Senior Director of Long-Term Care Melvin Layden\u201d on Spreaker.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; CEO of the NLHS Ron Johnson (VOCM News) Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services has released its three-year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60,222384,151325,222381,222383,222385,222382,222378,222379,222380],"class_list":["post-617387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}