The healthcare labor crisis has reached a tipping point. Hospitals and health systems nationwide struggle to recruit, retain, and fill skills gaps at the pace needed to meet patient needs. And the projections are sobering: Lightcast projects that the healthcare sector will face a shortage of 160,000 workers each year through 2030, totalling nearly 800,000. These workforce gaps aren’t distant hypotheticals—they are forming right now, with ripple effects that C-suite executives cannot afford to ignore.