Healthcare RN attrition jumps eighteen percent in southern systems.
The labor compression thesis is no longer hyperscaler-only. Care delivery is the second sector to hit the same wall.

Southern hospital systems are reporting 18% YoY attrition in nursing roles for Q1, the steepest sequential rise in nine years. The wage spiral the workforce cannot match has now landed where the experience curve is steepest. The cohort math is the same as the demographic pivot Palanor has been writing into.
JOLTS hires lag openings by 18% in healthcare and construction — the leading-indicator now reads as a structural mismatch, not a cyclical lag.
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