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Turnover and attrition are serious problems in almost every healthcare profession. The average turnover rate across all healthcare roles was 22.7% in 2025. At 27.1%, nursing had the highest turnover rate, while support staff had the lowest turnover rate at 18.4%. Among physicians, ICU doctors had the highest turnover rate at 29.7% and those in specialty practices had the lowest at 17.6%.
Nearly all healthcare organizations experience turnover, which means most are bearing the financial burden of recruitment, onboarding, signing bonuses, and lost revenue due to vacancies. Replacing an ER doctor can cost anywhere from $500,000 to $1.2 million.
If your healthcare organization is struggling with turnover and attrition, ByteBloc wants to help. Here are a few of our favorite ways to reduce turnover.
How to Reduce Turnover in Your Healthcare Organization
Allow for career development
Establish clinical ladders that allow workers to advance in their practice and earn more, without having to move from one organization to another. Offer support to workers who want to pursue professional certifications. Create easy-on pathways to promotions and other internal opportunities; make sure these pathways are visible and easily accessible to employees.
Offer transparent and competitive salaries
Most healthcare workers enter the field because they want to have a meaningful, positive effect on their community and the people that live there; they also choose healthcare for the great pay and job security.
Pay transparency improves workplace equity, boosts recruitment, and bolsters worker trust.
Prevent and address burnout
About two-thirds of nurses and nearly half of all physicians report burnout. When chronic overwork and understaffing leads to the emotional exhaustion and depersonalization that characterize burnout, employees quit. Unfortunately, burnout can cause a ripple effect: an overwhelmed worker tends to have a negative attitude that creates a toxic environment and challenging workplace for others, which can lead to burnout in these employees. Empty job positions related to burnout can also contribute to low staffing and overwork.
Flexible physician scheduling
In a survey published in June 2026, researchers investigated the reasons behind the growing attrition rates among emergency room physicians. They found that many respondents said that flexibility in scheduling played a role in their decision to become ER doctors, and that many said they’d take less money for greater autonomy and to get their preferred hours.
Offering flexible scheduling can give healthcare workers the autonomy and preferred hours they desire. Flexible scheduling can also help reduce burnout and allow employees to pursue professional certifications or achieve other career development goals.
Many healthcare organizations are turning to ByteBloc to reduce turnover of their best employees through robust emergency medicine scheduling. ByteBloc emergency room scheduling software can help organizations reduce turnover in the ER and our shift scheduling software can help other departments retain more employees. Founded by an emergency physician more than 30 years ago, ByteBloc software helps organizations reduce burnout in emergency departments in all 50 states, Canada and many other countries around the world.
For more information on ER scheduling software to reduce turnover, contact ByteBloc.
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