New MHA president focused on bolstering health care workforce amid shortages

As she visits hospitals and health systems in her new role as the president and CEO of the Maryland Hospital Association, former state Sen. Melony Griffith said there continues to be a pervasive need in the state for more health care workers, “no matter where you travel.” Griffith, who is in her first month leading the association, a powerful trade organization for more than 60 nonprofit hospitals and health systems in Maryland and Washington, D.C., resigned from the legislature earlier this year after 22 years representing Prince George’s County.