WASHINGTON — Sandwiched between the Florida Panhandle and the Mississippi coast, Infirmary Health’s hospitals can’t compete with neighboring states’ wages.
Nurses and health care professionals who live in south Alabama can drive just a little longer to Pensacola for work and earn up to $5 an hour more in the Sunshine State than they can at home. That leaves hospitals in Mobile and Baldwin counties struggling to attract talent.
“It’s almost impossible for us to go toe-to-toe with them on wages and benefits,” Mark Nix, president and CEO of Infirmary Health System, told Alabama Daily News…