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Partnerships to Growing a Healthcare Workforce. Patricia M. Noga, RN, MBA, CNAA Sr. Director, Clinical Affairs. Source: http://www.nchste.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/phoenix.ppt#1. Source: http://www.nchste.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/phoenix.ppt#1.
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Partnerships to Growing a Healthcare Workforce Patricia M. Noga, RN, MBA, CNAA Sr. Director, Clinical Affairs
Source: http://www.nchste.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/phoenix.ppt#1
Source: http://www.nchste.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/phoenix.ppt#1
Allied Health Professions in Greatest Demand • Radiation Therapists • Respiratory Therapists • Diagnostic Medical Sonographers • Surgical Technologists • Radiological Technologists • Medical Laboratory Technologists • Pharmacists • Nuclear Medicine Technologists (The Boston Foundation, 2006)
Allied Health Professions with Highest Vacancy Rates at MA Hospitals • Physical Therapist 9.5% • Physician Assistant 9.0% • Occupational Therapy Asst. 8.0% • Occupational Therapist 7.0% • Medical Record Coder 6.5% • LPN 6.5% • Ultrasound Tech 6.0% • Physical Therapist Assistant 6.0% • Staff Registered Nurse 6.0% (MHA, February 2006)
What’s the Single Most Important Reason for a Career Choice?
Health Careers Academy • College preparatory high school for Boston students exploring careers in the health professions and related fields • Collaboration with 3 hospitals • Health Engagement Coordinator • Links classroom with the real world • Resource to students • Works with teachers to integrate concepts into the classroom
Metrowest Community Health Care Foundation • Partnership of area nursing leaders to address nursing shortages in 25-town service area, including 4 hospitals • Nurse Power multifaceted campaign • Educational booklets to 300 sites, shopping mall kiosks, scholarship applications • Health profession career days, internships, Nurse Power lunches, Nurse Power Club after school program
Worcester Technical High School • Allied Health & Human Services program • Long standing partnership with St. Vincent’s Hospital for externships, on the job training, licensure/certification, employment • Instructor in high school oversees partnership program with St. Vincent’s • School based health care center clinicians role model, integrate concepts into classroom
Baystate Health/Springfield Public Schools Educational Partnership (BSEP) • Goals: 1. build relationships with motivated and capable students 2. guide these students' experiences and academic paths towards careers in the medical field • Large focus on academic foundation and employability skills
Baystate Health/Springfield Public Schools Educational Partnership (BSEP) • Training programs: CNA, lab assistant, phlebotomist, health information tech • Success with initial large group programming, then job shadowing and internships for those interested in a profession • Hospital driven program: • “We went out to the schools” • “How can hospitals work better with schools?” • Both are complex, have own agenda
Trends in School-Hospital Partnerships • More organized partnerships forming • College prep programs trying to include vocational prep and vocational prep trying to include college prep • More focus on trying to figure out how to better prepare students for chosen career pathway
Trends in School-Hospital Partnerships • Career Academy – national network emerging • Hospitals supporting employees in ascending chosen career pathway, i.e. “pipeline programs” • Challenge: how to facilitate & support student employee to work & to attend school
How to Partner with a Hospital • Designate “point person” or liaison at your school • Teacher with interest • Health Teacher • Teacher with health background • School Nurse • Career specialist • Guidance Counselor
How to Partner with a Hospital • “Point person” or liaison at your school • Talk the language of health care professional & language of educator • Function as gatekeeper • Match students with a hospital experience • Ideal to have health background • Resource to teachers for integrating health careers and topics into the classroom • Identified as the resource by students
How to Partner with a Hospital 3. “Point person” or liaison at your school • Contact hospital Human Resource Department for identified resource • Human Resources • Workforce Development • Organizational Development • Community Health • Volunteer Department • Professional Development Departments
How to Partner with a Hospital 4. Point person/liaison at your school • Develop relationship with hospital contact • Begin to collaborate on developing a program that will benefit both school and hospital communities • Learn each others culture • Meet on regular basis to sustain the relationship and work toward goals • Network with other schools and hospitals to benchmark, share approaches, enhance your work • Encourage expanding partnerships
Source: http://www.nchste.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/phoenix.ppt#1
Building partnerships to grow our healthcare workforce…. ….Where do you go from here?