Health Professions Awareness Committee

1. Health Professions Awareness Committee Update Presentation Health Professions Network 2008 Spring Conference Baltimore, MD; April 2-4, 2008

2. HPAC Update: A Look Back: • An Idea in Salt Lake City • Johnson & Johnson program success with Nursing • Perceived upcoming shortages for Allied Health • Upcoming need for ideas to promote National Health Care Week • Idea from Bernard Hodes and a quick phone call

4. HPAC Update: A Look Back: • An Idea in Salt Lake City • Johnson & Johnson success with Nursing • Perceived upcoming shortages for Allied Health • Upcoming need for ideas to promote National Health Care Week • Idea from Bernard Hodes and a quick phone call • Incorporation of HPN to 501(c)3 to Allow Fundraising • Development of the Health Professions Awareness Committee • Part of Judy Simpson’s Consumer Awareness Committee • Dan Olsen, Charles Stanley, Barbara Jones, Bill Dubbs, Mike Nelson, Virginia Pappas, and Karen Hart and Steve Mitchell from Hodes • Develop the original “charge:” Vendors & Presentation

5. HPAC Update: HPAC Activities: • Developed a “Creative” for an initial media campaign • Developed the Executive Summary, or “Elevator Speech” • Developed the Presentation: • The “Perfect Storm” introduction • The “Players:” HPN & Bernard Hodes • Immediate and long-range goals • Various components of the 3-5 year program • Role and return for the vendor/sponsor • Projected costs • Research on targeted vendors, study of foundation operations

6. HPAC Update: What’s Changed: • Johnson & Johnson Program Success: Results and Directions • Revised BLS Numbers • Significant changes from 2004-2014 projections • New AMA Education Data • Many programs appear to be producing adequate supplies of graduates • Some, primarily Laboratory Sciences, are significantly behind • New Look at Direction of Program • Marketing of Health Careers to meet the growing needs of the future • Quality education for the best students we can recruit • Monitoring the rapid changes in emerging technologies

7. HPAC Update: What’s Next: • Continue with original objectives

8. The Proposed Program Immediate Opportunities: Marketing Health Career Opportunities • Promotion of Health Career Occupations • Career opportunities; traditional and non-traditional students • Expansion of educational/provider linkages for future growth and quality standards • Awareness of public and legislative bodies of current critical situation and resource/funding requirements • Identification of Issues and Conditions Impacting the Quantity and Quality of Health Care Professionals

9. The Proposed Program Long Range Opportunities: Addressing the Barriers • Educational Staffing and Resources • Insufficient Number of Qualified Faculty • Competition Among Programs for Limited Clinical Sites • Insufficient Classroom and Laboratory Space • Need for New and Additional Equipment • Legislative & Funding • Governance & Regulatory

10. HPAC Update: What’s Next: • Continue with original objectives • Begin ground work in areas identified as Long Range Opportunities: • Identify the issues/barriers/opportunities within Education, Legislative, and Governance & Regulatory • No solutions or recommendations, just “getting a handle on” and putting in perspective of a bigger picture or goal. • Start shaping a process/script for a “per state” program • All politics are local • All states appear to have the same issues, different degrees of separation • Easier to assemble teams around a common program than to have every group building their individual silos of interest

11. HPAC Update: What’s Next (cont.): • Form Two New Committees: • Identification of issues within each group: education, legislative, and Governance & Regulatory • Shaping a process/script for a “per state” program • Begin Our Fundraising Activities