HEALTHCARE WORKFORCE INITIATIVE

1. HEALTHCARE WORKFORCEINITIATIVE 2007-09 Biennium Legislatively-approved Investment in Oregon’s Community Colleges Health Careers Pathways Summit April 10, 2008 Valley River Inn, Eugene

2. Facilitators Jo Bell Healthcare Policy Advisor CCWD Wayne Fanno Education and Workforce Specialist CCWD

3. Today’s Meeting • Background on Healthcare Workforce Initiative • The Healthcare Workforce Initiative • Overview of Initiative Components • What’s Next & What to expect

4. Background on Healthcare Workforce Initiative History • Early 2006, high level discussions around budget preparation • Five players • CCWD • OIT / OUS • OHSU • Governor’s Office • Oregon Healthcare Workforce Institute Overarching statement about healthcare workforce needs and desire to address the problem with a coordinated approach

5. Background on Healthcare Workforce InitiativeIssues identified for Request • Community college issues • Demand issues

6. Background on Healthcare Workforce InitiativeCommunity college issues • Lack of capacity • Capacity clustered along I-5 • Rural & frontier populations insufficient to support developing and sustaining expensive healthcare programs • Lack of technology infrastructure • Shortage of qualified faculty

7. BackgroundDemand Issues • Demand distributed all across Oregon • Increased cost to students to travel or move for education • Never (well, rarely) return to fill jobs at ‘home’ • 28% increase in healthcare workers needed • Powerful economic impact for all communities if current and emerging healthcare jobs are filled

8. Solution • Healthcare Workforce Initiative • Approved by the Legislature in 2007 • $2.2 million total Initiative • Resources to be used in the 2007-09 biennium (through June 30, 2009)

9. Solution • Uses a statewide approach to increase instructional capacity through a coordinated statewide effort involving all 17 community colleges

10. Solution • Focuses on implementing healthcare workforce education programs through improved access, transferability and articulation across all 17 community colleges and their OIT/OUS & OHSU partners

11. Solution • Emphasizes distance and distributive delivery of healthcare education programs to assure access to education and to fill healthcare positions in all communities around the state • Assures that the capacity available is utilized to the fullest extent

12. Solution • Aggregates students distributed by distance or time into the same class, allowing every “seat” to be filled even when there are not enough students (or enough classes) to satisfy the demand in any one place or schedule

13. Solution • Provides a “capacity valve” to allow continuation of needed healthcare programs while offering individual community colleges the ability to expand or contract their enrollment in a particular program or course

14. Solution • Encourages sharing of limited resources and faculty • Provides healthcare programs and courses on a statewide basis to meet local needs

15. Initiative Components • Programs and Courses • Program Sharing Agreements • Faculty & Student Supports

16. Initiative Components • Programs and Courses • Development or conversion of healthcare workforce education programs and courses to a distance format for statewide anytime anyplace delivery • Simulation needs • Distance learning technology

17. Initiative Components • Program Sharing Agreements • Articulation, transfer, resource sharing, statewide delivery • Career Pathways

18. Initiative Components • Faculty & Student Supports • Faculty training for distance • Preceptor training for distance • Student supports (advising, mentoring, financial aid, testing, technical support, on-line library resources)

19. Program / Course Development RFP • New Release date • Response Deadline • Completion Date • Walk through of RFP Sections • Use of RFI info

20. Program / Course Development RFP • Outcomes • Development of a standard model for “healthcare statewide consortium programs” • Replicability for new healthcare program and courses needed around the state

21. Program / Course Development RFP • Outcomes (cont) • Sustainability of at least one “healthcare statewide consortium program” for each healthcare profession appropriate for community college delivery • Systemic process for how community colleges develop and offer new healthcare programs and courses • Incorporation of courses into career pathways roadmaps and Career Pathways Certificates whenever possible

22. Program / Course Development RFP • Looking for – • Ability to meet statewide identified needs • Availability of course or program via distance/distributive delivery • Ability to leverage other grant activities and sources • Collaborative approach involving all community colleges • Program development only

23. Program / Course Development RFP • Overall RFP • Standard format • Less is more • Quarterly meetings for sharing, assistance • Only one component of Initiative

24. Program / Course Development RFP • We are excited! • We want to assist and facilitate • We know that we can do this together.

25. Questions?

26. Contact Information Wayne Fanno wayne.fanno@state.or.us 503-378-8648 X374 Jo Bell jo.bell@state.or.us 503-931-5057