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Northern Virginia Health Care Workforce Alliance

Northern Virginia Health Care Workforce Alliance. An Analysis and Response to the Regional Health Care Worker Shortage. Regional health care worker shortage Current regional shortage obvious but not quantified Projections call for worker demand to continue growing over next 30 years

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Northern Virginia Health Care Workforce Alliance

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  1. Northern Virginia Health Care Workforce Alliance An Analysis and Response to the Regional Health Care Worker Shortage

  2. Regional health care worker shortage Current regional shortage obvious but not quantified Projections call for worker demand to continue growing over next 30 years Current capacity of training & education system inadequate to meet projected demands Why the Northern Virginia Health Care Workforce Alliance?

  3. Private sector, business, government, community, health care and educational leaders Mission: establish a long-term, business-driven, sustainable strategy to address the Northern Virginia health care worker shortage What is the Northern Virginia Health Care Workforce Alliance?

  4. James B. Cole President and CEO Virginia Hospital Center (Arlington) Sean Connaughton Chairman, Prince William County Board of Supervisors James W. Dyke, Jr. Chair, Northern Virginia Roundtable Partner, McGuire Woods LLP Nancy K. Eberhardt Chair, Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce CEO, Pathwise Partners LLC Jorge E. Figueredo, MPP Executive Director Hispanic Committee of Virginia L. Burwell Gunn Chairman, Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Managing Director, Provident Bank William A. Hazel, Jr., M.D. Chair, INOVA Medical Affairs Council Teresa (Terry) M. Klaassen Founder & Executive Vice President Sunrise Senior Living Gary T. McCollum Vice President and General Manager, Cox Communications Steering Committee Northern Virginia Health Care Workforce Alliance

  5. Michael B. O’Neil, Jr. Chief Executive Officer GetWellNetwork Doug Poretz Partner, Qorvis Communications Julie L. Rogers President, Meyer Foundation Robert P. Rogers, Jr. Chairman, Northern Virginia Workforce Investment Board Chair, The Chesapeake Center, Inc. J. Knox Singleton President and CEO INOVA Health System Robert G. Templin, Jr. President, Northern Virginia Community College Lydia W. Thomas, Ph.D. Board Member, Northern Virginia Technology Council President & CEO, Mitretek Systems Steering Committee Northern Virginia Health Care Workforce Alliance

  6. Outcome: A Business-driven Sustainable Strategy • Concept of “business-driven” is key • Businesses must see themselves as having a vested interest • Health care workforce shortage must be seen as more than a hospital problem

  7. Outcome: A Business-driven Sustainable Strategy • Solution must provide upward mobility for “New Americans” and underemployed • The solution must address workforce utilization in health care industry • Solution must be self-perpetuating and out-live the Alliance

  8. How will the Alliance obtain this outcome? • Commissioned study (Feb – Dec 04) • Presented at BOT Potomac Conference (June 04) • Develop comprehensive regional strategy.

  9. How will the Alliance obtain this outcome? • Implement business-driven, sustainable strategy. • Identify funding resources necessary to support initiatives

  10. The Northern Virginia Health Care Workforce Study PricewaterhouseCoopers Size & Scope of workforce challenge Impact on • Access & Delivery of Quality Health Care • Regional Economy • Business Competitiveness • Quality of Life Study Completion • May-June, 2004

  11. Study Objectives • Identify current workforce & needs • Measure current gaps & identify causes • Identify future needs & capacity needed to fill gaps

  12. Study Objectives • Identify best practices • Estimate potential future economic impact • Estimate potential impact of failure to act • Develop scorecard template for future use

  13. Strategies Goal 1: Increase capacity within the health care education and training system. Goal 2: Develop and sustain an ongoing supply of persons interested in entering health care career fields Goal 3: Nurture Innovation

  14. Goal 1: Increase capacity Key Strategy: • Work with state and local governments, public schools and higher education, and the health care sector to build the training capacity needed to supply the health care workforce required to meet the growing demands of our region.

  15. Goal 1: Increase capacity (cont.) Key Objectives: • strengthen partnerships between employers, business associations, and educational institutions to increase the availability of resources for and access to clinical training; • reorganize education programs with regard to time and place to provide ‘non-traditional’ access to classroom activities (e.g., time of day) and to increase simulated ‘clinical’ experiences; and • assess the effectiveness of accelerated programs.

  16. Goal 2: Develop and sustain the pipeline Key Strategy: • Conduct and evaluate a pilot to design a variety of recruitment efforts that includes building awareness of health care careers at the middle and high school levels; identifies school to work transition strategies within the industry; and develops outreach efforts targeted particularly to the immigrant community.

  17. Goal 2: Develop and sustain the pipeline (cont) Key Objectives: • recruit diverse populations into health care by increasing outreach efforts to those populations; • recruit new Americans into health care; • expand efforts to enhance retention of minority students at colleges and universities;

  18. Goal 2: Develop and sustain the pipeline (cont) • retrain dislocated workers for health care occupations; and • enhance the image of a diverse range of health care occupations to make them more desirable to young people, their parents, and school counselors.

  19. Goal 3:Nurture Innovation Key Strategies:Nurture innovation around: • the development of new care giving roles, especially in long-term and assisted living settings • the more rapid deployment of technology through the training of health information technology workers • the application of technology to enhance productivity in the health care sector and to improve the quality of patient services.

  20. Goal 3:Nurture Innovation (cont) Key Objectives: • Identify and pilot careers of the future • Identify and pilot methods to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of health care thought the application of information technology.

  21. What can you do? • Participate in the Work Groups • Recommend participants for the Work Groups

  22. What can you do? • Communicate this initiative to your stakeholders • You are an integral part of this process!

  23. Questions?

  24. Contacts Brian P. Foley, M. Ed., MHA, CPHQ, FACHE Special Assistant to the President Medical Education Campus Enterprise 6699 Springfield Center Drive Springfield, Virginia 22150-1931 Phone: 703-822-6619 Northern Virginia Health Care Workforce Alliance Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation 4001 Wakefield Chapel Road Annandale, Virginia 22003 www. novahealthworkforce.org

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