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Workforce Development Councils:

Workforce Development Councils:. Local Resources for Hospital Work Force Needs. Presenters. Scott Bond Administrator, Providence St. Peter Hospital Board Chair, WSHA Panel Member, Pacific Mountain Health Care Partnership.

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Workforce Development Councils:

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  1. Workforce Development Councils: Local Resources for Hospital Work Force Needs

  2. Presenters Scott BondAdministrator, Providence St. Peter Hospital Board Chair, WSHA Panel Member, Pacific Mountain Health Care Partnership Ellen O’Brien SaundersExecutive Director, Washington State Workforce Training & Education Coordinating Board Board Member, Health Work Force Institute Ed PhippenProgram Director, Health Work Force Institute

  3. Webcast Overview • Why you should care • Workforce Development Councils (WDCs) • Health skill panels • Hospital efforts and accomplishments • State structure • How you can get involved

  4. Why You Should Care

  5. How do personnel shortages affect our margins? • Increased recruiting costs • Increased wages and benefits • Contract staffing – est. $100 million annually by Washington State hospitals

  6. Shortages? What shortages? • Current hospital RN vacancy rate: 6.2% But! • 66% of RNs hired between 2001 & 2002 were over the age of 50 (Buerhaus, Staiger and Auerbach. Is the Current Shortage of Hospital Nurses Ending? Health Affairs, 22(6): 191-198, 2003.) • Personnel shortage for Washington State • 8,800 new RN graduates by 2010 • 26,000 new RN graduates by 2020 (U.S. Health Resources Services Administration)

  7. Demand for Washington Healthcare Personnel (www.WorkforceExplorer.com, January 26, 2005)

  8. What Are Workforce Development Councils? • Composed of your region’s key business, government, education and labor leaders • Councils meet regularly to discuss local work force challenges and create solutions • Develop strategic plans for regional work force development that align with state strategic plan • Manage the region’s WorkSource system • Administer state & federal funds

  9. Council Membership • Councils • Council members are appointed by chief local elected officials • A majority of board members must be from local businesses • All board members must have optimum policy making authority within their organizations

  10. Where Are Workforce Development Councils?

  11. Workforce Investment Act: $70 Million Allocated in 2004

  12. Workforce Investment Act: $70 Million Allocated in 2004

  13. What Are Industry Skill Panels? • Responsible for closing skill gaps • Partnerships of businesses, labor, and educators • Often, advisory panels to WDCs but not required • Seed funding from the Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board

  14. Industry Panel Goals • Employers with more efficiency, less turnover, and higher profits. • Workers with better skills, jobs, and career opportunities. • Educational programs that address key economic clusters and on-the-job learning strategies.

  15. What Have the Industry Panels Achieved? • Focused interest from local media on workforce and economic development topics. • Developed curricula, skill standards, assessment tools, and new apprenticeship programs

  16. What Have the Industry Panels Achieved? (cont’d) • Industrial or regionally centered research to find solutions for skill gaps. • Shared instructional design and curricula, resulting in the ability of industries with multiple locations to use courses that are consistent throughout the state.

  17. What Are Health Care Skill Panels? • Assess needs, create strategies, implement innovations • Panels advise WDCs and the state on health care work force issues • Include representatives from labor, hospitals, other health care organizations, post-secondary education, and K-12 school districts • All 12 WDCs have health care skills panels

  18. What Have the Health Panels Accomplished? The panels have leveraged almost $36 million for health care work force development since their inception.

  19. What Have the Health Panels Accomplished? (cont’d) • Northwest Washington: Increased nurse training capacity by 75 percent • Pierce County: Led a 6 county application for a $2.4 million federal grant aimed at expanding capacity in local 2- and 4-year colleges’ programs • Benton-Franklin:www.healthcareworx.org provides career information for high school students

  20. What Have the Health Panels Accomplished? (cont’d) • Olympic: Health care career workshops for K-12 math and science teachers • Pacific Mountain: Working with the state and military to recognize military training in the civilian health care work force • Tacoma-Pierce: Created a satellite training program in invasive cardiovascular technology

  21. What Have the Health Panels Accomplished? (cont’d) • Tacoma-Pierce: Developed first-in-the-nation apprenticeship programs for health unit coordinator, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging. • Seattle-King: Developed a workplace literacy program customized to meet health care employer needs

  22. Why Participate on Skills Panels? • Promote industry awareness to students and jobseekers • Collaborate to leverage funds that create or expand training opportunities • Deploy options to increase clinical capacity • Bring attention to health care workforce skills gap

  23. How Do These Local Projects Fit Together? • Washington State Healthcare Personnel Shortage Task Force • Composed of representatives from 2- and 4-year colleges, labor, and industry associations (including WSHA) • Sets goals, measures progress, and reports to the Legislature • www.wtb.wa.gov/HCPUBS.HTML

  24. Task Force Goals • Increase educational capacity • Recruit more health care workers & students • Develop data system to assess supply & demand

  25. Task Force Goals (cont’d) • Retain current workers • Enable local communities to implement their own strategies • Ensure continued collaboration and progress on resolving shortages

  26. State Funds for Work Force Development Approximately $880 million is spent annually in Washington State, including: • High school career & technical education: $252 million • Community & technical college work force education: $359 million • Apprenticeship: $1 million • WorkSource/employment service: $16 million • Adult literacy: $86 million • Vocational rehabilitation: $54 million • Workforce Investment Act: $108 million

  27. State Structure • Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board • Employment Security Department • Community & Technical Colleges • Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction

  28. How Can You Get Involved? • Make sure whoever participates from your institution in the skill panel is familiar with your work force objectives • Consider collaborating with your regional hospital council

  29. WDC and Health Skills Panel Contacts

  30. WDC and Health Skills Panel Contacts

  31. Questions?

  32. Thank you for participating! Please fill out the evaluation.

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