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Today’s Rural Healthcare Workforce Challenges

This article discusses the current challenges faced by rural hospitals in regards to workforce shortages in key care-giving professions. It explores the vacancy rates for selected hospital personnel, particularly registered nurses, and highlights the need for increased educational capacity and partnerships to sustain the healthcare workforce. The importance of funding, innovation, and public policies to address these challenges is emphasized.

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Today’s Rural Healthcare Workforce Challenges

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  1. Today’s Rural Healthcare Workforce Challenges Rural Health Roundtable October 2, 2008 Catherine Crowley Vice President

  2. Nationally Hospitals Face Workforce Shortages in Key Care-giving Professions… Vacancy Rates for Selected Hospital Personnel, December 2006 116,000 RN Vacancies* Source: 2007 AHA Survey of Hospital Leaders Note: 116,000 vacancies is a national estimate created by extrapolating the vacancy rate to all 5,000 community hospitals in 2005. ST: Speech Therapist, OT: Occupational Therapist, PT: Physical Therapist.

  3. Current Reality Source: 2007 Maryland Hospital Personnel Survey

  4. Future Reality Source: Who Will Care? The Case for Doubling the Number of Nurses Educated in Maryland

  5. Our Challenges • Aging workforce and retirements → vacancy • Aging population → growing demand for services • Educational capacity→ limited • Advances in technology → improved diagnosis, treatment options, demand for services

  6. Maryland Schools of Nursing & Allied Health Passionate Partners

  7. It’s a Regional Dilemma

  8. Initiatives Nurse Support I and II • Who Will Care? • NSP I and NSP II • Hospital Sponsored Scholarships, Shared Faculty • Nurse Retention Collaborative • Robert Wood Johnson – Nursing Education Capacity Summit

  9. When You Are The Patient… Sustaining the Healthcare Workforce . . . • Partnerships are Key • Funding is Crucial • Innovation the Norm • Public Policies Needed

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