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The Baltimore Alliance for Careers in Healthcare, Inc. was created in 2005 in response to two critical challenges:

The Baltimore Alliance for Careers in Healthcare, Inc. was created in 2005 in response to two critical challenges:

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The Baltimore Alliance for Careers in Healthcare, Inc. was created in 2005 in response to two critical challenges:

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  1. The Baltimore Alliance for Careers in Healthcare, Inc. was created in 2005 in response to two critical challenges: • Unemployment and Underemployment. 43 percent of Baltimore City residents 16 and older are not working, compared to 32 percent statewide. In addition, median family income is a little over half that for the state as a whole. • A Current and Projected Shortage of Skilled Healthcare Workers. At 42 percent, Baltimore City & County have a huge share of the state’s total healthcare jobs and turnover and vacancy rates for mid-level, skilled jobs are in the double digits and rising. Nearly 3000 new skilled jobs will need to be created, moreover, to accommodate growth projected for the 2002 – 2012 time period. The Challenge

  2. BACH works with local partners to retain and advance front-line workers through: • Career Coaching: Provides grants, software and training for coaches to improve retention and advancement of healthcare workers. • Career Mapping: Provides an overview of career opportunities and outlines the education and experience needed to advance into mid-level, skilled, healthcare jobs. • Pre-Allied Health Bridge: Offers short-term remediation to individuals who need skill enhancements before entering formal training. • Occupational Training: Through grants such as the ARRA STEP-UP Grant or the DOL Mature Worker grant offers training for mid-level skilled jobs such as medical practice rep., sterile processing tech and surgical technician. • BACH Fellows Summer Internship Program: Provides a paid summer internship experience for rising high school seniors enrolled in allied health programs. Responses Reaching higher rungs on the healthcare career ladder leads to higher wages but typically requires more education and other interventions like career coaching.

  3. With its partners, BACH is building a pipeline from unemployment and underemployment to skilled healthcare jobs on many fronts: • Between 9/1/05 and 12/31/09, BACH served 918 individuals through its Coaching Program. • 343 of these individuals enrolled in occupational training and 306 (89%) completed. • Among 84 Nurse Extenders who were coached and 124 who were not coached at one healthcare institution, the coached group had much better retention results: 94% of the coached group v. 68% of the non-coached group achieved 12 months retention; and 90% of the coached group v. 58% of the non-coached group achieved 18 months retention. • BACH completed a Career Map addressing the specific needs of the long-term care sector in 2008 and, in 2009, published a revised version of its acute-care career map, distributing copies to healthcare institutions, the k-12 system, one-stop centers and community-based organizations. Results For additional information, please contact Dr. Ronald M. Hearn, Executive Director, at rhearn@baltimorealliance.org. or at (443) 451-9822.

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