healthcare workforce initiative

HEALTHCARE WORKFORCEINITIATIVE

2007-09 BienniumLegislatively-approved

Investment in Oregon’s Community Colleges

Health Careers Pathways SummitApril 10, 2008

Valley River Inn, Eugene

Facilitators

Jo BellHealthcare Policy AdvisorCCWD

Wayne FannoEducation and Workforce Specialist

CCWD

Today’s Meeting

• Background on Healthcare Workforce Initiative

• The Healthcare Workforce Initiative• Overview of Initiative Components• What’s Next & What to expect

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


Issues identified for Request

• Community college issues

• Demand issues


Community 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

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

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)

Solution

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

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

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

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

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

Solution

• Encourages sharing of limited resources and faculty

• Provides healthcare programs and courses on a statewide basis to meet local needs

Initiative Components

• Programs and Courses

• Program Sharing Agreements

• Faculty & Student Supports


• 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


• Program Sharing Agreements

–Articulation, transfer, resource sharing, statewide delivery

–Career Pathways


• Faculty & Student Supports– Faculty training for distance

– Preceptor training for distance

– Student supports (advising, mentoring, financial aid, testing, technical support, on-line library resources)

Program / Course Development RFP

• New Release date• Response Deadline• Completion Date• Walk through of RFP Sections• Use of RFI info


• Outcomes– Development of a standard model for “healthcare

statewide consortium programs”

– Replicability for new healthcare program and courses needed around the state


• 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


• 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


• Overall RFP – Standard format– Less is more– Quarterly meetings for sharing, assistance– Only one component of Initiative


• We are excited!

• We want to assist and facilitate

• We know that we can do this together.

Questions?

Contact Information

Wayne [email protected] X374

Jo [email protected]

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