Engaging Youth in Health Care Careers Through Partnerships

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Engaging Youth in Health Care Careers Through
Partnerships

• Guy Finne
• Mayo Health System
• Sonya McNamara
• Healthcare Education Industry Partnership

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Healthcare Education Industry PartnershipMinneso
ta State Colleges and Universities

• Chair Laura Beeth, Fairview Health Services
• Vice Chair Daniel Olson, Hennepin County
  Medical Center
• Director Kristin Juliar

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Healthcare Education Industry Partnership

• Role
• Build a strong partnership
• Mission
• Working in partnership to provide innovative
  leadership to guide the education and training of
  a high quality workforce in a rapidly changing
  industry

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Healthcare Education Industry Partnership

• Higher education, healthcare organizations,
  government, community organizations
• Joint strategic planning around healthcare
  education

• How do we work together to meet the demand for a
  high quality healthcare workforce?

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The MnSCU System

• 7 State Universities
• 28 two year technical and community colleges
• 53 campuses in 46 communities
• About 150,000 students
• 7,000 annual healthcare degrees

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Healthcare Education Industry Partnership
Partnership
K-12
Strategies
Diversity
Flexibility and New Ideas
Curriculum
Policy
Capacity in Higher Education
Quality of Healthcare Workforce
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Current HEIP Projects

• Partnership Council
• Curriculum
• Clinical Laboratory
• K-12 Collaborative
• Minnesota Nursing Initiative
• Clinical Coordination
• Simulation
• Policy
• Community Health Worker 
• See HEIP Project Report for details.

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Partnership and Collaboration

• HEIP and partners like Mayo work together to
  build partnership and collaboration among
  Minnesota healthcare community.
• Rather than focusing on areas of difference,
  focus on common goals and areas of agreements

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Who are the Partners?

• Major Systems
• Fairview, Mayo Clinic, Allina, HealthPartners,
  HealthEast, Hennepin County Medical Center, North
  Memorial, Park Nicollet
• Rural providers
• Representing hospitals, clinics, and long term
  care from throughout the state

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Who are the Partners?

• MN Depts. of Health Human Services Corrections
  Education Employment and Economic Development
• University of Minnesota, MnSCU campuses, and
  private colleges and universities

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Who are the Partners?

• MN Hospital Association
• MN Nurses Association
• MN Health and Housing Alliance
• Care Providers
• MN Center for Rural Health/Rural Health Resource
  Center
• Medical Alley/MnBio
• Colleagues in Caring Collaborative

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How it works

• Partnership Council has about 40 members and
  meets quarterly on policy issues
• Each initiative has committees with HEIP and
  other community partners
• Funding from MnSCU, state agencies, federal
  government, foundations
• Lots of loaned time from the partners

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Mayo ClinicMission and Values

• MissionMayo will provide the best care to every
  patient every day through integrated clinical
  practice, education and research.
• Primary Value
• The needs of the patient come first.

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Mayo Clinic

• Personnel
• Staff physicians and medical scientists
  2,968Clinical and research associates and
  fellows 896Residents and students 2,122Adm
  inistrative and Allied health staff
  41,892 Total 47,878 Average full-time
  equivalents
• Patient Care
• Unique patients 513,377Total outpatient
  visits 2,271,484Hospital admissions 130,093
  Hospital days of patient care 599,002
•  Rochester, Jacksonville and ScottsdaleIndividu
  als are counted once annually, not by visits.

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Mayo Hires

• On average (1999 - 2003)
• Allied Health  2,513/year
• Nurses 454/year
• Radiology Tech's 21/year
• Lab. Tech's 85/year
• Pharmacists 20/year
• Medical Secretaries 110/year

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A Serious Shortage Projected
According to HRSA, todays 1,600 nursing
vacancies will more than double to 4,400 by 2010
and will keep rising to an estimated 9,200
vacancies by 2015.
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Factors Impacting Healthcare Workforce Since 2000
The healthcare industry had above average job
growth.
Source Minnesota Workforce Center
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Factors Impacting Healthcare Workforce Since 2000

• Minnesotas population is growing older.

Source Minnesota Department of Administration
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Factors Impacting Healthcare Workforce Since 2000
Healthcare openings declined in 2003, however
vacancy rates remained high.
Source Minnesota Department of Employment and
Economic Development, Job Vacancy Survey.
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Allied Health Workforce Shortage

• Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates need
• 75,000 more radiologic technologists by 2010
• 12,400 laboratory specialists ANNUALLY
• 38,877 respiratory therapists
• Vacancy rates
• Radiologic technologists 15
• Laboratory 7 to 20
• Respiratory therapists 5.7 to 16.7

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Consequences of Shortage

• Increased Healthcare Costs
• Decreased Access to Care

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Increased Healthcare Costs

• Nearly 60 of a hospitals and 70 of a long-term
  care facilitys budget goes to pay salaries and
  benefits.
• When demand for employees is greater than supply,
  the cost to recruit and compensate scarce
  applicants rises.
• Already a major health system reports their
  replacement costs an RN range from 75,000 to
  100,000.
• Staffing shortages are anticipated for the next 2
  to 3 decades.

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Decreased Access to Care

• As the gap between supply and demand of nursing
  services increases, Minnesotans will experience
• Longer waiting periods
• Limited resources for patient care
• When hospitals and long-term care facilities
  believe they do not have the resources to deliver
  quality care, they are forced to limit access.
• Already hospitals are increasingly diverting
  ambulances due to capacity issues.

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Partnership Outcomes

• How healthcare organizations, higher education,
  community organizations, and government can work
  together

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How Healthcare Organizations Can Work With Other
Groups

• Joint planning with colleges
• Working with organized labor unions
• Collaborating with other healthcare institutions
• Local government initiatives, such as Mayors
  initiative
• Nursing capacity collaboration

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Personal ExperienceHow Can I Help?

• Healthcare Education-Industry Partnership
• Minnesota Hospital Association
• National Institute of Health Policy
• State Healthcare Policy Group
• Governors Workforce Development Council
• Hennepin County/St. Paul/ Initiatives

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What Resources Do Healthcare Employers Bring?

• Healthcare Specialists/Leaders
• Public Policy Experts/Lobbyists
• Public Relations Experts/Advertising/TV
• Clinical Space
• President/CEO Influence
• Internal Workforce Development Centers
• Host Your Legislature/testifying

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Why Mayo Clinic is looking for ways to allow
students into the healthcare facilities?

• We need students to be thinking about healthcare
  careers and Mayo Clinic as an employer of choice
• Hiring tradition
• Workforce demographics (1999, 2004)
• Hands-on, first hand experiences are always
  better than lectures (2005 Focus Groups)
• Student learn and observe the skills used, the
  work atmosphere and get a chance to know the
  real employee
• Mayo Clinic is full of employees who are creative
  and trustworthy to work with students while
  upholding patient confidentiality provide
  employee orientation

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Mayo Clinic Career Awareness Program

• Current Program Tools
• E-Mentoring
• Advanced E-Mentoring
• Career Speaker Program
• Career Awareness Website/Brochure
• High School Student Visits (on-campus)
• Guidance Counselor Luncheon/Day
• Mayo Clinic Career Observation Program
  (on-campus)
• Mayo Clinic Work-Study Program (on-campus)
• Youth Apprenticeship Program (on-campus)
• HOSA (Health Occupation Students of America)
• Healthcare Career Festival

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Mayo Clinic Career Awareness Program Program
Structure

• 6th Grade
• E-Mentoring
• 7th - 10th Grade
• Career Speaker Program
• Career Awareness Website
• High School Visits/Tours
• 11th - 12th Grade
• Career Speaker Program
• Career Awareness Website
• Healthcare Career Festival
• Careers Observation (MC-COP)
• HOSA programming
• Advanced E-mentoring
• Work-Study Program
• High School Visits/Tours
• Youth Apprenticeships
• College
• Healthcare Career Festival
• Career Awareness Website

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What are some of the obstacles Mayo Clinic has
overcome to allow student to participate in
programs?

• Patient Confidentiality
• Observation Program patient confidentiality
  training and a selection program
• Work-Study patient confidentiality training and
  paid employment
• Youth Apprenticeship patient confidentiality
  training and paid employment
• Resources (staff and funding)
• On going communication with leadership
• Measuring results

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Partnership with Schools

• Do not provide career awareness programs in a
  vacuum
• Needs to benefit the student, the school and the
  healthcare organization
• Mayo Clinic holds an Annual Guidance
  Counselor/Educator Day
• Talk about growing career fields/education
• What are the needs of the school
• Website just for the school
• Regular email correspondence
• Focus Group Studies

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Keys to the Program...

• A System of program tools
• Partnerships
• meet the needs of Mayo Departments
• meet the needs of students
• meet the needs of educators/schools
• Orientation (employers students)
• Program Reviews (employees, students and
  educators)

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K-12 Partnerships

• Creating the next generation of healthcare
  professionals
• Partnerships with Minnesota Depts. of Health and
  Education to fund partnership projects with
  communities
• Partnerships between local schools, local higher
  education, businesses, and healthcare providers
• Students learning from practicing healthcare
  professionals
• Goal is young people well prepared for college

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HOSA

• National Student Organization endorsed by US
  Department of Education
• Secondary, post-secondary, and collegiate
  institutions as integral part of Health Science
  Education Curriculum
• Student led organization of future health care
  professionals.

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National HOSA

• Nationwide there are over 80,000 members of HOSA
• 2,400 secondary and post-secondary/collegiate
  chapters
• 40 state association

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Minnesota HOSA

• Around 800 members in Minnesota
• 3683 HOSA members competed in 49 events Total
  National HOSA membership 78,073
• MN Winners
• 1st, 2nd, 7th place EMT- North East Metro
• 2nd, 7th place Sports Medicine- North East
  Metro
• 6th place Dental Spelling- North East Metro
• 6th place Career Health Display- Hennepin
  Technical College
• 8th place Creative Problem Solving- Anoka High
  SchoolFrom National HOSA Website

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What Do Students Think?

• HOSA was the first opportunity I had to speak in
  front of crowds and develop my leadership skills.
  Being a state officer and competing at HOSA
  conferences gave me confidence.
• It influenced me to take on more opportunities to
  serve my peers and community.
• Cori E.

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For Additional Information

• Guy Finne
• Mayo Clinic HR
• 200 First St. SW
• Rochester, MN 55904507.538.0984finne.guy_at_mayo.e
  du
• www.mayoclinic.org
• www.mayoclinic.org/careerawareness/

• Sonya McNamara
• MSU- Mankato, MnSCUs HEIP
• Myers Fieldhouse 124Mankato, MN
  56001507.389.3262
• sonya.mcnamara_at_mnsu.edu
• www.heip.org