Regional Healthcare Planning

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Regional Healthcare Planning

• Rx for Workforce Crisis Uncommon Remedies/
• Resilient Partners

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Building on Past Collaboratives

• Sector Strategies
• Expanded Capacity Transitioned New
  Professionals
• Registered Nurses
• Licensed Vocational Nurses
• Pharmacy Technicians
• MRI Technicians
• Radiology Technicians
• Medical Billers Coders
• Certified Nursing Assistants
• Home Health Aides

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First Steps

• 2004 Mayors Medical Industry Summit 125
  Stakeholders
• Focused on Forces behind Workforce Deficits
• Changing Demographics
• Recruitment
• Retention
• Educational Limitations
• Clear Task at Hand Design Systems for Future
• WIB Industry Taskforce Commissioned

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Industry Partnerships

• Regional Industry Partnerships
• Multiple Hospitals, Other Employers
• WIBs covering Orange and L.A. Counties
• Community Colleges/CSU Campuses
• Healthcare Pipeline Projects
• Industry Professionals Connecting with
  High Schools
• CVS Pharmacies Internship/ Training
  Sites
• Partnership with Youth One-Stop

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Long Term Strategic Structural Attrition
Reduction

• ADN Mentor/Program Coordinator The Daisy
  Model
• Monthly Student Care Group Meetings
• Clinical Preceptorships Training Transitional
• Tutoring, Coaching, Peer Mentoring
• Financial Support GPA Success Checks, Incentives
• NCLEX Review Classes, Assessment Technology
  Institute (ATI) Battery of Assessment
  Remediation

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Regional Allied Healthcare Workforce Needs
On-Line Survey

• Southeastern L.A. County Northern Orange County
• Business Recruitment, Training, and Retention
  Needs
• Goal to Refine Workforce Intelligence on Skills
  and Education Gaps of Incumbent Workers
  Applicants
• Results
• 90 Interested in Strategic Planning
  Collaborative
• 79 Interested in Customized Training OJT
  Opportunities
• 43 Identified English Literacy/Cultural
  Competency Skills Gaps
• 38 Identified Computer Skills Gaps (Evolving
  Electronic Records)

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Regional Allied Healthcare Workforce Needs
On-Line Survey
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Facing Todays Challenges Customized Healthcare
Training

• Survey Follow-up to Address Industry Needs
• Recruitment and Retention of Qualified Staff
• Incumbent Worker Skills Development
• Layoff Aversion Strategies
• Healthcare Information Technology
• Customized Training Patient Care Assistant
• Others Under Development

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Virtual Hospital Real-Life Skills

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• Technology-based learning(TBL) program for
  Virtual ESL for Nursing and Related Healthcare
  Occupations.
• Partnership with workforce development, employer
  partners, education partners and youth partners
• Increase hospital effectiveness, employee
  performance and patient satisfaction by improving
  communication skills of nurses with limited
  English proficiency.

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Project Objective

• Leverage resources among WIBs and partners
• Develop statewide program models applicable to
  other industry sectors and WIBs

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Resources and Contact Info

• Pacific Gateway Allied Healthcare Workforce Needs
  Survey, OCWIB Workforce Indicators 2008 Report,
  Diversity Demand Addressing Californias
  Health Care Workforce Crisis, CSUDH, 04/17/2009
  Allied Health Workforce Analysis Los Angeles
  Region, UCSF Center for Health Professions
• Bryan Rogers
• 562.570.3701
• Bryan.Rogers_at_longbeach.gov
• Debbie Marshall
• 562.570.3724
• Debbie.Marshall_at_longbeach.gov