The Pennsylvania Center for Health Careers

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The Pennsylvania Centerfor Health Careers

• Fred Dedrick
• Executive Director
• Pennsylvania Workforce Investment Board
• Massachusetts Workforce Board Association
• April 25, 2006
• Boston, Massachusetts

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Challenging Economic Realities

• Dynamic, globally competitive, technology
  transforming environment
• Shift from manufacturing to service
• New skill and flexibility requirements
• Significant demographic trends
• Education mismatch

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Pennsylvanias Workforce Development Strategies

• Strengthen Pennsylvanias Industries Create
  industry-led training initiatives
• Increase Opportunities for Pennsylvanias
  residents
• Prepare youth for the careers of tomorrow
• Implement rigorous accountability standards

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Strengthen Pennsylvanias Industries

• Cluster Analysis
• Industry Partnerships
• High Priority Occupations
• Incumbent Worker Training

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Industry Partnerships

• Multi-firm, sub-cluster specific
• Multi-agency workforce, education, economic
  development, welfare, etc.
• Focus on strategic innovations
• From data to information to intelligence
• Centers of Excellence

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Role of the State

• Invest in start-up partnerships
• Enhance existing sectoral efforts with incumbent
  worker training
• Require collaboration with other programs and
  initiatives
• Build statewide partnerships where appropriate

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Health Care Example

• 2000-01 Lancaster WIB begins to address health
  care workforce needs
• Pittsburgh area hosts Health Care Summit
• Hospitals, educators and workforce officials
  begin to meet in Philadelphia region
• Serious shortages across the state, especially in
  nursing
• Lots of national studies

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Disturbing Trends

• HRSA projections for PA
• 2005 -10,833
• 2010 -17,066
• 2015 -27,784
• 2020 -40,381
• PA RN Graduation totals
• 1995 6,008
• 2001 2,819
• 2004 4,504

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Regional Initiatives

• 2002-3 Lancaster mounts advertising campaign,
  provides career information, aligns with
  educational providers
• Pittsburgh organizes Health Careers Futures
• Philadelphia creates Life Science Career Alliance

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State Initiatives

• 2002 PA WIB study points out health care
  occupation shortages
• PA Organizes 1st Health Careers Week
• 2003 Expanded Health Careers Week with statewide
  advertising, call in number and over 200 events
• Lack of capacity becomes clear

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Governor Rendell creates PA Center for Health
Careers

• Four Priorities
• Address nurse education capacity
• Retain health care professionals in health care
• Recruit and retain allied health care
  professionals
• Address needs of direct care workers

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PA Center for Health Careers

• Leadership council organized
• Meets in April 2004
• Three co-chairs
• Education, Hospital Labor
• Organized Working Groups
• Initial Focus Nurse Education Capacity
• Initial Research Supply/Demand Study

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Supply/Demand Study

• Occupational data and projections
• Department of Health Nursing Survey --- Critical
  information
• 183,000 RNs surveyed
• 80 Response rate
• Intention to leave nursing
• Satisfaction/Dissatisfaction
• In Health care/Geography

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Nurse Education Capacity Working Group

• Five regional roundtables involving over 200
  stakeholders
• Over 600 suggested recommendations
• Narrowed down to 14
• Report developed
• Approved by Leadership Council
• Presented to and adopted by PA WIB
• Sent to Governor

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Result 30 million Investment

• Nurse Educator Loan Forgiveness
• Graduate Nurse Education Grants
• Nurse Faculty Development Grants
• Supplemental Funding for Practical Nursing
  Programs
• Interim Student Loan Guarantee Program
• Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students

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10 million requestin Governors FY06-07 Budget

• Loaned Faculty Initiative --- provide financial
  incentives to hospitals to lend faculty
• A Clinical Education Expansion Fund ---
  technology, preceptors and rural initiative
• Nurse Education Expansion Planning Grants ---
  Analysis of opportunities

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Goal 2010 - 8,000 graduates

• 100 additional faculty
• Significant expansion of clinical education
• Better NCLEX pass rates
• More diversity
• More minorities
• More men

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Retention Working Group

• Creation of Retention Working Group
• Regional Roundtables
• Vision and Principles
• Validation
• Final Report

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Direct Care Workers

• Partnering with Office of Health Care Reform
• Connection to Medicare/Medicaid
• Issues
• Low Wages
• Lack of training
• No Certification
• Health Insurance

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Allied Health Careers

• Serious shortages
• Radiologic Technology
• Respiratory Therapy
• Clinical Laboratory Technologists
• Pharmacists
• Supply/Demand Research
• Regional outreach
• Recommendations for Governor

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Lessons Learned

• State has important role
• Look to regional innovations
• Reach out, listen, recruit, and
• report back
• Create statewide partnership
• Be respectful and cautious with influential
  advocates
• Focus on limited objectives

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Future Challenges

• Addressing needs of non-nursing health care
  occupations
• Fresh leadership
• Sustainability of Center for Health Careers
• New Governor New Priorities

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Thank You

• Fred Dedrick
• Executive Director
• Pennsylvania Workforce Investment Board
• 901 North 7th Street, Suite 103
• Harrisburg, PA 17102
• [phone]
• fdedrick_at_state.pa.us