Budget • FY 2008 Appropriation = $ 627 M • FY 2009 Appropriation = $ 672 M pp p $ • FY 2010 Appropriation= $ 725 M FY 2010 Appropriation= $ 725 M • FY2011 Proposed = $733 M 3 President’s FY 2011 Budget Total= $733 million Total= $733 million 4 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) • $200 million for Health Professions $200 million for Health Professions • $47.6 million for Training in Primary Care Medicine & Dentistry • $10.5 million for Public Health • $39.5 million for Nursing • $52.4 million for Diversity Programs • $1.5 million for Licensure Portability • $50 million for Equipment $50 million for Equipment 5 Current Issues Current Issues • • • • • • • • Managing regular program expansion Managing ARRA funding Managing ARRA funding Performance measurement/evaluation Increased expectations for collaboration with other Increased expectations for collaboration with other agencies Increased demand for workforce analysis New and reauthorized/modified programs in health reform/ACA Implementation of programs funded through Public Health and Prevention fund of ACA Identifying/sharing good training models Identifying/sharing good training models 6 Health Reform and BHPr Health Reform and BHPr • 40 BHPr programs affected 40 BHP ff t d – Reauthorization/Revisions to existing programs – New programs • Effective immediately – had to modify and reissue a number of program guidances Health Reform and BHPr: • • • • • Reauthorization First major congressional action in a decade Expanded some programs to include “supporting” supporting professions professions Updated “ceilings” E Expanded loan repayment opportunities d dl t t iti Significant changes to workforce analysis and evaluation provisions Health Reform and BHPr: New programs • Loan repayment/shortage designations • “Supporting” professions and “direct care” workers • Teaching Health Centers • Workforce Analysis Workforce Analysis Recent Development: $250 M for Primary Care • • • • Expansion of primary care residency Expansion of PC NP training Expansion of PA training Expansion of PA training Nurse Managed Health Clinics (as training sites) it ) • State Health Care Workforce Development Grants Health Workforce Analysis under Health Reform d H l hR f • N National Health Care Workforce Commission ti l H lth C W kf C i i (Section 5101) • State Health Care Workforce Development Grants (S. State Health Care Workforce Development Grants (S 5102) • Health Care Workforce Assessment (S. 5103) Health Care Workforce Assessment (S 5103) State Health Care Workforce Development Grants l • Grants Grants to States to support planning and workforce to States to support planning and workforce development activities • Administered by HRSA for the National Commission y • Two types of grants – planning (1 yr) and implementation (2‐3 yrs) • Currently “on the street” with a focus on primary care workforce Health Care Workforce Assessment Health Care Workforce Assessment • National National Center for Health Workforce Analysis Center for Health Workforce Analysis • State and Regional Centers for Health Workforce Analysis • Increases in grants for longitudinal evaluations Increases in grants for longitudinal evaluations National Center for Health Workforce Analysis • • • • • Coordinate with Commission and regional and State agencies Develop information on health care workforce Develop information on health care workforce Develop uniform health professions data reporting system Annually evaluate Title VII programs Annually evaluate Title VII programs Establish performance measures and benchmarks for Title VII programs • Establish a national Internet registry of Title VII grants and a database to collect data from longitudinal evaluations Increases in grants for longitudinal evaluations • Increase awards to Title VII grants to conduct longitudinal evaluations • Evaluations must be capable of studying practice patterns and collecting and reporting performance measures as developed by Advisory Committees • Advisory Committees also responsible for developing guidelines for the longitudinal evaluations guidelines for the longitudinal evaluations • • • • Core Workforce Activities of the National Center f h N i lC Implement a uniform health workforce data reporting system i Operate an open data and information dissemination portal Conduct workforce analyses to support policy‐ y pp p y makers Collect and analyze performance measures Collect and analyze performance measures and longitudinal evaluations for Title VII programs Uniform data reporting system • Minimum data standards • Multiple domains (e.g., education, supply, demand) • Primarily administrative sources • Collaborative model Collaborative model • National data repository Information dissemination portal • Web‐based, one‐ stop shopping for data and i f information (HWIC +) i (HWIC ) • Comparative data available at various levels of aggregation (e.g. ARF, state profiles, national) • Data available to all for research and analysis y • Collection of longitudinal evaluation data Workforce analyses Workforce analyses • Descriptive information on education, supply, and distribution d di ib i • Supply and demand models • Primary data collections • Policy Policy‐driven driven analyses analyses • Research studies Contact Information Contact Information Roger Stra Ph D Roger Straw, Ph.D. Director, OWPPM Health Resources and Services Administration Bureau of Health Professions rstraw@hrsa.gov 301‐443‐0367