Partnerships to Growing a
Healthcare Workforce
Patricia M. Noga, RN, MBA, CNAA
Sr. Director, Clinical Affairs
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Allied Health Professions in
Greatest Demand
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Radiation Therapists
Respiratory Therapists
Diagnostic Medical Sonographers
Surgical Technologists
Radiological Technologists
Medical Laboratory Technologists
Pharmacists
Nuclear Medicine Technologists
(The Boston Foundation, 2006)
Allied Health Professions with Highest
Vacancy Rates at MA Hospitals
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Physical Therapist
Physician Assistant
Occupational Therapy Asst.
Occupational Therapist
Medical Record Coder
LPN
Ultrasound Tech
Physical Therapist Assistant
Staff Registered Nurse
9.5%
9.0%
8.0%
7.0%
6.5%
6.5%
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6.0%
6.0%
(MHA, February 2006)
What’s the Single Most Important Reason for a
Career Choice?
Motivators
All
Students
Students Interested
in Nursing
Sense of making a
difference/benefiting
people’s lives
57%
71%
A sense of feeling what
you do is important
50%
67%
Having a stable,
secure job
47%
56%
Good salary/money
43%
50%
(Ives Erickson et al. 2005)
School-Hospital
Partnerships
Health Careers Academy
• College preparatory high school for Boston
students exploring careers in the health
professions and related fields
• Collaboration with 3 hospitals
• Health Engagement Coordinator
– Links classroom with the real world
– Resource to students
– Works with teachers to integrate concepts into the classroom
Source: http://healthcareersacademy.org/HOME.html
Metrowest Community Health
Care Foundation
• Partnership of area nursing leaders to address nursing
shortages in 25-town service area, including 4 hospitals
• Nurse Power multifaceted campaign
• Educational booklets to 300 sites, shopping mall kiosks,
scholarship applications
• Health profession career days, internships, Nurse Power
lunches, Nurse Power Club after school program
Source: http://www.nursepower.net
Worcester Technical High School
• Allied Health & Human Services program
• Long standing partnership with St. Vincent’s Hospital for
externships, on the job training, licensure/certification,
employment
• Instructor in high school oversees partnership program
with St. Vincent’s
• School based health care center clinicians role model,
integrate concepts into classroom
Baystate Health/Springfield Public
Schools Educational Partnership (BSEP)
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Goals:
1. build relationships with motivated and
capable students
2. guide these students' experiences and
academic paths towards careers in the
medical field
Large focus on academic foundation and employability
skills
Baystate Health/Springfield Public
Schools Educational Partnership (BSEP)
• Training programs: CNA, lab assistant,
phlebotomist, health information tech
• Success with initial large group programming, then
job shadowing and internships for those interested
in a profession
• Hospital driven program:
– “We went out to the schools”
– “How can hospitals work better with schools?”
– Both are complex, have own agenda
Trends in School-Hospital Partnerships
• More organized partnerships forming
• College prep programs trying to include
vocational prep and vocational prep trying to
include college prep
• More focus on trying to figure out how to better
prepare students for chosen career pathway
Trends in School-Hospital Partnerships
• Career Academy – national network emerging
• Hospitals supporting employees in ascending
chosen career pathway, i.e. “pipeline programs”
• Challenge: how to facilitate & support student
employee to work & to attend school
How to Partner with a Hospital
1. Designate “point person” or liaison at
your school
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Teacher with interest
Health Teacher
Teacher with health background
School Nurse
Career specialist
Guidance Counselor
How to Partner with a Hospital
2. “Point person” or liaison at your school
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Talk the language of health care professional &
language of educator
Function as gatekeeper
Match students with a hospital experience
Ideal to have health background
Resource to teachers for integrating health
careers and topics into the classroom
Identified as the resource by students
How to Partner with a Hospital
3. “Point person” or liaison at your school
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Contact hospital Human Resource Department
for identified resource
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Human Resources
Workforce Development
Organizational Development
Community Health
Volunteer Department
Professional Development Departments
How to Partner with a Hospital
4. Point person/liaison at your school
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Develop relationship with hospital contact
Begin to collaborate on developing a program that will
benefit both school and hospital communities
Learn each others culture
Meet on regular basis to sustain the relationship and work
toward goals
Network with other schools and hospitals to benchmark,
share approaches, enhance your work
Encourage expanding partnerships
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Building partnerships to grow
our healthcare workforce….
….Where do you go from here?