Health Care Delivery Initiative
California
Community
College
Economic
&
Workforce
Development
North/Far North RHORC Butte College, Chico
Health Initiative Office -Sacramento
City College - Sacramento
Interior Bay RHORC - City
College of San Francisco
EWP Health
Care Initiative
RHORC’s
Bay Area RHORC-Mission
College, Santa Clara
Central RHORC-Hartnell
College, Salinas
LA County RHORC - Mt. San
Antonio College, Walnut
Orange County RHORC – Golden
West College, Huntington Beach
South Coast RHORC
- Santa Barbara City
College
San Diego/Imperial RHORC Grossmont College, El Cajon
www.healthoccupations.org
www.healthoccupations.org/ccchealth
http://www.nurseedregistry.net
Statewide Health Occupations Advisory
Committee (SWHOAC)
Advice to Health Initiative/RHORC's
– Business trends
– New workers/worker updates and retraining
– Needed special services, curriculum design, distance ed,
computer-based training, both FTE generating and Contract
Ed
– New worker skill sets
– Getting the word out to business & industry regarding
community colleges programs and services
– Meetings held three times a year.
– Minutes on website
Statewide Discipline-Specific
Industry Regional Collaborative Grant
VTEA Funded Health Care Grant
• Statewide collaborative with RHORC’s as
partners
• Supplements work of Initiative
• Provides funding for implementation of
Statewide projects and regional models to
improve health care
• Project Planning done at Fall Retreat and
assigned as appropriate to RHORC’s
Statewide Discipline-Specific
Industry Regional Collaborative Grant
VTEA Funded Health Care Grant
• Last year’s accomplishments
– Funds 3C-NAC Committee
• Approved vendors for nurse aptitude testing
• Set cut scores
• Set up multi-criterion enrollment model
• Planning a NGETC pathway
• Working on ADN/BSN programs
Statewide Discipline-Specific
Industry Regional Collaborative Grant
VTEA Funded Health Care Grant
• Last year’s accomplishments
– Variety of Staff Development Conferences
– Simulation Conferences
• Mission College
• Stockton
• Fresno
• LA Region
– Southern Cal Faculty Institute
– Asilomar Northern ADN Conference
– Southern ADN Conference
Statewide Discipline-Specific
Industry Regional Collaborative Grant
VTEA Funded Health Care Grant
• Last year’s accomplishments
– Psychiatric Technician Educators data-driven
website
– Completion of Interactive CD-ROM Medical
Assisting Model Curriculum
– Update of CNA Curriculum to CD-ROM
– Marketing brochures for Allied Health
Occupations.
Statewide Discipline-Specific
Industry Regional Collaborative Grant
VTEA Funded Health Care Grant
• This year’s Plan
– Staff Development
• COADN Conf North
• COADN Conf South
• Asilomar Nursing Faculty Conf
• Faculty Institute
• Regional Student Success Advisor Conf.
• Rad Tech Educator Conf
– Men in Nursing Conference
– Adjunct Faculty Website Registry Conf (8 Regions)
– ADN Director Orientation Project
Statewide Discipline-Specific
Industry Regional Collaborative Grant
VTEA Funded Health Care Grant
• This year’s Plan
– 3C-NAC Statistician
– C.N.A. Curriculum Update
– Clinical Skills Podcasting Demo Project
– MLT Curriculum Update to Interactive
– CDLA Region Simulation Collaborative Project
– Website Support
– Adjunct Faculty Website
– Statewide Health Portal Partnership Website (with DOL)
– Health Occupations Marketing Brochures
– Duplication and Distribution of RHORC CD ROM Products
North/South EWD Hubs
EWD Funded Health Care Grants
• Supplemental to RHORC’s -spontaneous ideas through a vetting
process involving the Initiative, the
Chancellor’s Office and the RHORC’s
hosting the HUBS
• North HUB at Butte
• South RHORC at Santa Barbara
Student Success Kit
For a complimentary copy,
please contact:
Linda Zorn, RHORC Director
North/Far North RHORC
Butte College
zornli@butte.edu
Compiled RHORC Products
Nursing and Allied Health Math Tutorial
•Basic Math
•Fractions
•Decimals
•Apothecary’s system
•Basic Algebra (Ratio &
Proportion)
•Word Problems
•All applied to Math for
Health
Welcome Back Centers
(International Healthcare Workers Assistance Center)
• 1400 Validated their Credentials
• 747 Passed Licensing Exams
• 276 Obtained License in their Original Professions
• 444 Entered New Careers in Health
• 847 Obtained New Employment in the Health
Sector
• 55 MD’s Accepted into Residency Programs
North/Far North RHORC - Butte College
Resources for California Community College Associate Degree Nursing
Programs – a 10 CD set
 1. ASSOCIATE DEGREE NURSING (RN) CURRICULUM MODEL- 3
CD’s
 2. National Council Licensure Examination – RN Preparation Program
(NCLEX) - 1 CD
 3. Student Success Kit – 2 CD’s
 4. Preceptor Curriculum – 1 CD
 5. Strategies for Teaching Clinical Nursing – 1 CD
 6. Faculty Recruitment Kit – 2 CD’s
Nursing and Allied Health Math Tutorial CD
 A self-paced course that individuals can utilize in preparation for entry
Linda Zorn,
into allied health programs at California Community Colleges.
RHORC Director
 Consists of Five Chapters.
Partnership with the California Institute for Mental Health
 DACUM Job Analyses
 Pacific Clinics Career Pathway Project
 Mental Health Services Act Workforce Education and Training Statewide
Advisory Group
Interior Bay RHORC –
City College of San Francisco
Radiologic Technology & Sonography Clinical Instructors Workshop:
 Presentations by nationally-recognized sonography educators are
scheduled for Santa Barbara and San Francisco this spring.
Immigrant Nurse Re-entry Project (Alameda County):
 RHORC and Welcome Back provided technical assistance and
support to a collaborative of Alameda County Medical Center (and
others) with Chabot College.
 Produced a detailed plan to provide training and case management
to immigrant nurses re-entering the health workforce.
 With JVS as the lead agency, this collaborative is currently seeking
additional funding.
Community Health Worker (CHW)
 First college-credit training program for CHW’s in the country
 Developed with RHORC support, as well as support from two
FIPSE grants
 2006, RHORC, CCSF (CHW program) and Berkeley City College
received a JDIF grant to expand offerings to incumbent community
health workers and CalWORKs participants – partnering with local
employers.
Janey Skinner,
RHORC
Director
Bay Area RHORC - Mission College
Matthew Grayson
Health Prerequisite Courses:
 Brokered partnership-North Valley Workforce Improvement Board (NOVA), and
Bay Area Workforce Collaborative Fund (BAWFC) to add 17 additional courses
in Nutrition, Anatomy, Physiology, and Microbiology
 Involved eight different community colleges
 Served over 450 students, June 2005 to July 2006.
Psychiatric Technician Curriculum Model Project
 Acquisition of writers for project has been a challenge due to busy faculty, salary
rates, and interest.
 Developmentally Disabled Semester Units assigned to a writer in January.
 Estimated project completion date of June 2008.
Health ESL Project
Matthew Grayson,  Final preparation for production of CD being implemented.
RHORC Director  Estimated product availability date of March 2008.
IV Therapy Blood Withdrawal Course for LVN
 Creating distant education, self-paced, self-learning tool for 27 hours of lecture
portion of course.
 27 Student completed training in January 2008.
Survey of Health Programs Production and Projected Need in Community
Colleges
Planning spring Faculty Development workshop on Simulation
Central RHORC - Hartnell College
Men in Nursing Project: Monterey Peninsula College School of Nursing
 Began fall of 2007 to address the issues of male nursing student’s
attrition rates.
 Provides monthly support groups & mentorships for male nursing
students.
 For fall of 2008, MPC School of Nursing has accepted 24 men into the
class –48% of the 50 students accepted! (Usually only 13%)
 Sponsoring “Men in Nursing” 2 day conference to be held in Monterey
on April 24 & 25.
Clinical Simulation Based Training Workshops
 North Central Valley – Fresno City College – April 4, 2008
 South Central Valley – San Joaquin Delta College – May, 2008
Monterey Bay Geriatric Resource Center:
 Regional consortium that explores and educates other healthcare
providers issues of aging and management of chronic illness MBGRC
 Awarded HUB funding for annual conference “Aging and Chronic Care
Management of the Elderly” Monterey on March 14 & 15, 2008.
Health Information Management/Medical Coding Program
 Hartnell College received JDIF to develop program.
 Three full co-horts of students remain in this vigorous program with the
first group on scheduled to graduate in March 2008.
Valerie Fisher,
RHORC Director
Southcoast RHORC –Santa Barbara City College
Center for Nursing Expansion (Governor’s WIA) grant project
director (Carolyn Newstrom, Coordinator)
 Providing NCLEX-RN Preparation Program for > 100 Repeat Test
Takers.
 Comprehensive preceptor training to > 300 RNs
 117 additional A.D.Ns being enrolled at 5 colleges
RHORC Hub Grant :Focuses on serving under-served regions of the
lower half of California.
 Paramedic to RN Crosswalk at Victor Valley College, from which
to identify content needed in a RN to Paramedic
 Monterey Bay Geriatric Resource Center [MBayRC] 3rd Annual
Aging and Chronic Care Management Conference, scheduled for
March, 2008
 South Coast RHORC Nurse Entrepreneur Workshop, a 5-session
course, scheduled to begin in February, 2008
 South Coast RHORC BSN at CCC study, investigating possibilities
and challenges [practically, as well as legislatively] with California
Community Colleges conferring BSNs
 Brochures for high need health occupations: EMT, LVN, Medical
Assistant, Rad Tech, Health Information Technologist (HIT).
Nurse Assistant Curricula
 CNA Curriculum update complete
 Acute Care CNA Completed
 Curriculum available on interactive CD ROM
Marsha Roberson,
RHORC Director
Orange County Inland Empire RHORC
Golden West College
Mary O’Connor,
RHORC Director
Specialty Nurse Programs
 Acute shortages of Specialty & Critical Care Nurses exist
 Curricula for Critical Care, Emergency, Telemetry and Pediatric
Nursing were developed in 2002- 2004.
 The OC/IE RHORC coordinates Critical Care and Telemetry
Nursing courses for hospitals from Orange County and Long
Beach areas. Employees (mostly new grads) attend the RHORC
fee-based centralized course with hospitals paying salary for
attendance and a clinical preceptorship.
 Total nurses participating since 2003 = 1126 from 24 different
facilities
 Collaborated with AACN Greater OC/LB chapter to provide
CCRN and PCCN certification prep courses Dec. 6-7, 2007 with
131 participants. Pediatric CCRN prep course planned for Spring.
Curricula revision/development
 Medical Assistant Curriculum revision in progress. Completion
scheduled for spring 2008 on Interactive CD ROM.
High School Outreach
 Support for learning materials & field trips for Savanna High
School new Medical Careers Academy
 Serve as Advisor for High School Inc. (new Health Academy
Valley High School, Santa Ana)
LA RHORC - Mt. San Antonio College
Foreign Trained Nurses Missing Coursework
 Victor Valley College, Victorville hosted the Maternal Health and
Psychiatric Nursing
 Summer 07 enrolled 34 students--26 students in the Psychiatric nursing
course with 100% pass rate--8 students in the Maternal Health nursing
course with 100% pass rate
 Winter 08 currently enrolled are 28 students in Psychiatric nursing
 There are currently 18 on the waiting list for both courses
Men in Nursing
 Supporting the induction of the first chapter for California for the
American Assembly for Men in Nursing.
 Currently writing bylaws and seeking “Professional Male” role models
and mentors to enroll in the membership
 Promoting the “Men in Nursing” Conference in Monterey, CA this
Julie HughesLederer,
April
RHORC Director The Licensed Nurse Pathway
 Comprehensive tool to assist any board-eligible nurse develop an
educational plan to achieve licensure.
 Includes early assessments with ESL placement exams and the ATI
Comprehensive Predictor for Nursing.
 Increased the Registered Nurse capacity in the Los Angeles County
region by over 400 licensed nurses by providing an NCLEX review
course.
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San Diego/Imperial RHORC–Grossmont College
Designing & Building a Health Occupation Simulation Training Center
Planning a regional simulation lab and virtual hospital room.
Joint effort -Grossmont-Cuyamaca CCD &Grossmont Healthcare
District.
San Diego Center for Collaborative Health Care Planning
Researched a seven year healthcare workforce needs projection for San
Diego.
RHORC 10 is presently collaborating with the SDWFP, health and
educational organizations to find funding for a San Diego center.
Accelerated RN Program (International Health Care Workers)
Targets internationally trained health care workers to acquire a degree in
nursing in fourteen months. Curriculum is taught at Grossmont
Community College.
Selection process is underway for a Fourth Cohort to commence Spring
2008. Successfully graduated 90 participants to date.
Scripps Mercy Hospital and Grossmont Healthcare District.
Accelerated Dental Hygienist Program (International Trained Dentists)
Funding of $50,000 was received by the California Dental Foundation
to develop this new initiative.
Curriculum development underway to be offered Spring 2008.
MLT Program
Curriculum is being adapted to offer a first training program at
Southwestern Community College in 2008.
Ann Durham
RHORC Director