Northern Virginia Health Care Workforce Alliance

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Northern Virginia Health Care Workforce Alliance

• An Analysis and Response to the Regional Health
  Care Worker Shortage

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Why the Northern Virginia Health Care Workforce
Alliance?

• Regional health care worker shortage
• Current regional shortage obvious but not
  quantified
• Projections call for worker demand to continue
  growing over next 30 years
• Current capacity of training education system
  inadequate to meet projected demands

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What is the Northern Virginia Health Care
Workforce Alliance?

• Private sector, business, government, community,
  health care and educational leaders
• Mission establish a long-term, business-driven,
  sustainable strategy to address the Northern
  Virginia health care worker shortage

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Steering Committee Northern Virginia Health
Care Workforce Alliance

• James B. Cole
• President and CEO
• Virginia Hospital Center (Arlington)
• Sean Connaughton
• Chairman, Prince William County
• Board of Supervisors
• James W. Dyke, Jr.
• Chair, Northern Virginia Roundtable
• Partner, McGuire Woods LLP
• Nancy K. Eberhardt
• Chair, Fairfax County
• Chamber of Commerce
• CEO, Pathwise Partners LLC

• L. Burwell Gunn
• Chairman,
• Northern Virginia Community College
• Educational Foundation
• Managing Director, Provident Bank
• William A. Hazel, Jr., M.D.
• Chair, INOVA Medical Affairs Council
• Teresa (Terry) M. Klaassen
• Founder Executive Vice President Sunrise Senior
  Living
• Gary T. McCollum
• Vice President and General Manager,
• Cox Communications

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Steering Committee Northern Virginia Health
Care Workforce Alliance

• Michael B. ONeil, Jr.
• Chief Executive Officer
• GetWellNetwork
• Doug Poretz
• Partner, Qorvis Communications
• Julie L. Rogers
• President, Meyer Foundation
• Robert P. Rogers, Jr.
• Chairman, Northern Virginia
• Workforce Investment Board
• Chair, The Chesapeake Center, Inc.

• J. Knox Singleton
• President and CEO
• INOVA Health System
• Robert G. Templin, Jr.
• President, Northern Virginia
• Community College
• Lydia W. Thomas, Ph.D.
• Board Member, Northern Virginia Technology
  Council
• President CEO, Mitretek Systems

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Outcome A Business-driven Sustainable Strategy

• Concept of business-driven is key
• Businesses must see themselves as having a vested
  interest
• Health care workforce shortage must be seen as
  more than a hospital problem

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Outcome A Business-driven Sustainable Strategy

• Solution must provide upward mobility for New
  Americans and underemployed
• The solution must address workforce utilization
  in health care industry
• Solution must be self-perpetuating and out-live
  the Alliance

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How will the Alliance obtain this outcome?

• Commissioned study (Feb Dec 04)
• Presented at BOT Potomac Conference (June 04)
• Develop comprehensive regional
• strategy.

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How will the Alliance obtain this outcome?

• Implement business-driven, sustainable strategy.
• Identify funding resources necessary to support
  initiatives

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The Northern Virginia Health Care Workforce Study

• PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Size Scope of workforce challenge
• Impact on
• Access Delivery of Quality Health Care
• Regional Economy
• Business Competitiveness
• Quality of Life
• Study Completion
• May-June, 2004

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Study Objectives

• Identify current workforce needs
• Measure current gaps identify causes
• Identify future needs capacity needed to fill
  gaps

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Study Objectives

• Identify best practices
• Estimate potential future economic impact
• Estimate potential impact of failure to act
• Develop scorecard template for future use

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Strategies

• Goal 1 Increase capacity within the health care
  education and training system.
• Goal 2 Develop and sustain an ongoing supply of
  persons interested in entering health care career
  fields
• Goal 3 Nurture Innovation

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Goal 1 Increase capacity

• Key Strategy
• Work with state and local governments, public
  schools and higher education, and the health care
  sector to build the training capacity needed to
  supply the health care workforce required to meet
  the growing demands of our region.

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Goal 1 Increase capacity (cont.)

• Key Objectives
• strengthen partnerships between employers,
  business associations, and educational
  institutions to increase the availability of
  resources for and access to clinical training
• reorganize education programs with regard to time
  and place to provide non-traditional access to
  classroom activities (e.g., time of day) and to
  increase simulated clinical experiences and
• assess the effectiveness of accelerated programs.

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Goal 2 Develop and sustain the pipeline

• Key Strategy
• Conduct and evaluate a pilot to design a variety
  of recruitment efforts that includes building
  awareness of health care careers at the middle
  and high school levels identifies school to work
  transition strategies within the industry and
  develops outreach efforts targeted particularly
  to the immigrant community.

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Goal 2 Develop and sustain the pipeline (cont)

• Key Objectives
• recruit diverse populations into health care by
  increasing outreach efforts to those populations
  
• recruit new Americans into health care
• expand efforts to enhance retention of minority
  students at colleges and universities

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Goal 2 Develop and sustain the pipeline (cont)

• retrain dislocated workers for health care
  occupations and
• enhance the image of a diverse range of health
  care occupations to make them more desirable to
  young people, their parents, and school
  counselors.

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Goal 3 Nurture Innovation

• Key Strategies Nurture innovation around
• the development of new care giving roles,
  especially in long-term and assisted living
  settings
• the more rapid deployment of technology through
  the training of health information technology
  workers
• the application of technology to enhance
  productivity in the health care sector and to
  improve the quality of patient services.

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Goal 3 Nurture Innovation (cont)

• Key Objectives
• Identify and pilot careers of the future
• Identify and pilot methods to increase the
  efficiency and effectiveness of health care
  thought the application of information
  technology.

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What can you do?

• Participate in the Work Groups
• Recommend participants for the Work Groups

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What can you do?

• Communicate this initiative to your stakeholders
• You are an integral part of this process!

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Questions?
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Contacts

• Brian P. Foley, M. Ed., MHA, CPHQ, FACHE
• Special Assistant to the President
• Medical Education Campus Enterprise
• 6699 Springfield Center Drive
• Springfield, Virginia 22150-1931
• Phone [phone]
• Northern Virginia Health Care Workforce Alliance
• Northern Virginia Community College
• Educational Foundation
• 4001 Wakefield Chapel Road
• Annandale, Virginia 22003
• www. novahealthworkforce.org