Healthcare Education Industry Partnership

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Healthcare Education Industry Partnership

• Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
• Host Institution Mn State University, Mankato
• MF 124, Mankato, Mn 56001
• 507-389-2707 kristin.juliar_at_mnsu.edu

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The MnSCU System

• 7 State Universities
• 28 two year technical and community colleges
• 53 campuses in 46 communities
• About 150,000 students
• 7,000 annual healthcare degrees

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Minnesota State Colleges and Universities

• 35 Colleges and Universities
• Sites in 48 cities, 53 sites

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Role of the Healthcare Education Industry
Partnership

• Build a strong partnership between the healthcare
  industry and higher education
• Vision
• Improve the health of Minnesotans through a well
  educated and appropriately trained workforce,
  sufficient to meet the demand of citizens of
  Minnesota
• Mission
• Working in partnership to provide innovative
  leadership to guide the education and training of
  a high quality workforce in a rapidly changing
  industry

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Health Programs Completers by Type of
Institution, 2000
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Completers by Type Career Path, 2000 (All nurses
including advanced practice included in nursing
data primary care includes medicine, dentistry,
pharmacy allied health includes over 100
occupations)
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Completers by Type of Institution and Career
Path, 2000
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Health Program Awards by Length of Study
(1999)Over 70 health awards are from programs
of 2 years or less, although this trend is
beginning to change as more education is required
to meet complex patient care needs.
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Who is on the HEIP Council?

• Major Systems Mayo Clinic, Fairview, Allina,
  HealthPartners, HealthEast, Hennepin County
  Medical Center
• Rural providers Representing hospitals,
  clinics, and long term care from throughout the
  state
• Mn. Depts. of Health Human Services
  Corrections Children, Families and Learning
  Workforce and Economic Development
• University of Minnesota, MnSCU campuses, and
  private colleges and universities

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How was the vision created?

• Statewide strategic planning conference in
  January 2000
• Focus groups throughout state
• Creation of workgroups around key issues
  identified at conference
• Planning retreat by Partnership Council

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History of HEIP

• One of 5 Targeted Industry Projects, to address
  the states workforce needs through partnerships
  between employers and higher education
• Led by Minnesota State Colleges and Universities,
  with Mn State University, Mankato as host
  institution

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Process

• Initial steering committee developed structure
  and approach
• Focus on healthcare industry as the primary
  customer
• Kick off event statewide strategic planning
  conference
• Formed Partnership Council
• Focus groups around the state
• Strategic planning retreat with Council
• Formed workgroups around strategic initiatives

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Expanding Partnership

• Work Groups Formed
• Immigrants, Refugees, Underprepared (Commission
  on the Emerging Worker)
• Promoting Healthcare Careers
• Data Collection/Workforce Analysis
• Policy Committee Burning Platform
• Core Curriculum
• Each Group engages a larger circle of key
  customers and stakeholders over 200

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Policy Making

• Strategies call for a burning platform
• Key industry groups, state agencies and education
  worked together on policies
• Joint policy work with Mn Nurses Assoc, Mn
  Hosp.Assoc., Mn Dept Health, and other groups
• Joint strategy for how to move forward
  legislatively

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Policy Recommendations

• Workforce preparation and retention
• Educational capacity funding, faculty,
  clinicals, student recruitment, support for
  key programs
• Partnerships in workforce analysis and planning
• Rural issues
• Role of technology in education and healthcare
  delivery

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Strategic Initiatives

• Curriculum changes - a cored curriculum and
• Immersion ESL/Healthcare Education
• Forging alliances with key partners
• Finding a permanent home for our data collection
  work
• Systemic approach to key occupations
• K-12 Connections
• Future of faculty and clinical sites
• Promoting best practices in partnerships
• Regional planning for workforce education

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How were the policies developed?

• Policy recommendations gathered through two
  statewide conferences, focus groups throughout
  the state, six work groups
• Consultation with key groups including
  Colleagues in Caring, MN Center for Rural Health,
  Office of Rural Health and Primary Care, DHS, MN
  Hospital and Healthcare Partnership, MN Health
  and Housing Alliance
• Several hundred people involved in formulating
  the policy recommendations

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State Agency Involvement

• Department of Health
• Department of Children, Families and Learning
• Department of Human Services
• Department of Trade and Economic Development
• Department of Planning
• Department of Economic Security

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Joint Planning Structure

• Primary ?Healthcare Industry
• MnSCU
• Secondary ?State Agencies
• Secondary Education
• ESL/Welfare to Work

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What are the strategies ?

• Policy
• Creating a Policy Agenda in collaboration with
  hospital association, long term care
  associations, Mn. Nurses Association, University,
  Depts. Of Health and Human Services, Colleagues
  in Caring, National Institute for Healthcare
  Policy
• Promoting and tracking joint agenda through the
  legislative session
• Good year for long term care, others lost out
• New strategy planning for 2002 and 2003 in the
  works

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Core Curriculum

• Basic skills needed for working in healthcare
  setting
• Based on national skill standards
• Validation by healthcare industry
• Created by faculty/industry representatives
• First educational step to health professions

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Integration of Core Curriculum

• Integration with nursing assistant curriculum
  creates clearly articulated pathway in nursing
• Working with state Lab Directors and programs to
  create lab pathway
• High School Health Careers Curriculum articulated
  to post secondary education
• Emerging Worker project linked to core curriculum

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Secondary Education Linkage

• Through funding from Mn. Dept of Children,
  Families and Learning created K-12 Partnership
• Model curriculum based on Core Curriculum
  correlated to graduation standards
• Apprenticeship grant to develop model curriculum
• www.ISEEK.org

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Commission on the Emerging Worker

• Immigrants, refugees and people leaving welfare
  growing part of healthcare employment
• Broad partnership, over 100 organizations
• Model for increasing success in employment and
  education
• Pilot projects through workforce funding

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Listening to Community

• Healthcare Workforce Partnership
• Office of Rural Health and Primary Care, MHHP,
  Mn. Center for Rural Health, HEIP, CIC, DES
• Data presentations on workforce shortage designed
  for each region
• 12 regional forums, over 800 people, using
  recommendations to shape 2002 policy

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Key Professions

• Key shortages of nurses, lab technology, rad
  techs, long term care, EMS, dental, pharmacy
• Convened statewide strategy session on expanding
  nursing capacity with MHHP and Colleagues in
  Caring in October follow up committees on
  faculty development, distance ed, and clinical
• Allied health working groups creating solutions
  (lab and rad tech groups dental access
  initiative, EMS study group, and alliance around
  NA)
• Lab shortage strategy session planned for spring

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Distance Education

• Increase the availability of distance education
  options for nursing, laboratory technology and
  other health professions
• Improving access to pre-requisites and general
  education courses
• Providing greater access to students

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2003 Nursing Initiative

• Mn State Colleges and Universities initiative to
  address the nursing workforce shortage
• Based on recommendations from strategic planning
  conferences on nursing education capacity and
  distance education in nursing
• Address barriers related to access, faculty
  shortages, clinical education and finances
  through a partnership approach
• Seeks legislative appropriation and redirects
  current resources

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Nursing Workforce Initiative - Access

• Expand nursing enrollment to 2,780 additional
  graduates by 2008 (2.2 million per year).
  Legislative request
• Implement health careers curricula in the states
  high schools
• Increase healthcare employment and training
  opportunities for immigrants and refugees

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Nursing Initiative - Flexibility

• Create accelerated nursing curriculum for new
  nursing students
• Create accelerated nursing curriculum for people
  with an unrelated baccalaureate degree
• Provide financial support and technical
  assistance to campuses for accelerated and
  distance education implementation

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Nursing Initiative - Faculty

• Lack of faculty is limiting our ability to expand
  nursing education
• Provide support for a fast track on-line Masters
  in Nursing Education program
• Provide tuition assistance to nurses to obtain
  advanced degrees
• Recruit nurses in practice to become faculty

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Nursing Initiative -Partnerships

• Organizational support for the Healthcare
  Education Industry Partnership
• Improve data collection and research
• Provide a forum for key leaders to engage in
  policy development
• In partnership with hospitals and other health
  providers, improve access to clinical education
  sites

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Summary

• HEIP works with the healthcare industry, MnSCU
  campuses, University of Minnesota and private
  colleges
• Purpose is to address the workforce needs of
  Minnesotas healthcare industry
• MnSCUs new Chancellor is supportive of a focus
  on the states healthcare industry and the future
  of healthcare professions