The links below each open a new window to display maps in PDF format, suitable for printing. Physicians Primary Care Physicians Physician Assistants Nurse Practitioners Certified Nurse Midwives Registered Nurses Licensed Practical Nurses Dentists Dental Hygienists Pharmacists Chiropractors Occupational Therapists Occupational Therapy Assistants Optometrists Podiatrists Practicing Psychologists Psychological Associates Physical Therapists Physical Therapist Assistants Respiratory… Read more »
Addressing the Allied Health Workforce Data Void
North Carolina’s Innovative Strategy to Confront the Challenge What Motivated this Project? Project Goals and Products Results and Outcomes Challenges How to Improve Workforce Planning Efforts
Collecting Allied Health Workforce Data
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Purpose is to provide an overview of the lessons learned from collecting allied health workforce data: What have we learned? What has gone well and what hasn’t gone so well? How can you collect workforce data to shape allied health workforce policy in your state?
Creating a Healthy Economy and a Healthy Population
Why We Need to Pay Attention to the Rising Demand for Allied Health Workers in NC How to count allied health workers Why should policy makers care about the allied health care workforce? Allied health job bacancy tracking project What’s needed? Better coordination of allied health workforce development efforts
Addressing “Stress” in the Health Care Workforce
Human Resources for Health The term “stress” is used to describe conditions where supply trends move differently than they have in the past Workforce problems and solutions Past and current research themes Questions to be asked
Shaping Health Workforce Policy through Data-Driven Analyses
The Sheps/NC AHEC Collaboration The NC Health Professions Data System (HPDS) Lessons Learned The Challenge: Defining AHEC role in context of declining funding and limited national capacity for workforce planning Moving Forward: Technical Assistance
Allied Health Workforce Planning: What North Carolina Can Learn from New Zealand
Policy context of allied health What can NC learn from New Zealand? Allied health job vacancy tracking report: demand-side data Are We Creating Intelligence
The Status of Health Professions Diversity in North Carolina
Diversity and emerging workforce shortages Where do the data come from and what are strengths/limitations? What does health workforce diversity currently look like in the state? How has workforce diversity changed over time? Where are NC’s diverse practitioners educated? Data reflections: What does it all mean?
Meeting the Demands of a Transformed Health Care System
Retooling and Reconfiguring North Carolina’s Health Workforce to Meet the Demands of a Transformed Health Care System Why we need to retool and reconfigure the workforce Current challenges Future challenges What is needed to move toward a transformed system? Alignment of AHEC traditional mission with goals of health reform
Allied Health Vacancies and Health Workforce Diversity in NC
Overview of the NC HPDS Review of the fall 2011 NC allied health vacancy report Review of NC health workforce diversity (2009 data)
Meeting the Needs of a Transformed Health System
Reconfiguring and Retooling the Workforce To Meet the Needs of a Transformed Health System Current policy context Health workforce planning in the past Health workforce planning in the future What can we learn from New Zealand?
Are We Preparing the Allied Health Workforce?
What will North Carolina need now and in the future? Rapid health system change is driving increase use of allied health workforce A more flexible use of workers is needed to improve care delivery and efficiency New health care roles need simultaneous change in payment, regulation and education to be sustained (this is the three… Read more »
Education Models to Cultivate the Rural Health Workforce
Health system is transforming; existing workers take on new roles There are imbalances in the geographic location, specialty and practice settings of health professionals New and existing workforce will shift from acute to ambulatory,community- and home-based settings Career ladders missing, have broken rungs
Webinar: Meeting the Needs of a Transformed Health System 4-09-14
How can we transform the workforce to meet the needs of a transformed health system? Presenter: Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP, Director, Program on Health Workforce Research and Policy, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, UNC-Chapel Hill When: April 9th, 2014 at 2:00pm EDT Length: 1 hour Slides: HWTACwebinar3_Fraher_9Apr2014.pdf Description: Much discussion is underway… Read more »
Meeting the Needs of a Transformed Health System 3-25-14
How can we transform the workforce to meet the needs of a transformed health system? March 25, 2014: North Carolina Community College System, CE Leadership Institute Framing this presentation People ask us: “Will North Carolina have the right number of health professionals it needs now and in the future?” I’d like to reframe as: What… Read more »
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