NoVaHealthFORCE

What is NoVaHealthFORCE:

• A coalition of private sector, business, government, community, healthcare, and educational leaders

• Mission: establish a long-term, business-driven, sustainable strategy to address the Northern Virginia healthcare worker shortage

What Did NoVaHealthFORCE Do?

• Commissioned PricewaterhouseCoopers Study of the healthcare workforce requirements of Northern Virginia

• Developed Comprehensive:– Strategies

– Action Plan

PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Studyof the

Northern Virginia Healthcare Workforce Shortage

Update January 2008

In Northern Virginia, without intervention by 2020:

– There will be 17,651 Allied Health and Nursing workforce vacancies

– The Nursing and Allied Health workforce estimated FTE worker shortage is estimated to grow to:

36%

These estimates do not consider impacts that may result from the Department of Defense Base Realignment (BRAC) initiatives

NoVaHealthFORCE Strategies

NoVaHealthFORCE Action Plan:• Action plan developed by eight working groups

• Working groups consisted of stakeholders from: education, healthcare industry, local, state and federal government, social service agencies, and economic development authorities

NoVaHealthFORCE Strategies:

Goal 1: Increase capacity within the healthcare 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

Capacity:

• Address the lack of nursing and allied health faculty

• Address the need for additional clinical training sites and clinical faculty

Pipeline:

• Increase awareness of the healthcare career fields

• Improve healthcare career preparedness in the school systems

• Provide upward mobility opportunities

• Facilitate foreign trained healthcare personnel to enter the workforce

Innovation:

• Enhance the adoption of Information Technology in Northern Virginia

• Harness the potential of the healthcare consumer

• Create innovative approaches in healthcare human resource management

Innovation (cont.):

• Nurture the career fields of tomorrow

• Develop a forum to share best practices

• Designate an organization to coordinate the implementation of these actions

Accomplishments and

Outcomes

NOVA Leadership in “Capacity” has resulted in:

• First CEO Roundtable of all the regions healthcare CEOs and College and University Presidents (6x)

• First regional meetings of College and University Dean’s of Nursing

• First Summit of regional Healthcare Nursing Executives and College and University Nursing Deans to address the shortage of clinical training shortages

• General Assembly Nursing Grant: $1.5 million**

• DOL Diagnostic Imaging Grant: $1.2 million**

– **Plus matching funds from the healthcare industry

NOVA Leadership in" Pipeline” has resulted in:

• NoVaHealthFORCE Web page

• DoL Grant for a Bridge Program

• Pathway to the Baccalaureate

• Collaboration with the region’s School District Superintendents

NoVaHealthFORCE Leadership in “Innovation” has resulted in:

• Collaboration with the Commonwealth’s Secretary of Technology

• Collaboration with GMU for the development of academic pathways in HIM

• Collaboration with the Northern Virginia Technology Council for the formation of a Health Technology Committee

• Community College Consortia to Educate Information Technology Professionals

NoVaHealthFORCE Leadership in "Innovation” has resulted in (cont.):• Invited as examples of innovation and “Best Practices” to give

healthcare workforce presentations at:

– The national ACHE Congress, Chicago, IL (2006)– The national AHIMA Convention in San Diego, CA (2006)– The IFHRO Congress in Seoul, Korea (2007)– CA Wellness Conference in Los Angeles, CA (2009)– PwC publication: What works* Healing the healthcare staffing

shortage

Lessons Learned

Accelerated “Op Tempo” :

– Need to improve career ladders to support students and industry

– Increasing need for continuing education for incumbent workers

– Increasing need for blending of academic pathways from Certificate (Credit/WDCE) to Associate to Bachelors to Masters level

Exploit “Force Multipliers” and “Unity of Effort” :

• Community Colleges have the ability to align:– High Schools (Prerequisites)– Community Institutions – Universities– Industry– Economic Development Authorities/ WIBs

Summary

NoVaHealthFORCE has been a leader in developing a regional model for addressing the healthcare workforce shortage:

• This model can be utilized for workforce development in other industries/regions

• The key is the synergy created by the alignment of all stakeholders brought together by the community college

www.NoVaHealthFORCE.org