HEALTHCARE WORKFORCE
INITIATIVE
2007-09 Biennium
Legislatively-approved
Investment in
Oregon’s Community Colleges
Health Careers Pathways Summit
April 10, 2008
Valley River Inn, Eugene
Facilitators
Jo Bell
Healthcare Policy Advisor
CCWD
Wayne Fanno
Education and Workforce Specialist
CCWD
Today’s Meeting
• Background on Healthcare Workforce
Initiative
• The Healthcare Workforce Initiative
• Overview of Initiative Components
• What’s Next & What to expect
Background on Healthcare Workforce Initiative
History
• Early 2006, high level discussions around budget
preparation
• Five players
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CCWD
OIT / OUS
OHSU
Governor’s Office
Oregon Healthcare Workforce Institute
Overarching statement about healthcare workforce
needs and desire to address the problem with a
coordinated approach
Background on Healthcare Workforce Initiative
Issues identified for Request
• Community college issues
• Demand issues
Background on Healthcare Workforce Initiative
Community college issues
• Lack of capacity
• Capacity clustered along I-5
• Rural & frontier populations insufficient to
support developing and sustaining expensive
healthcare programs
• Lack of technology infrastructure
• Shortage of qualified faculty
Background
Demand Issues
• Demand distributed all across Oregon
• Increased cost to students to travel or move
for education
• Never (well, rarely) return to fill jobs at ‘home’
• 28% increase in healthcare workers needed
• Powerful economic impact for all communities
if current and emerging healthcare jobs are
filled
Solution
• Healthcare Workforce Initiative
• Approved by the Legislature in 2007
• $2.2 million total Initiative
• Resources to be used in the 2007-09 biennium
(through June 30, 2009)
Solution
• Uses a statewide approach to increase
instructional capacity through a coordinated
statewide effort involving all 17 community
colleges
Solution
• Focuses on implementing healthcare
workforce education programs through
improved access, transferability and
articulation across all 17 community colleges
and their OIT/OUS & OHSU partners
Solution
• Emphasizes distance and distributive delivery
of healthcare education programs to assure
access to education and to fill healthcare
positions in all communities around the state
• Assures that the capacity available is utilized
to the fullest extent
Solution
• Aggregates students distributed by distance or
time into the same class, allowing every “seat”
to be filled even when there are not enough
students (or enough classes) to satisfy the
demand in any one place or schedule
Solution
• Provides a “capacity valve” to allow
continuation of needed healthcare programs
while offering individual community colleges
the ability to expand or contract their
enrollment in a particular program or course
Solution
• Encourages sharing of limited resources and
faculty
• Provides healthcare programs and courses on
a statewide basis to meet local needs
Initiative Components
• Programs and Courses
• Program Sharing Agreements
• Faculty & Student Supports
Initiative Components
• Programs and Courses
– Development or conversion of healthcare
workforce education programs and courses
to a distance format for statewide anytime
anyplace delivery
– Simulation needs
– Distance learning technology
Initiative Components
• Program Sharing Agreements
– Articulation, transfer, resource sharing,
statewide delivery
– Career Pathways
Initiative Components
• Faculty & Student Supports
– Faculty training for distance
– Preceptor training for distance
– Student supports (advising, mentoring, financial aid,
testing, technical support, on-line library resources)
Program / Course Development RFP
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New Release date
Response Deadline
Completion Date
Walk through of RFP Sections
Use of RFI info
Program / Course Development RFP
• Outcomes
– Development of a standard model for “healthcare
statewide consortium programs”
– Replicability for new healthcare program and
courses needed around the state
Program / Course Development RFP
• Outcomes (cont)
– Sustainability of at least one “healthcare statewide
consortium program” for each healthcare profession
appropriate for community college delivery
– Systemic process for how community colleges develop
and offer new healthcare programs and courses
– Incorporation of courses into career pathways
roadmaps and Career Pathways Certificates whenever
possible
Program / Course Development RFP
• Looking for –
– Ability to meet statewide identified needs
– Availability of course or program via
distance/distributive delivery
– Ability to leverage other grant activities and
sources
– Collaborative approach involving all community
colleges
– Program development only
Program / Course Development RFP
• Overall RFP
– Standard format
– Less is more
– Quarterly meetings for sharing, assistance
– Only one component of Initiative
Program / Course Development RFP
• We are excited!
• We want to assist and facilitate
• We know that we can do this together.
Questions?
Contact Information
Wayne Fanno
[email protected]
503-378-8648 X374
Jo Bell
[email protected]
503-931-5057