Provider Education
Improving provider capacity is a long-term endeavor. Increasing the pipeline of health professionals training now is one way to add capacity in the future. Health professional schools can recruit and train providers to meet identified areas of need.
*Milestone details:
*Full name: Develop a strategy in conjunction with the state’s health professional school(s) to increase training of needed health professionals in identified priority areas.
*Relevance to the ACA:
The ACA makes changes to graduate medical education loans and includes incentives to increase training of medical professionals:
§5201 - Limits to 10 years the required service in primary care for medical students who receive federal loans.
§5203 - Creates a new loan program for primary care physicians.
§5205 - Allows loan forgiveness for allied health professionals.
§5508, §10501, §10908 - Expand options for loan forgiveness through the National Health Service Corps.
Several ACA sections authorize grants to support training: §5301 – primary care; §5302 – long term care workers; §5303 and §5304 – dental professionals; §5305 – Geriatric nursing; §5308 and §5309 - nursing education; §5508 – Teaching Health Centers; §5606 – rural providers; §10501 – preventive medicine.
§5202, §5310, §5311 - Expand loan options for nurses.
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District of Columbia
A new report from the American Association of Medical Colleges shows enrollment at medical schools is up. The AAMC survey also found that 75% of medical schools have policies or programs to encourage students to enter primary care.
Massachusetts
See below for a link to information on the Massachusetts' PHCAST grant program. In September 2010, HRSA awarded Massachusetts a grant under Section 5507 of the ACA, Personal and Home Care Aide State Training (PHCAST.) The purpose of PHCAST is to define core competencies across direct care workers, and to develop a training to serve as a base for further development of competency standardization.
The PHCAST Program aims to ensure that competent personal and home care aides have acquired skills that would be transportable to any job market in the nation, thus strengthening the direct-care workforce. The Massachusetts PHCAST Grant is a collaborative effort, bringing together state agency, professional and education partners.
http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eohhs2terminal&L=6&L0=Home&L1=Consumer&L2=Di...(PHCAST)+Grant+Program&sid=Eeohhs2&b=terminalcontent&f=eohhs_phcast_about&csid=Eeohhs2
Massachusetts
See below for information about the Office of Community Health Workers, supported by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH).
http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eohhs2terminal&L=5&L0=Home&L1=Government&L2=...
The Primary Care Office at DPH works to recruit and retain the highest quality health care professionals to serve as primary care providers in urban and rural areas of our state. See below for more information.
http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eohhs2terminal&L=5&L0=Home&L1=Government&L2=...
Massachusetts
For additional information on health care professional training please check out the following websites:
Massachusetts health workforce recruitment, retention or shortage designation information:
www.mass.gov/dph/primarycare
www.mass.gov/dph/hcworkforcecenter
The mission of the Massachusetts AHEC Network is to increase access to quality health care through the development of community-academic educational partnerships
http://www.umassmed.edu/ahec/index.aspx
Colorado
Having an adequate supply of nurse faculty – the professionals who train new nurses – has been a concern in Colorado for a number of years. And little appears to be changing. A new Colorado Health Institute (CHI) report finds that in 2010 Colorado’s nurse faculty shortage remains at least comparable to, and may be higher than, national faculty shortages. Much the Colorado faculty is nearing retirement age, and at the current rate of retirement and other factors, nursing education programs will have lost almost half of their current faculty by the 2019-20 academic year. CHI surveyed current nurse educators to get their views on supply and demand issues. It also gathered information from all 31 nursing programs on faculty vacancies and nursing student admission and enrollment to glean a picture of nurse education in the state.
District of Columbia
This presentation provides information on WA's health care personnel shortages, the goals of the Health Care Personnel Shortage Task Force to address this shortage, and the major initiatives in WA focused on this issue, including the submission of a Health Workforce Planning Grant under ACA. Access the presentation here: http://www.statereforum.org/sites/default/files/wahctfpresentation.pdf
District of Columbia
This presentation by the Oregon Health Authority outlines key action steps the state must take to implement its comprehensive health reform plan and includes elements of federal reform. Access it here: http://www.statereforum.org/sites/default/files/or_axn_plan_12.10.pdf
District of Columbia
This report from St. Luke's Health Initiatives discusses the implication of ACA on Arizona and various policy opportunities related to coverage and access, the healthcare system and special populations. Access the report here: http://www.statereforum.org/sites/default/files/impactarizonaoct-10.pdf
District of Columbia
This report discusses progress made by Maryland’s Health Care Workforce Workgroup and options for strengthening workforce capacity and the delivery system. Highlights include discussions on licensing, education, and provider recruitment.
Access the report here:
http://www.statereforum.org/sites/default/files/md_finalreportdeliverysy...