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That's one way to solve the healthcare provider/nursing shortage! 'There's only a workforce shortage of the future if you don't do anything today' - Michael Dowling, Northwell Health's CEO "The initiative was announced Jan. 17, with individual health systems and school systems due to release more details about their respective healthcare high schools in the weeks to come. Northwell's high school will be newly established in Queens, N.Y., with a focus on diagnostic medicine, physical therapy, mental health and nursing." I think it's quite brilliant. What do you think? Do you think this is on the right track to ensure we have enough qualified healthcare professionals for the future? #healthcare #healthcaremarketing #healthcarerecruitment #recruitment

Hospitals are desperate for workers...NY Times. Invest in technology for tasks that do not require logic. Will the lack of healthcare workers trend continue? Are you doing things the same way you always have and hoping for a change? What's your strategy? With the limited HC workers you are able to get, what roles will they want to train for? We can help.

A collaboration between the NHS, social care and academic institutions across the West Midlands will inspire registered healthcare, social work and public health students to consider a range of research careers. The NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) has pledged £34.9m to encourage the regulated healthcare and social work professions into research roles as part of the new INSIGHT: Inspiring Students into Research scheme. This will accelerate the numbers of nurses, midwives, pharmacists, social workers and allied health professionals ultimately leading and delivering research and generating evidence to underpin best available care. The West Midlands NIHR INSIGHT Consortium, led by the University of Birmingham, has been awarded £2.5m to provide fully funded research master’s courses to early career healthcare professionals and social workers. Working with local NHS Trusts, the students will be able to take the courses full or part time so they can continue their career pathways providing care across the West Midlands. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/ePquS8Bt #health #healthcare #socialwork #healthresearch #publichealth #research #researchopportunities #birmingham

As CEO of LifeLong Medical Care, I'm deeply concerned about the critical workforce shortages facing community health centers nationwide. These centers, which serve over 30M Americans regardless of their ability to pay, are the backbone of our healthcare system for underserved communities. A 2024 The Commonwealth Fund survey of US community health centers paints a stark picture: - 77% report shortages in mental health providers - 70% lack primary care physicians and nurses - 69% struggle with a shortage of support service providers These shortages, driven by competition with higher-paying health systems and lingering COVID-19 burnout, threaten our ability to deliver essential care. But at LifeLong, we're tackling this challenge head-on. We've implemented innovative workforce development programs: - To help meet the need for qualified community-based mental health professionals, we created Field Placement Internships, supervised psychotherapy training for graduate students in our various community health settings. - Our AmeriCorps Health Fellows Program is building a pipeline for careers in community health. I'm proud to say that several recent graduates have joined our team. - We're part of the East Bay Consortium's Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Fellowship. This rigorous 12-month program, in partnership with La Clinica and UCSF School of Nursing, trains nurse practitioners and physician assistants in community health. The results speak for themselves - 6 out of 7 recent APP graduates chose to continue working at LifeLong! While we're making strides, more support is needed to address this national staffing crisis. I echo The Commonwealth Fund’s call for Congress to reauthorize the Community Health Center Fund. 🚨 What strategies has your organization implemented to address healthcare workforce shortages? Let's share ideas and work together to strengthen our community health systems 🤝. 📰 Read more about the survey in the Nonprofit Quarterly: https://shorturl.at/ygf1r #CommunityHealth #WorkforceDevelopment #HealthcareEquity #MentalHealthMatters #NursePractitioners

This is a very American healthcare system formula blending public and private spheres - and promising, I think - for cultivating the next generation of health care workers: Philanthropic dollars--> Newly created public high schools + hospital-created and co-taught curriculum --> Guarantees for hospital employment right after graduation (or preparedness for post-secondary education) = Pipeline to address #healthcareworkforce shortages in roles that have family-sustaining wages, and hopefully results in a workforce that reflects the demographics of the communities they serve. Most programs are in cities, but I'll be particularly interested in the programs in #ruralhealth areas of Demopolis, AL with UAB Medicine and Northeast TN with Ballad Health. https://lnkd.in/gViyrSP6

Another profound reason why partnerships with educational institutions who provide a full life cycle suite of educational programming is super important. Did you know that Herzing University partners with select districts and community organizations like the United Way and boys and girls clubs to provide programming through course bundles and diploma programs that will prepare them for critically needed roles within health systems? These initiatives are most powerful and productive when we have a healthcare system partner who is willing to financially sponsor and employee these students. The cost is certainly outweighed by the ROI of filling these needed roles and continuing to develop these individuals in the next step of their career ladder at that organization, thus creating a pipeline of prepared and invested talent.

I love that so many people are investing in #healthcareeducation and trying to figure out how to increase the pipeline of people coming into the industry. But we have to solve the "#retention" issue, or we are subjecting more people to #burnout, #compassionfatigue, and #moralinjury. This Bloomberg Philanthropies article introduces an initiative to invest $250 million to create new high schools around the country focused on training and graduating students directly into high-demand healthcare jobs. Ten communities in six states will get these newly established programs which become a feeder for specific healthcare partners. This seems like an amazing opportunity to lean into #retentionstrategies targeted at these new grads to figure out how to keep them at the bedside and in the healthcare industry. The leaky pipeline must be fixed to affect true change! #nursing #healthcare #staffingshortage #nursingshortage #staffingsolutions #healthcareonlinkedin #nursesonlinkedin

Cultural differences are often overlooked, but can significantly impact how students experience and understand health, and even how they interact with school nurses. Ignoring these differences can lead to miscommunication, missed diagnoses, and even exacerbate existing health disparities. In this month's article we take a look at key strategies school nurses can undertake the better understand every one of their students' healthcare needs, regardless of race, religion, economics, or language. #SchoolNurse #SchoolNursing #CulturalCompetance #DEI #Inclusion

This week #CHCP San Antonio was featured in the @SanAntonioReadyToWork Newsletter! Meeting the needs of students and employers at the College of Healthcare Professions  Eric Bing is the Chancellor and CEO of the College of Healthcare Professions (CHCP) a RTW training provider and educational institution offering certification and degree programs in a variety of healthcare pathways. CHCP has been in Texas for 35 years. The school will celebrate its 20th year in San Antonio next year. He is honored to be a part of the RTW program to not only help students achieve their goals. "When the partnership first came together through the #AlamoColleges, we knew that there was a gap in training for adult learners," Bing said. "Some students can't go to school five days a week. CHCP works it out where you can do one or two days on campus. Through RTW, we offer continual wraparound services and do it in a debt-free environment." CHCP is known for creating education success for adult learners who have complicated and busy lives. Some students are caretakers of sick parents, or have young children. In one circumstance, CHCP helped a student who lost multiple family members to COVID. It aligns with RTW in many ways, including the mission to work with local employers to help fill their workforce needs. "I think it's a great collaboration," Bing said. "This is local. We have somewhere around 1,000 employers in San Antonio desperate for healthcare professionals right now. The lack of healthcare professionals is limiting access to care. This partnership is another way to broaden the talent pipeline for our employers." Bing calls the partnership with RTW a gamechanger for the students and their families. Bing is hoping that this legacy continues for a long time - a legacy of helping students achieve personal success in their lives and careers, as well as providing employers with a skilled workforce. He says it creates a sense of belonging for adult learners and employers alike. "The more we build relationships focused on the non-traditional student or new traditional student, then we can create extraordinary success in San Antonio," Bing said. "The RTW program is helping keep the students debt free and moving them on the pathway to success. That's powerful." To learn more about the programs at the San Antonio campuses visit chcp.edu

This is particularly thrilling to learn about, as young people with hearts bent toward health sciences are often steered into the comparative sterility of the lockstep march of STEM toward a medical school education. Integrating health science education directly into schools gives our teens not only the irreplaceable opportunity to apprentice, but to "try on" the bioscience field and explore the many facets of delivering care that are outside strict allopathic medicine, and to recognize their value NOW, not only at some impossibly far away time in the future, if ever. This initiative will enable young ones to feel valuable and contributing, which is the greatest tonic against the lure of escapism of substances, and ameliorate the helplessness and hopelessness that runs with the teen years, with, I anticipate, a concomitant reduction of the incidence of depression. BRAVO!