Health Care Workforce Alliance

Mission

The Health Care Workforce Alliance promotes a stronger, mutually supportive workforce development system where employers, workers, and workforce education and training providers collaborate synergistically to build skills, productivity, service quality, and training efficacy. This effort will strengthen our health care delivery organizations, enhance career opportunities for residents, improve healthcare delivery outcomes, and support the physical and economic health of our communities.

Guiding Principles

Recruit

Shared priority of employers and Workforce Development Entities
Broadening and deepening collaborative industry outreach to promote health care industry careers
Work towards a central clearinghouse for information, internships, tours (physical and virtual), job shadowing, etc.
Youth Career Pathways Academy to include youth opportunities such as youth options and Youth Apprenticeship
Outreach and create access to disadvantaged/underemployed/low skill adults
Work towards a centralized streamlined compliance processing (also under 'Train," below)

Train

Shared priority of employer, education, and Workforce Development Entities;
capacity exists primarily with educators within the Alliance
Identify training needs and curriculum driven by feedback or demand from employers
Continue, initiate, and expand entry level training for industry-specific positions
Capacity development for public and private K-12 and higher education informed by industry
Target career pathway training for low-skilled adults who are not considering health care occupations

Retain & Advance

Shared priority of employers, education, and Workforce Development Entities; primarily employer responsibility
Shared training for workers to increase capacity at current job (leadership, communication, diversity)
Shared training for workers to advance to new jobs in shortage areas
Shared training for common elements of career pathways

Governance

Membership is composed of representatives from the Health Care Industry, and other organizations playing a supportive role to the Health Care Industry such as: Education, Economic Development, Labor, Workforce Development and Community-Based Organizations. Download the HCWA Governance document (PDF).

Chair: Joel Davidson, South Central Wisconsin AHEC

Past Chair: Nicole Clapp, Grant Regional Health Center

Committee Work

Clinical Passport Ad Hoc Committee

The Clinical Passport Ad Hoc Committee will work to develop a standardized set of information that students need to complete before entering clinicals.

Grants Committee

The Grants Subcommittee examines the investments to date and the investments impact and ask the question "what next?" This committee will be making recommendations to the Executive Committee and the full Alliance as to what additional financial resources need to be sought to forward the Alliance's work.

Resource Mapping Committee

The Resource Mapping Subcommittee is working to map efforts of workforce development for health care within in the region and at the state level. Explore the map to find health care workforce development offerings for K-12 students, pre-health professionals, and incumbent workers across the state.

Resources

Wisconsin Health Care Organizations

Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative

Wisconsin Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Home Page

Wisconsin Association for Perinatal Care

Wisconsin Association of Health Plans

Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development Healthcare

Wisconsin Health Care Association

Wisconsin Homecare Organization

Wisconsin Hospital Association

Wisconsin Medical Society

Wisconsin Nurses Association

Wisconsin Organization of Nurse Executives

Wisconsin Public Health Association

Health Care Occupation & Job Search Sites

Discover Nursing is a valuable resource for everything you need to know about the field of nursing, with tools to help from training to finding a job.

Health Resources and Services Administration is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and is the primary Federal agency for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured, isolated or medically vulnerable.

HOSA is a student organization whose mission is to promote career opportunities in health care and to enhance the delivery of quality health care to all people. Through this web site, members, advisors, and guests can access a wide array of services from basic organization information to online membership services.

Guide to Nursing Resources is a site that contains links to resources for everything from career information to nursing journals and newsletters.

Rural Health Careers Wisconsin is your one-stop connection to hundreds of career opportunities in rural Wisconsin. Here you will find a wide range of clinical and non-clinical positions offered by healthcare providers in Wisconsin.

Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative Services outlines all of the professional, educational, and technical services offered by RWHC.

Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative Leadership Newsletter contains the latest information from the RWHC Leadership Issue.

Health Care Workforce Alliance Meeting Materials

November 17, 2011

Center for Nursing Excellence Presentation (PPT)

July 19, 2011

Meeting Agenda

Registered Nursing Forecasting Model PowerPoint Presentation

Registered Nursing Forecasting Model Handout

WINNERS Project Information

Middle College Project Brochure

March 11, 2011

Wisconsin Registered Nurse Supply and Demand Forecasting Model: Brief Summary

Clinical Passport Discussion

Department of Labor Pathways Innovation Grant proposal overview

HC Alliance Agenda - March 11, 2011

Institute of Medicine Report (PowerPoint): The Future of Nursing; Leading Change, Advancing Health

Madison College HIT Grant Powerpoint Presentation

Workforce Planning Grant for Wisconsin: Strategic Focus Document

Articles & Reports

Wisconsin Public and Community Health Registered Nurse Workforce Report / A report from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS), Division of Public Health (DPH) / January 2013

AONE Guiding Principles for the Aging Workforce / A publication of the American Organization of Nurse Executives

The Future of Nursing; Leading Change, Advancing Health (Summary) / A publication of the Institute of Medicine (IOM)

Standardizing the Patchwork of Data on the U.S. Health Workforce: Q&A with Jean Moore, Director of the SUNY Center for Health Workforce Studies / A publication of the Health Workforce Information Center

Wisconsin Badgers Spring Football Game Proceeds Will Go To UW-Madison School of Nursing / Press Release of the University of Wisconsin

‘WINNERS’ Community Health Partnership Secures Million Dollar Grant / News release from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing