Health Care
The following workforce issues have been identified by senior executives within the health care industry:
Pipeline: Recruitment and Retention
- Increasing available labor pool
- Increasing diversity and seeking workers from non-traditional labor pools
- Reducing turnover
Skill Development
- Entry-level worker preparation
- Incumbent worker training
- Need for targeted and specialized areas of skills
Capacity of Education and Training Providers
- Filling the need for academic and clinical instructors
- Filling the need for facilities and resources
- Aligning employer requirements and curricula
Sustainability: Infrastructure, Leadership and Policy
- Filling the need for sustainable partnerships at national, state, and local levels
- Locating opportunities to leverage funding and other resources
- Using planning tools (data, projections, and information systems)
- Understanding policy issues including those of regulation
