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Governor’s Workforce Investment Board

Center for Industry Initiative

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Human Resources Services Administration

Workforce Planning Grant

March 2011

Coordinators

Mary O’Connor, Grant Project Manager

Email: moconnor@gwib.state.md.us

Phone: 410.767.8604

Lynn Reed, GWIB Executive Director

Email: lreed@gwib.state.md.us

Phone: 410.767.2131

Committee Chair

William G. “Bill” Robertson, President & CEO Adventist HealthCare, Inc.

Committee Members

A list of organizational members is on the back page.

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA)

The Governor’s Workforce Investment Board (GWIB) received a one-year $150,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA). The objective is to develop a strategy for implementing a 10-year workforce expansion blueprint ~ Preparing for Reform: Health Care 2020 ~ designed to increase Maryland’s primary care workforce by 10 to 25 percent over a 10- year period.

The GWIB has established a high-level health care workforce steering committee composed of GWIB board members, who have undertaken a rigorous planning process that will lead to development of the 10-year health care workforce expansion blueprint. Building on our well-established sector initiatives model, the GWIB is collaborating with a broad network of health care industry leaders, the education community, including two- and four-year higher education institutions, and the public workforce system.

The GWIB is using its nationally-recognized Center for Industry Initiatives five-phase methodology to assess health care workforce shortages and develop a plan to meet the program requirements outlined in the funding opportunity announcement, and for generating the 10-year workforce expansion blueprint.

This five-phase model will provide a structured method for convening private and public sector stakeholders to create goals, strategies, and deliverables that advance the needs of the State’s health care workforce and employers. This methodology is a critical element within Maryland’s cluster-based approach to workforce development and has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Labor as a national model worthy of replication. This will provide our project team and steering committee with a working template to assess and address health care workforce needs and issues.

Committee Activities and Updates

The Steering Committee determined in September 2010, that five regional listening tours will be conducted in order to obtain unique input from health care stakeholders in different regions of the State. Three of the five listening tours have been held, one in the Baltimore Metropolitan Area, the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area, and on the Eastern Shore in Cambridge. Attendees have included representatives from schools of medicine and nursing, statewide associations, county health departments, federally qualified health centers and health systems, as well as private practitioners.

Outcomes and Next Steps

All three regions have varying concerns. However, the following overarching themes have emerged:

■ the need for pre-practice training opportunities;

■ loan repayment assistance;

■ an increase in clinical practice sites; and

■ a remedy to unequal reimbursements for comparable services.

The additional two listening tours will be completed within a month, at which time the Steering Committee will reconvene.

Steering Committee Members

▪ William G. Robertson President and COO, Adventist HealthCare, Inc., Chair, GWIB

▪ Ronald Peterson President, Johns Hopkins Health System, Vice Chair, GWIB

▪ Alexander Sanchez Secretary, Department of Labor, Licensing & Regulation

▪ Elisabeth Sachs Secretary, Maryland Higher Education Commission

▪ Dr. Martha Smith President, Anne Arundel Community College

▪ Dr. Robert Caret President, Towson University

▪ Fred Mason, Jr. President, Maryland & District of Columbia AFL-CIO

▪ Patrice Cromwell Associate Director, Annie E. Casey Foundation

▪ John Reid Executive Vice President, 1199 SEIU

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