Transcript Combined Presentation Health Care Talent Development

New Jersey Partnership to
Build a Strong Health Care
Workforce
New Jersey’s Health Care Cluster
Aaron Fichtner, Ph.D. Assistant Commissioner, New Jersey
Department of Labor and Workforce Development
Ashley Conway, Senior Policy Analyst, State Employment and
Training Commission
Sandy Lopacki, Coordinator, New Jersey Healthcare Talent
Network at Rutgers University
Key Principles for Talent Development
• Grounded in an understanding of the workforce
needs of industries
• Connected to other workforce and education
intermediaries
• Connected to economic development efforts, when
appropriate
• Focused on using data to inform program and policy
decisions
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Implement
Programs
Understand
Talent
Needs
Develop Strategy
Industry Focused Labor
Market Intelligence
Implement
Programs
Understand
Talent
Needs
Develop Strategy
Talent Development Strategy
Labor Market Information as a Tool to Inform Talent
Development Strategies
Employer
Feedback
Industry /
Occupation
Data
Education /
Training Data
Transaction
Indicators
New Jersey Health Care Highlights
• There are roughly 21,300 establishments employing about
421,000 people of all ages, genders, races, and educational
backgrounds in New Jersey in 2010
• From 1990 through 2010, the health care sector has added
164,700 new jobs, while all other private sector
employment has had a net decline of 11,100 jobs
• Health care is the only industry that has added jobs in the
state every year from 1990 through 2010 while increasing
its share of jobholding from 7.5 percent in 1990 to 11.3
percent in 2010
The health care industry has been the driving force of
employment in New Jersey over the last two decades
From 1990 through 2010, the health care
sector has added 164,700 new jobs, while all
other industries combined have had a net gain
of only 54,700
(1990=100)
Employment in Ambulatory Health Care
Services and Nursing and Residential Care
Facilities has nearly doubled over the last 20
years
Slow, and recently stagnant, growth in
Hospital employment has led to it being the
laggard among Health Care’s three major
components
Source: Current Employment Statistics
With employment surpassing 420,000, the health care sector
accounts for over 11% of all employment in the state in 2010, up
from 7.5% in 1990
Ambulatory Health Care Services surpassed
Hospitals as the top employer in the Health
Care sector in 2003, and has widened the gap
every subsequent year
Nursing and Residential Care Facilities, the
smallest component, has grown more than
three times the rate (3.1%) of Hospitals (1.0%)
since 1990
Together, the three Health Care components
have grown by 2.4% annually since 1990,
compared to only 0.3% for total nonfarm
employment and a job decline for all private
sector excluding health care
Source: Current Employment Statistics
60,925
Health Care
Employment in
Bergen County
The health care sector offers opportunities for employment for
all levels of education and experience…
Source: Occupational Employment Statistics Survey
Employment status and personal earnings of individuals
in the health care industry
Source: American Community Survey
Gender, racial, and ethnic profile of New Jersey’s health
care work force
Females outnumber males by a 3 to 1
margin in the health care workforce
The workforce is far more diverse than
average, particularly among the black and
Asian population
The workforce has just slightly fewer
Hispanics than average
Source: American Community Survey
From 2003 to 2009, the total number of degrees and certificates
awarded has increased by 82%
Source: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System
The health care industry has steadily gained employment
over the last 20 years and will continue that trend through
2018
Employment is still growing, but getting
slower
• Grew by 3% per year during 1990s
• Grew by 2% per year during 2000s
• Projected to grow by 1.3% from 20082018
There will still be many opportunities for
employment as the industry struggles to
increase workforce for growing demand while
also replacing workers who will retire
The health care cluster is projected to add
over 56,000 jobs, and account for more
than 45% of net job growth from 20082018
Source: Current Employment Statistics
New Jersey Industry and Occupational Projections
Industry Focused Labor
Market Intelligence
Implement
Programs
Understand
Talent Needs
Develop Strategy
Health Care Workforce
Council
The outlook is bright, but…
The outlook for health care employment is bright. From 2008 through 2018, it is
projected that more than 56,000 jobs will be added, an annual increase of 1.3 percent
- NJ Dept. of Labor and Workforce Development
Projected significant
growth and critical
shortages
Expanding
ambulatory and
home care
Fewer jobs available and
unemployment in some
health care occupations
Constricting acute care
provided in institutions
What health care jobs will be in demand?
• Trends
• Employer needs
Trends that impact the health care workforce:
Models
Pipelines
Economics
National Health Care
Reform and
fundamental changes
in how health care is
delivered
Aging population
with greater health
care needs
Severe economic
downturn
Moving from
hospital-based care
to community-based
care
Current health Care
workforce at or
nearing retirement
Rising costs and high
utilization
New health care
technologies and
knowledge
Unemployment of
licensed
professionals and
predicted critical
shortages
Changes in
reimbursement
(who, what and
where) and financial
incentives
Potential health care
coverage of 450,000
more NJ residents
in 2014
New Jersey Health Care Workforce Council
Employers
Education
Workforce
The Health Care Workforce Council mission is to strengthen New Jersey’s health
care workforce to support a sustainable, quality health care system for the good of
the State and all of its residents.
The Council makes recommendations to the State Employment and Training
Commission to ensure quality workforce investments to meet the needs of health
care employers for a highly-trained and diverse workforce, which will benefit
individuals who are starting or advancing in health care careers.
Health care workforce issues being addressed by the Council:
Data
The need for shared, coordinated
state health care workforce data
that is meaningful and accessible.
Models
Need for greater
collaborative learning
linking fields/disciplines and
transcending the isolation
of silos.
How will changes in health
care delivery change the
health care workforce?
Pipelines
Pathways
What is the current health
care occupation demand
and supply? What will be
needed in the future?
Clarify health care career
pathways and improve
career entry and up
skilling.
Greater alignment of
training and education
with current and future
workplace needs.
New Jersey Health Care Talent Network
To leverage workforce development resources to their fullest through coordinated
communication, greater sector understanding, and the encouragement of innovation.
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Conduct outreach
Cultivate relationships
Link likely partners
Facilitate communication
between stakeholders
Innovate
Sector Resource
Coordinate
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Provide sector intelligence
Qualitative data collection
(employer needs)
Identify and help mitigate
barriers to workforce
development
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Support partners’ initiatives
Collect and seed best practices
Initiate “short term fix”
solutions and improvements
to the health care workforce
system
Speak with employers
Systematically, regularly, often
In forums where HR executives already go
NJHA, Primary care association, Home care, ambulatory groups
Health Care Talent Network
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New, “work in progress”
Collaborative
Data-driven
Innovative
Pilot and share best
practices
First steps
• Exploring ways to train coders for high demand IP
positions
• Developing models for veterans to transfer training
to credit in health care ed programs
• Planning summits with employers and university
Careers Offices
• Testing concept of virtual job fairs
discussion