Transcript New York State Workforce Investment Board Healthcare Workforce Development Subcommittee Planning Grant 10-284 Overview Affordable Care Act With passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

New York State Workforce
Investment Board
Healthcare Workforce
Development Subcommittee
Planning Grant 10-284
Overview
Affordable Care Act
With passage of the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act (ACA) and resultant
expansion of health insurance to
previously uninsured or underinsured
populations, the demand for health care
professionals will substantially increase.
Multi-faceted Strategy to Expand
Primary Care Workforce Under ACA
• Increase access to providers in underserved areas –
expand National Health Service Corps
• Focus on career training – USDOL funding efforts to
develop career pathways in healthcare industry
• Expand tax benefits to health professionals working in
underserved areas – exclude student loans from taxes if
working in underserved areas
• Build primary care capacity through Medicare and
Medicaid – funding slots for primary care physicians
• Provide financial assistance for students
HRSA Planning and
Implementation Grants
ACA created Prevention and Public Health Fund –
FFY 2010 - $250M used to:
• Create additional residency slots ($168M)
• Support physician assistant training in primary care
($32M)
• Increase number of nurse practitioners trained ($30M)
• Establish nurse practitioner led clinics ($15M)
• Encourage states to plan for and address health
professional workforce needs ($5M)
Purpose and Goals of HRSA’s Workforce Development
Planning and Implementation Grants
Purpose: provide resources to states to complete state
level comprehensive healthcare workforce development
planning to address health workforce shortages.
• Assess healthcare workforce supply and demand within states and
nationally to identify key shortage areas.
• Develop uniform data collection across States on licensed health
professionals.
• Encourage states to develop plans to expand their primary care Full
Time Equivalent (FTE) health care workforce by between 10 – 25%
over ten (10) years to meet the expected demand for health care
services.
Required Activities for a Planning Grant
The State partnership must carry out all of the
following activities:
• Analyze state labor market information in order to create
healthcare career pathways for students and adults,
including dislocated workers;
• Identify current and projected state or regional high
demand healthcare occupations within the state for
purposes of planning career pathways;
Required Activities - continued
• Identify existing resources to recruit, educate or train,
and retain a skilled healthcare workforce and strengthen
partnerships;
• Describe the academic and healthcare industry skill
standards for high school graduation, for entry into
postsecondary education, and for various credentials
and licensure;
• Describe State secondary and postsecondary education
and training policies, models or practices for the
healthcare sector; including career information and
guidance.
Required Activities - continued
• Identify Federal or State policies or rules that act as
barriers to developing a coherent and comprehensive
health care workforce development strategy and a plan
to resolve these barriers.
• Participate in programmatic evaluation and reporting
activities.
NY’s Proposal
• Establish Healthcare Workforce Development
Subcommittee (HWDS)
• Hire HWDS Coordinator to keep project on track
• Contract with The Center for Health Workforce
Studies to conduct specialized study for the
project
• Establish workgroups to accomplish key
requirements of the grant
Proposed Workgroups
• Healthcare Credentials: inventory credentials and licensing
requirements of selected healthcare occupations, describe the
competencies and identify promising practices.
• Asset Mapping: map Federal, State and private resources that can
be used to recruit, educate, train or retain individuals in selected
healthcare occupations.
• Career Pathways: identify career pathways associated with
selected occupations – prepare inventory of existing training and
education programs to support pathways – identify gaps.
• Healthcare Rules and Regulations: identify Federal and State
rules/regulations that inhibit comprehensive healthcare workforce
development and make recommendations to address.
Time Line
• September 30, 2010 through September 28,
2011
• BUT must have completed all requirements for
planning grant before eligible to apply for
implementation grant.
• Anticipate due date to apply for implementation
grants will be mid-July 2011.
Implementation Grants
Average Grant: $1,500,000 per year for two years
with the possibility of a third year for high achieving projects
An eligible State partnership receiving an implementation
grant must:
• Identify and convene regional leadership to discuss opportunities to
engage in statewide health care workforce development planning,
including the potential use of competitive grants to improve the
development, distribution, and diversity of the regional health care
workforce; the alignment of curricula for health care careers; and the
access to quality career information and guidance and education
and training opportunities;
Implementation grants - continued
• In consultation with regional leaders, take appropriate steps to
reduce Federal, State, or local barriers to a comprehensive and
coherent strategy, including changes in State or local policies to
foster coherent and comprehensive health care workforce
development activities; and
• Develop a statewide strategy that addresses short- and long-term
healthcare workforce development supply versus demand.
• At least 60% of funds must be competitively awarded by the State
partnership to encourage regional partnerships to address health
workforce development needs.
• Each State must provide a match of 25% of the amount of the grant
to carry out the activities supported by the grant.
Timelines for Planning Grant
Performance Benchmark
1. Completion of an analysis of health care
labor market information
Target Date
March 15, 2011
2. Identification of current and projected
high demand health care occupations
within NYS
3. Identification of existing Federal, State,
and private resources (asset mapping)
March 15, 2011
4. Completion of a description of the
academic and health care industry skill
standards
5. Completion of a description of the State
secondary and postsecondary education
and training policies, models, or practices
for the health care sector
March 15, 2011
6. Identification of barriers and
development of resolution plan
April 15, 2011
June 15, 2011
June 15, 2011
Next Steps
• Select Date for January meeting (conference call capability
available)
• Become familiar with materials in folders
• Identify potential workgroup members
• Consider workgroup structure, workgroup charges, chairs, schedule
of meetings
Proposed Agenda for January meeting
:
• Elect Chair/Co-Chair for HWDS
• Establish work groups:
– Chairs, Co-Chairs
– Workgroup Charges
– Schedule of meetings
• Identify healthcare occupations for the focus of the planning grant
• Discuss healthcare survey options for the Center for Health
Workforce Studies
• Factor in process/effort to apply for implementation grant