PARTNERSHIPSKeys for

Surviving the Health

Care Shortages

Three Examples of Partnerships

• ASPEN High School– Alternative District High School– Dual credit offering

• CEDA-Robbins– Community Economic Development Association– Targeted programs with high employment rates

and/or grant approval

• University of Chicago Hospitals Academy– Partnered with MVCC’s A.D.N. Program– UCHA Scholarship for employees of UCHA

MVCC Remedies to the Health Care Shortages:

• History and overview

• Responses to challenges

• Funding approaches

• Barriers

• Lessons learned

Health Care Industry Worker Shortages

Employment of wage and salary workers in health services by industry segment, 2000 and projected change 2000-10(Employment in the thousands)

Industry segment Employment, 2000

Percent change, 2000-2010

Health services 11,065 25.5

Hospitals, public and private 4,960 9.8

Nursing and personal care facilities

1,796 21.9

  Medical and dental laboratories

209 29.2

Additional Factors Contributing to the Shortage

• The elderly population, a group with much greater than average healthcare needs, will grow faster than the total population between 2000 and 2010

• Advances in medical technology will continue to improve the survival rate of severely ill and injured patients, who will then need extensive therapy and care.

• New technologies enable the identification and treatment

of conditions not previously treatable

Turnover Rates Contribute to the Healthcare Worker Shortage

• Additional openings will result as workers leave the labor force or transfer to other occupations.

• High turnover due to low pay and status, poor benefits, low training requirements, and a high proportion of young and part-time workers, such as nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides.

• In contrast, occupations with relatively few replacement openings, are those with high pay and status, lengthy training requirements, and a high proportion of full-time workers, such as physicians and surgeons.

U.S. Department of LaborBureau of Labor Statistics

Challenge

Consistent with local health care community needs and with MVCC’s strategic initiatives:

Attract and educate new populations within the district to health care careers

Desirable Characteristics -Programs of Study

• Short-term training

• Good employment potential

• Credentialing mechanism upon graduation

• Marketable skills that may also be transferable to another program of study

• High quality programs with documented positive outcomes

Responses to Challenges

• Aspen High School

• CEDA Robbins

• University of Chicago

Hospitals Academy

ASPEN High SchoolPARTNERS

•Moraine Area Career Systems (MACS)

•Moraine Valley Community College

•ASPEN High School, Robbins, IL

•St. Francis Hospital, Blue Island , IL

EDUCATION PLAN

• COL 101 First Semester

• Student Assessments

• HSC 110 Second Semester

• MVCC Field Trips

• Hospital Field Trips

• Student to Teacher

• Teacher to High School

• Teacher to Hospital

• Other Members of Team

COMMUNICATION

PUBLIC RELATIONS

• Student Orientation

• Student Selection

• Share Successes

CEDA-RobbinsBasic Nurse Assistant Course

• Approved by the Illinois Department of Public Health

• This 132-contact hour course is presented over 8 weeks

• Prepares students to work in hospitals, nursing homes and home health agencies

• Prerequisite for the Associate Degree Nursing Program

CEDA-RobbinsPhlebotomy Program

• Approved by the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical laboratory Sciences

• This eight-credit program presents the basics of phlebotomy in a two semester course sequence; students take one course per semester

• Prepares students to work in clinics, hospitals, physician’s offices and blood centers

• Included as part of the medical office assistant, radiologic technology, and respiratory therapy curricula

UCHA Nursing Project

• Nursing at the Forefront Scholarship

• Criteria

• MVCC requirements

• Resources needed

FUNDING

• Aspen

• CEDA Robbins– Cook County:

• Board of

Commissioners

• President’s Office of Employment

& Training (POET)

– MVCC– CEDA-Robbins

• UCHA

MAJOR OBSTACLES to STUDENT SUCCESS

• Assignments

• Educationally – Under-prepared

• Attendance

• Personal Problems

LESSONS LEARNED

•Testing•Transportation Off-Campus•Tutoring•Building Connections •Special Training for Faculty•Equipment and Space

SITE-SPECIFICLESSONS LEARNED

• ASPEN

• CEDA- Robbins

• UCHA

PARTNERSHIP WORKSHEET

1. Identify the goal of the partnerships at your facility

2. List elements already in place

3. List stakeholders in the project

4. Steps for implementation (Procedure)

Web Site

• To view this presentation, please visit our web site at:

www.morainevalley.edu/healthsciences