Workforce Workout: a fitness plan for healthcare in America

Keynote Address: National AHEC Organization June, 2010

Workforce Workout: a fitness plan for healthcare in America

Keynote Address: National AHEC Organization June, 2010

Angela Broderick Bedell, MA, CAE

Why a workout?

30,000 hours

Components of a fitness plan

Strength

Endurance

Flexibility

Core

The reality factors of success

The “exercises”

Strength

Strength

Strength in numbers

What are the numbers

...really?

Bob Phillips, MD Director, Robert Graham Center

Policy Studies in Family Medicine & Primary Care

American Academy of Family Physicians

Endurance

Sufficient FP

Workforce:

Sufficient

Recruitment Appropriate

Training

Continued

Retention

A practical approach to workforce:

The Three-Legged Stool

Slide credit: Ashley Devilbis Bieck, MPA & Amy McGaha, MD

“As a nation, we simply need to do a better job at promoting careers in healthcare for our

rural youth.”

Alan Morgan

CEO, NRHA

“Flush, Kansas is never going to be an attractive destination to a kid from

New York City.”

Flush, KS

“Flush, Kansas is never going to be an attractive destination to a kid from New

York City.”

High test scores now indicate…

…high test scores later.

Pipeline activities

STFM.org

STFM pipeline posters

Flexibility

Not all communities are the same,

approaches must be flexible

“I have seen many elegantly designed "urban" interventions fail

miserably, in part, because the investigators did not really

understand the local culture of the indigenous people.”

Chris Gibbons associate director of the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute

Who does know the needs of a community?

Who does know what healthcare workforce is necessary?

Core Strength

Healthcare providers are the core of

healthcare

How do we strengthen this “core?”

Kevin Grumbach, UCSF analogy

Kevin Grumbach, UCSF analogy

Michael Pollan:

“Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.”

“Get medical care,

not too much,

mostly primary care.”

Image credit: Jennifer Sauer

Kevin Grumbach, MD

Exercises

What, specifically, do we need to do?

Personal branding for personal providers

Better packaging of the opportunity

Purpose, rewards Daniel Pink

“Calling” Stefan Sagmeister

Packaging of the opportunity

New generation = new options

Packaging of the opportunity

New generation – new options

Understanding pay & debt

More flexibility in work options

“Goodbye to the office”

Support for supporters

Reality Factors

(just like working out!)

To make it a reality: aggressive plan

Dec 2005

Oct 2006

To make it a reality: a good coach

To make it a reality: motivation

To make it a reality: motivation

To make it a reality: motivation

Reality: it’ll be more expensive than you think

Reality: greatest need is leadership

Leadership

Motivators

Know and care – community

Thank you NAO and AHECs – for shaping up

our healthcare workforce and

healthcare in our communities.