Businesses Helping Build a Healthcare Talent Pipeline · created a DOL Registered Medical Assistant Apprenticeship enabling current entry-level employees to become certified Medical

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C e n t r a l T e x a s H e a l t h c a r e P a r t n e r s h i p

Businesses Helping Build a Healthcare

Talent Pipeline

Tamara Atkinson

Chief Executive Officer

Workforce Solutions Capital Area

Sheila Fata

Chief Nurse Executive

St. David’s HealthCare

HCA Central & West

Texas Division

Garrett C. Groves

Vice President, Business & Industry Partnerships

Austin Community College District

Valerie R. Esparza

Director

Workforce Development, Diversity & Inclusion

Ascension Seton

Discover the value proposition for market competitors in the healthcare industry to work

together collaboratively on talent pipeline challenges

Identify how the region’s community college system has responded to the short and long-term talent

demands of employers

Understand the roles that a Local Workforce Development Board can play in engaging with and

meeting the industry’s workforce needs

Panel Objectives

The Plan

• 2021 Goal: 30,000

• Year 1: 6,027

• Year 1 Healthcare: 2,573 (41%)Enrollment

• 2021 Goal: 12,000

• Year 1: 1,679

• Year 1 Healthcare: 684 (40%)Completion

• 2021 Goal: 8,000

• Year 1: 1,217

• Year 1 Healthcare Placement: 937 (77%) Healthcare Placement Out of Poverty: 253 (27%)

Placement/ Placement Out of

Poverty

(October 2017 - September 2018)

MCWP Year One Healthcare Impact

46 Area Hospitals5,000 Licensed Hospital Beds

Ascension Seton

Baylor Scott & White

St. David’s HealthCare

Three major systems operate 25 of the region’s 46 hospitals, with the remainder run by 16 different non-profit and for-profit systems.

Austin Healthcare Landscape

Three major systems operate 25 of the region’s 46 hospitals, with the remainder run by 16 different non-profit and for-profit systems.

Austin Healthcare Landscape

Health Workforce Alliance of Central Texas (hwACT)

2007:Added clinical

placements

2019:Transitioned

to WFSCA

Transitioned to hwACT / Diversified

dues structure

1998:HISC

foundedStarted out

of a desperation for Nurses

Hospitals funded

organization

Health Industry Steering Committee (HISC)

Healthcare Organizations History

Encourage secondary

students to seek

careers in healthcare

to ensure a pipeline of

local talent. Serve as

a leader in healthcare

workforce

development at the

local, state, and

national level.

4

Solicit involvement and

integrate feedback from a

cross-section of

healthcare providers in

diverse settings so

educational programs

may fully prepare

students for contemporary

practice.

3

Assure high quality

clinical education

experiences that will

enable students to

excel in their studies

and to to enter the

workplace with

relevant skills.

2

Actively engage clinical

agencies, healthcare

education programs

and community

workforce

organizations as

partners to achieve

Central Texas

communities’

healthcare workforce

goals.

1

hwACT Mission

hwACT Engagement: • Pflugerville ISD• Round Rock ISD• St. David’s HealthCare• South University• Texas A&M University - College of Nursing• Texas AHEC East – Capital Region• Texas State University• Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center• University of Texas at Austin – School of Nursing

• Ascension Seton• Austin Community College• Austin ISD• Bastrop ISD• Capital IDEA• Central Texas Medical Center• Concordia University• Del Valle ISD• Dripping Springs ISD• Eanes ISD• Hays ISD• Healthcare Workforce Alliance of Central Texas• Lake Travis ISD• Leander ISD• Manor ISD

hwACT Membership

Central Texas Healthcare Partnership

To provide a forum for the Central Texas healthcare industry

for networking and information sharing.

To facilitate coordinated action to address shared workforce

challenges and realize shared opportunities.

To jointly develop an agenda to sustain and grow the

healthcare industry in the Central Texas region.

The new coalition was launched with three objectives in mind:

The Master Community Workforce Plan (MCWP) selected 3 industry sectors to focus the

work of the strategic plan. The Central Texas Healthcare Partnership was founded in early

2018 to help drive the work for the Healthcare Industry Partnership.


• Any Baby Can• Ascension Seton• Aureum Associates• Austin Black Physicians Association (ABPA)• Austin Community College• Austin Equestrian Center• Austin Independent School District• Austin/Travis County Integral Care• Avalanche Consulting• Banfield Pet Hospital• Baylor Scott & White• Brookdale Lakeway• Brookdale Westlake Hills• Capital IDEA• Cedar Park Regional Medical Center• Central Health• City of Austin• CommUnityCare• Concordia University• Cornerstone Healthcare, Inc.• CVS Health• Del Valle ISD• Dignity Memorial• DSHS Texas Center for the Study of the Nursing

Workforce

• Emancipet• Endeavor Rehab• Foundation Communities• Genotox Labs• Goodwill Career and Technical Academy• Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce• Healthcare Services Group Inc - Bee Cave• Healthcare Workforce Alliance of Central Texas• Huston-Tillotson University• IDEA Public Schools• Integral Care• Interim Healthcare of Austin • JP Morgan Chase• LeadingAge Texas• Longhorn Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics• Manor ISD• Marbridge Foundation• Meals on Wheels Central Texas• Med Team Inc• Michael & Susan Dell Foundation• Natera• Optique• People's Community Clinic• Pflugerville ISD• Physicians Premier Emergency Room

• Primero Health, Inc.• Regency Health Care• Region 13• Senior Care at Onion Creek Nursing & Rehabilitation• SignatureCare• Skillpoint Alliance• Spicewood Springs Animal Hospital• St. David’s HealthCare• Superior HealthPlan• Texas A&M University - College of Nursing• Texas AHEC East- Capital Region• Texas Physical Therapy Specialists• Texas State University• Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center• Texas Workforce Commission• The College of Health Care Professions• Travis County• Travis County Emergency Medical Services• University of St. Augustine Health Sciences-Austin• University of Texas at Austin - Health Science• UT Dell Medical School LIVESTRONG Cancer Institutes• Vida Clinic• Westlake Pediatric Dentistry

CTHP Engagement:



Current State

•Successful transfer of the placement system to WFSCA

•Clinical Placement Review Committee is assessing new software & equity

•Clinical space is maxed out on day shifts (nights and weekends available)

Goals

•Analyze rotation requests to create equity

•Maximize simulation usage as a community

•Culture shift: realistic job interviews

•Rotation to hire capabilities

•Expand outreach to other careers


Current State

•Historical support of nursing programs working with industry

•Strong collaboration among education programs

•Need for more BSN Graduates

Goals

•Increase Simulation/Decrease Acute Care Clinicals

•Expand clinical opportunities outside the hospital

•Define and where appropriate align hospital requirements to increase clinical rotation spots

•Increase placements and local graduates


Perioperative NursingOpportunities & Awareness


Current State

•Identified local severe shortage careers in

•Working with industry to implement upskilling initiatives

•Continued talent pipeline challenges

Goals

•Develop sector workforce committees (long-term care, clinics, behavioral health)

•Implement a rotation-to-hire model for recruitment

•Expand the clinical placement software to career shortage areas

•Promote upskill toolkit to industry partners


Ascension Seton has partnered with CHCP and WFSCA to assist 10

incumbent workers complete an Associates Degree in Surgical Technology

utilizing tuition assistance, Pell Grant and Incumbent Worker Training Funds

from WFSCA.

Incumbent

Worker

Training

3

Baylor Scott & White, in partnership with WFSCA and ACC has

created a DOL Registered Medical Assistant Apprenticeship

enabling current entry-level employees to become certified

Medical Assistants in as little as 25 weeks.

MA

Apprenticeship2

St. David’s HealthCare partnering with WFSCA, ACC

and Capital IDEA to upskill 15 employees from entry

level to high demand roles by providing tuition,

coaching and wrap around supports.

Upskill

ATX

1

Examples of Work Underway:


Current State

•Strong support of the K12 Workgroup (education & industry)

•Multiple opportunities for students in healthcare

•Lack of data on CTE certificates being used

Goals

•Utilize the K12 Workgroup to promote severe shortage careers

•Create a website for all health career opportunities

•Add rotation-to-hire options for CTE programs

•Increase summer teacher externships


Over 25 different health

occupations featured22 schools from 4 districts

participated

Approximately 1,000

middle school students48 vendors

Health Science Career Showcase

Increase Utilization of Clinical Rotation Space

Create Hiring Strategies for Nursing

Address Severe Shortage Careers in Healthcare

Enhance Career Awareness and Fill Pipelines

Unite Industry & Education to Produce Success

Creating a

United Front

for

Healthcare

Collaboration


• Identify career pathways

• Landscape assessment of severe shortage

• Establish Industry-led workgroups

• Cultivate relationships with the emerging workforce through K12 initiatives

• Prioritize initiatives that gain momentum – let go of those that don’t

• Leverage state and federal funding sources for upskilling incumbent workers

• Engage stakeholders with a value proposition and maintain regular communication

Sector Partnership Strategies for Success:


Questions?


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Businesses Helping Build a Healthcare Talent Pipeline · created a DOL Registered Medical Assistant Apprenticeship enabling current entry-level employees to become certified Medical