Healthcare Diversity Strategic Plans

The California Workforce Association received a grant through the California Endowment to convene Workforce Investment Boards (WIB) to develop strategic plans to increase the diversity of their regional healthcare workforce. Workforce Investment Boards funded through this initiative spent a year convening partnerships with a broad range of stakeholders and the healthcare industry to understand the needs of hospitals and clinics. The strategic plans represent the work that was accomplished by these regional areas to develop strategies to recruit, train and retain a diverse and culturally competent workforce. Areas funded include the Humboldt County WIB, Northern Rural Training Consortium (NoRTEC), EASTBAY Works which includes Contra Costa and Alameda WIBs, the Workforce Consortium of California’s Central Coast (WCCCC), the Pacific Gateway Workforce Investment Network, and the San Diego Workforce Partnership.

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Hospitals Language and Culture

A report funded by The California Endowment states that linguistically and culturally appropriate care is lacking in many hospitals, and that an increasingly diverse American population requires broad new strategies to address their needs. The study, Hospitals, Language and Culture: A Snapshot of the Nation, analyzes 60 hospitals across the country in their efforts to offer culturally competent care.

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Help Wanted

This report demonstrates the gap between how many allied health workers California will need versus how many it is prepared to train over the next 20 years — and what these facts mean to the state’s economy. To reach this conclusion, researchers analyzed population data, identified the increasing demand on the health care system, and compared the allied health workforce supply against demand.

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California Endowment Reports

This series of regional reports describes and analyzes the basic components of the allied health care workforce: the general population, which entails both an available pool of health care labor and the body of health care consumers, the current health professions workforce, and the graduates of selected allied health education programs. These reports also include information on current wage levels and projected occupational employment that can be used to evaluate the relationships among wages, employment opportunities, and characteristics of the workforce and population.

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