California Health Workforce Alliance

The California Health Workforce Alliance will collaborate with the State Health Workforce Development Council and California workforce funders to guide discussions and recommendations for increasing workforce and diversity initiatives in the healthcare industry.

Current workforce development efforts in California are fragmented and lack the scale, optimal geographic distribution, and sustainability to address current and projected needs. The California Health Workforce Alliance will provide a dedicated infrastructure to develop and implement more systematic, coordinated health workforce solutions. It will also be a catalyst and innovator for delivery system and corresponding practice model change.

The California Health Workforce Alliance will provide a dedicated infrastructure to develop and implement more systematic, coordinated health workforce solutions. It will also be a catalyst and innovator for delivery system and corresponding practice model change that will create new models for the provision of services and workforce roles.

The goal of this project is to support the California Health Workforce Alliance's efforts to develop tools for ongoing dialogue, planning, policy development, coordination and action with sector partners and stakeholders.

The California Workforce Alliance will conduct a review and gap analysis, and then develop a strategic plan to increase the yield and distribution of primary care residency graduates aligned with projected needs.

The California Health Workforce Alliance (CHWA) is conducting a statewide assessment that examines specific contributions of community health workers (CHWs)/promotores (Ps) related to Triple Aim goals. A report of findings and recommendations that includes case profiles will be disseminated in July 2013.  The report will build consensus among CHWA’s diverse membership and lay the groundwork for a second project to convene a statewide taskforce and implement strategies that take the engagement of CHWs/Ps to scale. 

Core operating support for the California Health Workforce Alliance to continue to develop and implement statewide and regional strategies and policies to increase the diversity of the state’s health care workforce.  Objectives include: continue to inform policymakers and opinion leaders about the need for a diverse health care workforce and continue to convene key stakeholders working toward diversity in the health professions across California at least three times annually as a learning exchange and to build relationships to strengthen the pipeline.

The project will develop a Bay Area-focused assessment of employer needs for community health workers, as well as an assessment of existing training programs and how these align with employer needs.

PHI will review Primary Care Workforce Development opportunities through environmental scans, conducting informant interviews, and developing report summaries.

To identify and address needs of food insecure patients with chronic disease PHI will conduct a health and economic burden study. Deliverables include exploratory evaluation of practices to identify and address needs of food insecure patients along with creation of tools for health system leadership. Learn more: http://www.phihungernet.org

This project will support health care transformation among senior leaders and board members of hospitals and health systems by increasing awareness, knowledge, and collaborative learning about improving population health. To accomplish this goal, PHI, the Governance Institute, and Stakeholder Health will engage three cohorts of senior leaders and board members in intensive retreats and follow-up coaching and an evaluation to assess impact. Learn more.