Governor's Employer Workforce Training Fund Promising Practices Session Healthcare Career Pathways Summit April 10, 2008 Valley River Inn, Eugene, Oregon.

Governor's Employer Workforce Training Fund Promising Practices Session

Healthcare Career Pathways SummitApril 10, 2008

Valley River Inn, Eugene, Oregon

Statewide Opportunity Fund Governors' Strategic Training Fund

Workforce Response Team

EWTF Statewide Opportunity

Statewide Opportunity funds are for the purpose of solving challenges or engaging in opportunities in Oregon with regard to its workforce development needs.

a. To address skill gaps in occupations/industry across the state.b. To build capacity statewide in a traded-sector industry.c. To implement statewide cross-industry training projects.d. To replicate or expand a previously funded successful project.e. To develop alternative training delivery systems that provides to

remote areas or the needs of businesses and workers.

EWTF - Successful HealthcareStatewide Opportunity Fund Projects

Oregon Center for Nursing $100,000.Critical Nursing Shortage Admissions Database Pilot

This initiative will develop and implement a web-based program to collect, track and accurately report admission statistics, applicant demographic information, and admission/enrollment trends for all schools of nursing offering associate and baccalaureate degrees in the state of Oregon.

EWTF - Successful HealthcareStatewide Opportunity Fund Projects

Lane Workforce Partnership $100,000.TANF Healthcare Cluster Training Pilot

The goal of the pilot project to provide “Integrated Healthcare Cluster Training Services to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Other Disadvantaged Populations” is to concentrate efforts in a way that will meet the above objective.

EWTF - Successful HealthcareStatewide Opportunity Fund Projects

Oregon Heath Career Center $139,400. The N2K Model is a unique program of the Oregon Health

Career Center, based on the concept of healthcare employer organizations actively participating in the design and supporting the training necessary to meet their professional nurse staffing needs. It enables employers to enter into “contract education” arrangements that will provide their own high-performing employees with an opportunity and support to receive an associate degree in nursing.

The purpose of the work performed under this grant is to build more capacity to deliver qualified workers in the workforce system.

EWTF - Successful HealthcareStatewide Opportunity Fund Projects

Northwest Health Foundation $100,000.Oregon Healthcare Workforce Institute

This grant provided assistance to the establishment of the Oregon Healthcare Workforce Institute a (OHWI), a private-public nonprofit partnership. The strategic purpose of OHWI is to understand and facilitate a statewide coordinated response to the critical healthcare workforce needs facing Oregon.

EWTF - Successful HealthcareStatewide Opportunity Fund Projects

Northwest Health Foundation $162,038.Oregon Simulation Alliance

Oregon Simulation Alliance Goal is to increase the health system's simulation capacity, using high-fidelity simulators and virtual reality software, in all regions of the state for multi-sector, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary use for healthcare workforce development, including both pre- and post-service, reentry and refresher, and career ladder programs.

EWTF Governors' Strategic Training Fund

The Governors' Strategic Training Fund (GSTF) supports the retention and growth of living wage jobs, a skilled workforce, and competitive businesses in Oregon. GSTF is a flexible, responsive, and time sensitive resource for training Oregon’s private sector workforce. The emphasis is to upgrade the skills of the workforce in order to increase productivity, keep Oregon businesses viable and competitive, and offer new skills and opportunities to Oregon’s workers.

EWTF - Successful HealthcareGovernors' Strategic Training Fund Projects

Northwest Health Foundation $96,872.GSTF Simulation Alliance Grant

The Oregon Simulation Alliance project was comprised of five distinct activities:

1) Develop Simulation Foundation Curriculum and develop and deliver a Train-the-trainer course.

2) Provide two regional simulation foundations courses. 3) Provide participation in advanced training opportunities not

offered in Oregon.4) Sponsor six end-user networking summits (roundtables).5) Develop an evaluation plan and instruments.

EWTF - Successful HealthcareGovernors' Strategic Training Fund Projects

Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council $25,000.Registered Nurse Training

Development of an innovative regionally-based pathway model in Central Oregon with 13 area Health Education entities that moves health care workers into high demand nursing occupations, providing most training via distance technology. The Registered Nurse Training Program identified current workers at four hospitals in Central Oregon that had completed their LPN education, and who were good candidates to achieve RN certification. The nurse training was monitored by the Oregon Board of Nursing and offered through accredited programs. CEAHEC contracted with Central Oregon Community College to offer the training through distance education.

EWTF Workforce Response Teams

Each of Oregon’s 15 workforce regions will form a WRT to respond to the needs of Oregon businesses and workers.

WRT funds may be used to finance incumbent worker training projects with existing Oregon businesses, industry or worker associations.

For the WRT funded projects, it is required that, at a minimum, every dollar awarded to eligible Oregon business must be matched dollar for dollar with non-federal contributions. The non-federal match may be either cash or non-cash.

EWTF Regional Guidelines

For healthcare projects, training must be focused on career development of workers that result in transferable skills or industry-recognized certificates, with a preference for training in shortage occupations, as identified in Oregon Employment Department Healthcare Workforce Needs Assessment, or report from the Oregon Healthcare Workforce Institute, or the Oregon Center for Nursing.

To access funds contact your local WRT. Each WRT has its own process. Funds are awarded at the local level using state and local priorities.

EWTF - Successful HealthcareWorkforce Response Team Project Region 1 WRT Tillamook County General Hospital $14,890 - 63 trainedHigh-fidelity Simulation Education For Incumbent Nursing And Allied

Health Staff

1)To prepare a “simulation specialist” at TCGH, through advanced training and consultation, to develop advanced, multidisciplinary healthcare simulation scenarios and appropriately manage training sessions;

2) Develop at least six advanced level simulation scenarios along with curricula supporting competencies needed to increase and improve clinical skills of incumbent nursing and allied health staff (e.g., emergency medical technicians, cardiopulmonary therapists) in a rural hospital setting;

3) Implement simulation scenario training with incumbent nursing and allied health disciplines;

4) Evaluate effectiveness of the training project and disseminate scenarios and “best practices” through the Oregon Simulation Alliance and other avenues as identified.

EWTF - Successful HealthcareWorkforce Response Team Project Region 6 WRT

Oregon Surgery Center $25,375 - 7 Trained - 1 job created

Operating Room and Endoscopy Technician training program With the shortage of registered nurses in our

county, as well as nationwide, this will provide certified nursing assistants with the skills necessary to perform in the operating room and endoscopy suites. Currently there are not enough trained personnel available to meet the demands of our community.

EWTF - Successful HealthcareWorkforce Response Team Project Region 15 WRT

Doctors Of Clackamas County $78,167 - 476 trained Doctors of Clackamas County (DOCC) a physician-owned and

operated association that promotes quality care, collegiality among members, and offers contracting, practice management services and educational opportunities for its members and their office staff.

DOCC arranged various levels of educational workshops and training for physicians and staff to gain an understanding of disciplined systems-based methodology, which in turn would provide them tools to analyze and improve their practices. The providers and staff attended training, and then selected individual projects to apply their new skills.

Some of the projects included preparing a more successful implementation of electronic medical records, revamping referral steps to improve timeliness, reviewing patient flow which will make visits more streamlined, analyzing diagnostic reporting to improve accuracy in lab and imaging results, and many more. In addition, staff increased their skills, helping them to retain their positions and take on more responsibility for promotions in the future.

EWTF - Successful HealthcareWorkforce Response Team Project Region 14 WRT

Harney District Hospital $34,596 – 16 trained Rural Nurse Internship - A rural internship program offers distance

programs for small hospitals. The focus of the educational offerings is to teach staff to manage the broad cross section of care required of nurses in a rural setting. RN's cannot specialize in very small facilities, all staff are required to fill several roles in the department, meaning they may assist in a delivery one day and help stabilize a cardiac patient for transport the next.

OB Training - The ideal situation would be to train all staff to participate in OB training, but this will take time as well. We have a finite number of staff, and can only spare 3-4 at a time to participate in the 2 week process. If we are able to train 9 nurses in the next year, our full time staff would virtually all be trained. As nurses return to the OB department, they are able to network with others who have attended and share experiences both at the larger hospital in Boise, and here at HDH.

Employer Workforce Training Fund

Update December 2007

Workforce Response Team Summary Report Totals By Year 2003 – 2006

Closed WRT ProjectsGrant Years 2003 – 2005

In Progress/Planned WRT ProjectsGrant Year 2006

392Total WRT Projects Funded from all 15

Regions134

Total WRT In Progress Projects funded from all 15 Regions

$8,974,975 Total Funded Amount $3,828,787 Total Funded Amount

$16,421,145 Total Match Amount$12,805,29

7Total Match Amount

19,256 Number of individuals trained 7,739 Number of individuals to be trained

The WRT Update Handout

Each Region has local priorities in CLUSTERS / INDUSTRIES

Region 4 WRT (Linn, Benton, and Lincoln Counties)

What’s Happening with the Region 4 Workforce Response Team: The Region 4 Workforce Response Team serves Linn, Benton, and Lincoln counties. Region 4 has a significantly larger proportion of people employed in the metals industry as compared to Oregon. Companies in Region 4’s metals cluster export many of their products internationally; a textbook definition of a traded sector cluster. The metals industry in Region 4 is unique to the region, the state, and the nation. The work of a professor at Oregon State University (and the location of a national research laboratory in Albany) contributed to the origins of this industry in the early 1940s. After the basic research was completed on making titanium metals and other non-ferrous metals, the national lab transferred the technology to the private sector in the mid 1950s for commercial manufacturing. With a solid manufacturing base, companies that could make use of this resource moved into the area and many of their suppliers moved into the area as well, creating Region 4’s metals cluster.

What’s Happening with a Region 4 Workforce Response Team Project: “The EWTF grant for Lean training was one of the most significant projects our Company has undertaken. We have embraced the Lean philosophy of continuous improvement and are committed to staying the course with these practices. ” –Jared Hyde, manager, SAM Medical, Newport Oregon

CLUSTERS / INDUSTRIES ● Aviation ● Forest/Wood/Paper Products ● Health Care ● Tourism ● High-Tech ● Food Processing ● Nursery/Agriculture ● Manufacturing (Chemicals, Computers, Machinery, Metals, Transportation, i.e. Boats, RV’s,) ● Warehouse Distribution

Employer Workforce Training FundWorkforce Response Team Contact List

Region 1 WRT Julie Gassner, Director MTC Works450 Marine Drive, Suite 140 Astoria, OR 97103 503. 325.1156 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.mtcworks.com

Region 9 WRT Robin Cope Workforce Response Team Coordinator C/O Mid Columbia Council of Governments 1113 Kelly Avenue The Dalles, OR 97058 541.296.8080 Email: [email protected]

Thank you!Claire Berger, Workforce Policy AdvisorOffice of the Governor255 Capitol St. NE, Suite 126 Salem, Oregon  97301

(503) [email protected]

Kathy G WilcoxEmployer Workforce Training Fund Project Coordinator

Oregon Department of Community Colleges & Workforce Development 255 Capitol Street NE, 3rd Floor Salem, OR  97310 (503) 378-8648 x233 [email protected]