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Request for Proposal: Opportunity to conduct an oral health study for the Wisconsin Dept. of Health Services
October 28, 2009
Dear Organizations Interested in Conducting an Oral Health Education Feasibility Study.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services has posted a Request for Proposals (RFP) for an oral health education feasibility study. The purpose of this project is to fulfill the requirements of 2009 Wisconsin Act 28, where the legislature directed the Building Commission to conduct a study of the state’s role in expanding access to dental education with a particular emphasis on increasing dental care in rural and underserved areas, including an examination of the possibility of construction of a new dental school in the city of Marshfield.
The RFP has been posted at: http://dhs.wisconsin.gov/rfp/
Proposals are due December 1, 2009 and oral presentations will be conducted December 7th and 8th, 2009 in Madison, Wisconsin. We would like to secure a contractor by January 1, 2010 so the entire study can be completed by March 15, 2010.
All interested applicants are encouraged to submit a proposal. Please feel free to share with all interested parties.
For further information regarding this RFP contact Marisa Stanley at (608) 266-0463 or Marisa.stanley@wisconsin.gov
Articles in Abstract
Summer of Work Exposes Medical Students to System's Ills
The New York Times, Sept 8, 2009
By KEVIN SACK. After providing primary care in underserved areas this summer, medical students from the University of Washington returned to campus with their idealism tempered.
THRIVE HEALTH CARE: REGIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
UW School of Medicine and Public Health, Sept 2009
The largest entering class in school history - 168 students - has just begun its first year of medical education at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH)--and fortunately for the residents of Wisconsin, the class includes 18 students in a specialized program that focuses on underserved populations in rural Wisconsin.
Shortage of Health Care Workforce Hits Rural America Hard
Center for Rural Affairs-e-newsletter, Sept 2009
Rural America faces a critical shortage of primary care providers, jeopardizing the nation’s ability to meet the health care needs of the rural population. Primary care providers offer routine care, health promotion and disease prevention, and treat chronic conditions – all fundamental needs of the rural population.
Wisconsin doctors support health reform The Business Journal of ...
Bizjournals.com, Sept 8, 2009
Wisconsin physicians support reform of the health care system, but primary care doctors and specialists differ on health reform priorities, according to the ...
NJ Nursing Professor to Help RNs Transition to Faculty
Nurse.com, Sept 7, 2009
Sigma Theta Tau International's new Nurse Faculty Mentored Leadership Development Program aims to support novice nurse educators as they learn the art of ...
Stronger nursing profession key to health reform
SmartBrief, Sept 4, 2009
A stronger nursing workforce is necessary to achieve real health care reform, especially through improved access to care and cost containment, according to ... See all stories on this topic
A Milwaukee Clinic Fills a Need but Faces Failure
The New York Times, Sept 2, 2009
MILWAUKEE — Like many low-income neighborhoods, the north side of Milwaukee has seen a gradual depletion of its primary care doctors over the last two decades. One by one, they have retired or surrendered to financial reality, rarely to be replaced
2009 National Long Term Care Symposium: Monday, September 14 on ...
Reuters, Sept 1, 2009
On September 14, Genworth Financial will present the fourth annual National Long Term Care Symposium. Healthcare reform continues to lead debate in ...
Nursing shortage looms due to shortages of faculty
Examiner.com, Sept 1, 2009
Predictions fluctuate, but a 2007 estimate by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates one million new or replacement Registered Nurses will be needed by ...
Shortage of Health Care Workforce Hits Rural America Hard
Center for Rural Affairs, September 2009
Rural America faces a critical shortage of primary care providers, jeopardizing the nation's ability to meet the health care needs of the rural population.
Accountable care organizations: A new idea for managing Medicare
American Medical News, Aug 31, 2009
Accountable care organizations: A new idea for managing Medicare The goal of ACOs is to encourage physicians and hospitals to integrate care by holding them jointly responsible for Medicare quality and costs.
HHS to dole out $1.2 billion for health IT grants Money would go toward setting up key infrastructure
American Medical News, Aug. 31, 2009
Technically Speaking - How to determine an EHR's "usability"
American Medical News, Aug. 31, 2009
Money would go toward setting up key infrastructure to help physicians choose and use the right EHR
Maddox earns statewide nursing award
Chippewa Herald, Aug. 31, 2009
Karen Maddox of Chippewa Falls, a UW-Eau Claire College of Nursing Faculty member, received a statewide Mary Adelaide Academic Linkages Award at the 12th ...
Froedtert, Medical College to open Waukesha health center
JSOline, Aug. 29, 2009
Froedtert Hospital and the Medical College of Wisconsin will open a new health care center in Waukesha on Sept. 8. staffed by seven physicians specializing in internal medicine, pediatrics, and obstetrics and gynecology.
Concordia Pharmacy School receives $1 million donation
JSOnline, Aug. 29, 2009
The Dohmen Co. Foundation said Friday it will donate $1 million to the new School of Pharmacy at Concordia University.
3-state collaboration receives national grant to address nursing ...
Warwick Beacon, Aug. 29, 2009
... clinical placement; and design a nursing education curriculum throughout New England that better meets the needs of our current health care environment. ...
Dislocated workers upgrading education at area colleges
Marshfield News-Herald (WI), Aug. 26, 2009
... employment and out of frustration visited the Wisconsin Job Center. "Once I explained the situation they let me know I was a dislocated worker," ...
Primary physician shortage spurs search for alternatives
Examiner.com, Aug. 24, 2009
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., talks to reporters on Capitol Hill about the continuing challenges of passing a health care reform bill. He is joined at left by Sen. ...
Aspirus Wausau Hospital honored as a Magnet Hospital for nursing ...
NewsoftheNorth.Net, Aug. 24, 2009
The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) has once again designated Aspirus Wausau Hospital as a Magnet Hospital, the nation's highest recognition of ...
Conference seeks solutions to pending physician shortage
American Medical News, Aug. 24, 2009
Finding ways to turn the situation around was the aim of HRSA's conference, The Health Care Workforce Crisis: A Summit on the Future of Primary Care in ...
Experiencing Life, Briefly, Inside a Nursing Home
The New York Times, Aug. 24, 2009
By KATIE ZEZIMA. Medical students act as patients in a novel program that geriatric specialists hope will spark interest in their field, which is underrepresented in medicine.
Home care workers' pay is crucial, sideline issue
Tri State Defender, Aug 20, 2009
The home care workforce totals more than 1.4 million. There are many in situations similar to Evelyn Coke's in Memphis and every other city, caring for some
UAMS Tackling State's Geriatrics Nursing Shortage
KATV, Aug 20, 2009
We have an opportunity to really strengthen the quality of care and quality of life in nursing homes through a better prepared geriatrics nurse work force. ...
All Allied Health Schools Launches "Health Care Community"
Emediawire (press release, Aug. 19, 2009
This new content helps students keep up with the latest developments in the health care industry--and how these changes will affect health care careers.
$500000 Grant to Reduce Nursing Turnover
HealthNewsDigest.com, Aug 19, 2009
By UNMC College of Nursing (healthnewsdigest.com) - An increasing awareness of the challenges facing the midwest's geriatric nursing workforce is the ..
American Nurses Association Releases 2nd Edition Of Teaching IOM ...
Medical News Today (press release), Aug 18, 2009
This enthusiastic reception has led the authors, leaders in nursing education, to update and expand the book. One focus of the many reports from the ...
Doctor shortage looms as primary care loses its pull
USA Today, Aug. 18, 2009
The US health care system has about 100000 family physicians and will need 139531 in 10 years. The current environment is attracting only half the number ...
Migrant workers' children try out jobs in healthcare
Ventura County Star, Aug. 13, 2009
Serros worked with the Health Care Agency to establish a training program in which students are paid for their work. The current rate, $8.50 an hour, ...
HHS providing $13.4M to help support nurses
HealthcareFinanceNews.com, Aug 13, 2009
WASHINGTON – Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary Bill Corr has released $13.4 million for loan repayments to nurses who agree to practice in ...
Health Care 'Reform' Could Overwhelm Family Caregivers
New America Media, Aug. 13, 2009
In its 2008 report “Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce,” the Institute of Medicine concluded that “the definition of the ...
Rural Health Care Workforce Opportunities to Improve Care Delivery ...
www.cfra.org/ Aug. 11, 2009
Rural Health Care Workforce Opportunities to Improve Care Delivery ... The shortage of primary care physicians has reached a critical level Over 20 percent ...
Audrey Nelson: On a Quest to Protect Health-Care Workers
Washington Post, Aug. 10, 2009
Audrey Nelson, a medical researcher at the Department of Veterans Affairs, fought the odds to protect thousands of nurses and other health care providers ..
Reform Could Strain Community Health Centers
Kaiser Health News, Aug. 7, 2009
By Andrew Villegas While the health care reform debate rages on Capitol Hill, sitting just a mile away is the Walker-Jones Health Center in Northeast ..
Health care Hospital CEO sees workforce shortage as looming issue
ptleader.com, Aug. 5, 2009
My biggest fear in health care now is the workforce shortage he said holding out his hands the left a foot above the right to illustrate a growing gap ...
Training for high potential jobs planned
Wilkes Journal Patriot - N Wilkesboro, NC, USA, Aug. 5, 2009
by Jule Hubbard Rapid and practical training for occupations perceived as having ... The increased need for allied health workers, particularly certified ...
Texas Board of Nursing Approves New Competency-Based BS in Nursing ...
Wilkes Journal Patriot - N Wilkesboro, NC, USA, Aug. 4, 2009
"This new nursing education program shows what can be achieved when healthcare providers, educators, and state government work together to address a ...
RUSCH program addresses areas lacking adequate health care
UW Health, Aug. 3, 2009
Healthcare's Green Initiative: The Healthy Hospital Movement
Alternative Health Journal, Aug. 3, 2009
By Dan Dunlop, Community Contributor -- Published: August 03, 2009 Today, leading-edge health care organizations are striving to create environments that ...
All Nursing Schools Sheds Light on Online Nursing Degree ...
PR Web (press release), July 30, 2009
Online nursing degrees provide students with an excellent option for a less expensive education in the thriving nursing industry. ...
Sebelius Announces $200M for Training Health Care Workers
California Healthline, July 29, 2009
Sebelius said, "Health care reform cannot happen without an adequate supply of well-trained, well-distributed providers," adding, "These [stimulus] funds ... (http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2009pres/07/20090728c.html)
New Study Identifies Strategies to Retain Experienced Nurses as ...
PR Newswire (press release), July 29, 2009
But today's nursing workforce is also aging, and numerous surveys find that more than half of today's employed nurses plan to retire in the next 15 to 20 .../p>
The Struggle to Recruit Family Doctors
CBS News, July 28, 2009
"It's not even close to helping primary care in the way they need to be helped." Without more help for family doctors - health care reform could make the ...
Free Training for Home Care Careers
myfoxny.com, July 28, 2009
COM - As people live longer, the need for qualified home healthcare workers grows. If you're thinking about a career in this burgeoning field, ...
Professional Nurses Recruited To Teach Nursing Students
NY1, July 28, 2009
I mean, I'm an old nurse and I miss the babies." City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has been active in generating new avenues of nursing education. ...
Study Looks at How Many Public Health Care Workers Will Be on the ...
HSToday, July 28, 2009
Early on in pandemic planning, there were estimates that perhaps as much as 40 percent of the public emergency health care workforce across the board would ...
Long Term Care Workforce receives award
NewsoftheNorth.Net - Rhinelander, Wisconsin, USA, July 26, 2009
Receiving the award were Sandy Bishop, Nicolet Customized Training Coordinator; Pam Rau, AGI Healthcare; Pat Richardson, Taylor Park and Friendly Village; ...
Hispanic nurses a growing force
San Antonio Express - San Antonio, TX, USA, July 22, 2009
By Elizabeth Allen - Express-News Norma Martinez Rogers took the helm of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses with the twin goals of increasing the ...
House committee approves funds to fight nursing workforce shortage ...
McKnight's.com, July 21, 2009
Funding has been allocated to relieve the healthcare workforce shortage and reduce hospital-acquired infections (HAIs).
Stimulus will provide $220 million for health care training
Kansas City Star - MO,USA, July 21, 2009
Solis said she hopes the grants boost such programs, as rural areas are especially hard-hit by a shortage of health care workers.
Budget would give HHS more money for nursing education
SmartBrief, July 21, 2009
The fiscal 2010 HHS budget approved by the House Appropriations Committee includes an additional $137 million over last year for nursing education and ...
All Allied Health Schools Helps Medical Coding Students Prepare ...
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale, WA, USA, July 21, 2009
All Allied Health Schools (www.allalliedhealthschools.com) is an Internet site dedicated to helping people interested in health care careers find the ..
Bill Proposes Health Care for Elderly While Creating Jobs
The Epoch Times, July 20, 2009
“[The Together We Care Act] addresses many of the objectives of our workforce development strategy and those of states across the nation,” said Mario ...
Hospital will add 500 jobs
Janesville Gazette - Janesville, WI, USA, July 17, 2009
Making good on promises first delivered in April 2008, officials with SSM Health Care of Wisconsin and Dean Health System said Thursday they're moving ahead ...
In historic vote, Dodd and HELP Committee approve the Affordable ...
Connecticut Plus - Hartford, CT, USA, July 15, 2009
Nursing student loan program: Increases the grant amounts and updates the years for nursing schools to establish and maintain student loan funds.
Displaced Workers Look to Health Care for Second Chance
WUWM - Milwaukee Public Radio - WI, USA, July 13, 2009
“When the economy recovers or when those older people who are in health care, we know how old the workforce is in health care, when they do need to retire ...
Work-Force Worries a Key Part of Health Care Reform, Murray Says
Kitsap Sun - WA, United States, July 1, 2009
“We can't provide meaningful health care reform without a qualified workforce,” Murray said. Harrison CEO Scott Bosch defined the problem as a train wreck ...
Massachusetts has been named the top e-prescribing state for the second year in a row by Surescripts
Healthcare IT News, June 22, 2009
The Alexandia, Va.-based electronic prescribing network made the announcement Monday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., where it named the top 10 e-prescribers for 2008 and listed rankings and progress reports on e-prescribing use and adoption for all 50 states. Maine made the top-10 list for the first time.
According to Surescripts, prescribers in Massachusetts sent more than 6.7 million prescriptions electronically in 2008, representing 20.5 percent of all eligible prescriptions in the state – as compared to 2.3 percent in 2005.
Health Care Workforce ideas issues trends
AHANews.com, June 22, 2009
Health Care Workforce ideas issues trends ... Studies RN shortage easing patient satisfaction related to work environment. The current shortage of ...
States Use Stimulus Funds to Help Direct-Care Workers
PHI, June 19, 2009
A look at three states - North Dakota, Montana, and Oregon - using funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to stabilize and enhance their direct-care workforces.
Wisconsin grants to fund training programs
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte, NC, USA, June 18. 2009
The grants specifically will assist work force development agencies in training workers in health care and advanced manufacturing industries. ...
Nursing Jobs Grow Despite Recession
NurseZone - San Diego, California, USA, June17, 2009
Health care, on the other hand, continues to grow, adding 360000 jobs during the past 12 months. The employment outlook continues to look bright for nurses. ...
Loan Repayment Legislation Includes Physical Therapists as ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York, NY, USA, June 17, 2009
"With health care reform legislation on the horizon, it's imperative that our leaders address workforce issues as a part of overall reform. ...
Wisconsin Awards Grants to Evaluate Health Care Workforce ...
June 12, 2009
Medical College grant will address work force needs
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte, NC, USA, June 11, 2009
The Medical College of Wisconsin has awarded a three-year $300000 grant to an effort to address the state's health care labor shortages and related data ...
Nurses needed in New York State
Capital News 9 - Albany, NY, USA, June 10, 2009
The senator said according to the Center for Health Workforce Studies, New York has far fewer registered nurses per capita than the national average. ...
A Win–Win Approach to Financing Health Care Reform
New England Journal of Medicine (subscription) - MA, USA, June 10, 2009
No hurdle facing health care reform in the United States today is more daunting than the problem of financing universal coverage. ...
UCSD nurse to testify for single-payer system
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego, CA, USA, June 10, 2009
By Keith Darcé, Union-Tribune Staff Writer Jenkins, co-president of the 86000-member California Nurses Association, said yesterday that she will tell the ...
New Report Highlights Health Disparities
Washington Post - United States, June 10, 2009
Single payer would help the whole US economy in several ways: 1) a healthier workforce, 2) elimination of "middleman" costs unrelated to the care given, ...
Wellness, Prevention Likely to Survive Battle Over Health Care Reform
Workforce Management - Irvine, CA, USA, June 2009
The Healthy Workforce Act requires that the wellness programs include three of the following four components: health education, participation monitoring, ...
Doctor of nursing practice exam challenged by some physicians
FierceHealthcare - Washington, DC, USA, June 10, 2009
Last year, the National Board of Medical Examiners began to offer a new doctor of nursing practice certification exam, based partly on the final step of the ...
Senate Republicans voice opposition to government-run health insurance
IFAwebnews.com - Baltimore, MD, USA, June 10, 2009
By Keith L. Martin Nine Republican senators are urging President Barack Obama to facilitate more inclusive reform of America's health care system and say ...
Evolution of the new public health specialists
guardian.co.uk - UK, June 10, 2009
"Public health teams often have a mix of health promotion, health protection and specialists looking at the quality of healthcare," he says. ...
Area nursing shortage to be addressed
Mt. Vernon Register-News - Mt. Vernon, IL, USA, June 9, 2009
ConnectSI, a group of regional partners which include healthcare providers, educators, workforce development providers and state agencies has been meeting ...
Health Care Rx: How to mend our broken system?
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis, MN, USA, June 9, 2009
At their core, a 316-page partial draft bill released by Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and a three-page outline ...
Budget initiatives bode well for expanding nurse workforce ...
Janesville Gazette - Janesville, WI, USA, June 8, 2009
The nursing shortage is not due to a lack of interest in the nursing profession. At UW-Madison, 400 qualified applicants for the School of Nursing were ...
HealthNews Dozen: Best Medical Careers in 2009 and Beyond
HealthNews - Carslbad, CA, USA, June 8, 2009
This list of health care careers can be helpful to those in dire need of a career change or those still exploring options as they enter or exit their first ...
Education Secretary Announces Grants to Retrain Workforce
89.7 WUWM - Milwaukee Public Radio - WI, USA, June 5, 2009
... to work in emerging industries like renewable energy or retrain to fill critical shortages in engineering, nursing and other fields,” Duncan says. ...
Feingold Bill Would Help Displaced Workers Find Health Care Jobs ...
By Racine News Team, June 4, 2009
“The Wisconsin Workforce Development Association commends Senator Feingold on the introduction of the Community-Based Healthcare Retraining Act. The highly publicized nursing shortage combined with an aging American population presents ...
Doctor and Patient Letting the Patient Call the Shots
New York Times - United States, June 4, 2009
If we doctors feel a person is going to make unwise choices, we have to take on the responsibility of being teachers, educators and informers. ...
Report: Second-degree nurses report higher pay, more work-family ...
McKnight's Long Term Care News - New York, NY, USA, June 4, 2009
Registered nurses whose first bachelor's degree is in a field other than nursing report higher levels of work-family conflict, more job certainty and ...
The 10 Hardest Jobs To Fill In America
Forbes - NY, USA, June 3
Exacerbating the shortage is a lack of educators able to train the next generation. Karen L. Miller, dean of the nursing school at the University of Kansas ...
UW-Green Bay names Block to interim dean post
UWGB - Wisconsin, USA, June 3, 2009
Her scholarship includes nursing and public health workforce development and planning and evaluation of public health programs and policies. “Prof. ...
Training doctors who mirror the new America
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - St. Louis, MO, USA, May 21,2009
By Craig Press, Debbie Chase and Will Ross As America struggles with the costs of health care and families hold tight to jobs that provide insurance, ...
Thrive: Regional healthcare data released
Wisbusiness.com - Madison, WI, USA, May 20, 2009
... determine the current and future workforce regional demands, implementing the Badger Career Network Alerts system for healthcare workforce recruitment ...
National League for Nursing Certified Nurse Educator CNE Program ...
Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale, WA, USA, May 20, 2009
The NLN's highly regarded certification program for academic nurse educators has been accredited by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA), ...
Pa Legislator Walks in Shoes of Direct Care Workers
WYTV - Youngstown, OH, USA, May 20, 2009
"The average wage for this workforce is about 10 dollars an hour in the state, and health care is very unaffordable, we see the rates increasing everyday. ...;
Which Way From Here?
EMS Magazine - College Park, MD, USA, May 19, 2009
EMS educators are looking for ways to fill classes. Working paramedics hope their agencies' vacant positions get filled, so overtime will diminish. ...
Taking Care of Our Caregivers
Washington Post - United States, May 18, 2009
... of Health and Human Services is deeply concerned about the needs of long-term care workers and maintaining an adequate and high-quality workforce. ...
Mismatch between supply and demand ails nursing profession
Puget Sound Business Journal - Seattle, WA, USA, May 18, 2009
Checking on a simulated patient are Seattle University nursing students, from left, Leslie Robinson, Christopher Delarosa and Bruce Mencias. ...
Minnesota Passes Legislation Allowing Mid-level Oral Health Provider
PR Newswire (press release) - New York, NY, USA, May 18, 2009
The underserved in Minnesota who have long struggled to obtain dental care that is so vital to their overall health will now have a new provider to seek ...
Western Governors University Offers Two New Master's Degrees in ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York, NY, USA, May 18, 2009
The RN to MSN--Education degree coursework, which is based on the standards established for Nurse Educators by the NLN and the ANCC, will prepare students ...
A guide to confusing (but promising) healthcare jobs
Chicago Tribune - United States, May 18, 2009
nps are registered nurses who have advanced degrees and other qualifications that meet states' nurse practitioner licensing requirements. ...
Health Outcomes Driving New Hospital Design
New York Times - United States, May 18, 2009
To prevent medication mix-ups and reduce the time nurses spend fetching drugs and supplies, a small locked cabinet called the nurse server will contain only ...
Industry Insider: Allied Health Care
Elites TV - Dickinson, TX, USA, May 18, 2009
These careers fall into the allied health care category and they work to make ... the twenty fastest growing occupations, eight of them are in health care. ...
Sebelius: New nurse, home health aide surveys designed to increase ...
McKnight's Long Term Care News - New York NY, USA, May 18, 2009
The recently released Department of Health and Human Services survey of long-term care nursing assistants (CNAs), and a forthcoming survey of home health ...
Groups Press for Long-Term Care to Be Part of Health Reform
ElderLawAnswers.com - Boston, MA, USA, May 15, 2009
The Senate Finance and Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committees are scheduled to finalize their legislative proposals for health care reform within ..
More providers won't solve all health care access problems
SmartBrief - Washington, DC, USA, May 15, 2009
A push to increase the number of new US medical providers is not enough to solve all of the health care work force problem, experts say. ...
Nursing Assistant Workforce Facing Financial And Health Challenges
RedOrbit - Dallas, TX, USA, May 14, 2009
A pioneering study of certified nursing assistants (CNAs) in nursing homes reveals that more than half of them incurred at least one work-related injury in ...
Cornyn and Harkin: Jumpstart workplace wellness
RedOrbit - Dallas, TX, USA, May 14, 2009
The Healthy Workforce Act's aim is to make it easier for all businesses to offer quality health-care coverage to their employees. It would create incentives ...
OTC nursing graduates are first of kind
News-Leader.com - Springfield, MO, USA, May 14, 2009
... Community College's associate of science in nursing program, which was established last year in the spirit of OTC's mission: workforce development. ...
Quality improvement program for Missouri nursing homes leads to ...
McKnight's Long Term Care News - New York, NY, USA, May 14, 2009
Nursing homes and long-term care facilities in Missouri showed significant care improvements and cost savings over the last three years as a result of the ...
Young boost diversity as population ages
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA, May 14, 2009
"We have a more useful workforce, and we have more young people in school. That costs more money up front, but it will repay huge benefits in 10 years when ...
Dentists drop opposition to new practitioner position
Minnesota Public Radio - Saint Paul, MN, USA, May 13, 2009
Minnesota's mid-level dental practitioner legislation is not a perfect solution to the workforce problem in the eyes of many dentists. ...
Staff Shortages in Labs May Put Patients at Risk
The Wall Street Journal online, USA, May 13, 2009
By Laura Landro. The swine-flu outbreak has focused a spotlight on a looming risk for hospitals and their patients: a shortage of technicians to run critical lab tests.Vanderbilt University Hospital's lab had to pull staffers from other parts of the hospital and ask technicians to work double shifts to test incoming patients for swine flu earlier this month. "It was all hands on deck for a week," says Michael Laposata, chief pathologist at the large medical center in Nashville, Tenn.
New proposal offers help for nurses
WFIE-TV - Evansville, IN, USA, May 13, 2009
INDIANA (WFIE) - Indiana Senator Evan Bayh's proposing a new act that will allow thousands of nurses to complete their education, and help put an end to the ...
Viewpoint: To solve nursing shortage, change attitudes about nurses
Baltimore Sun - United States, May 12, 2009
He has called for more nurse educators, included nurses in discussion of health reform, and appointed nurse Mary Wakefield to head the Health Resources and ...
Filling the gaps with midlevel health providers
Knoxville News Sentinel - Knoxville, TN, USA, May 12, 2009
“That ratio is skewing more toward PAs each year since the PA work force is increasing faster than that of physicians,” said Perri Morgan, ...
Are schools preparing kids who want a job rather than college life?
Knoxville News Sentinel - Knoxville, TN, USA, May 12, 2009
In the clinical internship class, students get the chance to rotate through field placements. "I've seen everything from intensive care to therapy to ...
Put primary care doctors at the center of reform
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA, May 12, 2009
By Deep Shah As a future physician in Georgia, I care deeply about the reshaping of our health care system. We need reforms that meaningfully enhance the ...
Health care interpreter roster now available
Capitol Report - St. Paul, MN, USA, May 11, 2009
By Capitol Report staff Health care providers can find health care interpreters through a new searchable database on the Minnesota Department of Health ...
"Dental care in short supply for low-income Wisconsin children"
JSOnline, Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee, WI, USA, May 10, 2009
On May 10 and 11 the Journal Sentinel ran an excellent 2-part series by Guy Boulton about the acute shortage of dental care for low-income people in WI: http://www.jsonline.com/business/44682137.html)
Immigration Amid a Recession
BusinessWeek - USA, May 8, 2009
That would disappoint employers in sectors such as health care,
farming, and technology, who say they're in need of workers despite rising
unemployment. ...
GE to invest $6 billion on health care over next 6 years
Milwaukee Small Business Times - Milwaukee, WI, USA, May 7, 2009
General Electric Co. announced this morning that it will invest $3 billion on health care innovation, intended to lower costs and improve care. ...
UW-Eau Claire: Nursing doctorate program on regents agenda this week
Wisbusiness.com - Madison, WI, USA, May 7, 2009
... the university fulfill changing practice requirements in the field of nursing and help meet the growing workforce demand for health care professionals. ...
HHS Budget Puts Reform First
Earthtimes (press release) - London, UK, May 7, 2009
Additionally, this funding will enhance the capacity of nursing schools, increase access to oral health care through dental workforce development grants, ...
Amid nurse shortage, hospitals focus on retention
North County Times - Californian - Escondido, CA, USA, May 6, 2009
By RASHA MADKOUR - AP | Wednesday, May 6, 2009 12:07 AM PDT ∞ Yaima Milian, right, who is in a nursing residency program, uses a stethoscope to check on ...
Foundation increases grant to continue personal health records work
Wisconsin Technology Network, May 4, 2009
Project HealthDesign, a national program designed to support health and information technology pioneers to create a new generation of personal health records (PHR) systems, has been awarded a $5.3 million addition to its grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, bringing the project's total funding to $10 million. By Philip Davis.
U.S. health data czar sees role for government hand
By Susan Heavey, Reuters, May 1, 2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Electronic health records need a nudge from the government if the technology is to become widespread, the nation's new health information technology czar said on Thursday.
AMA Health Care Careers May e-Letter
www.ama-assn.org, May 2009
- Featured profession: medical assisting
- Top 10 highest paying nonclinical careers
- Dear Reader feature, read about: outsourcing of medical transcription work, why there's a demand for health informatics, and the economic stimulus bill includes funding for health professions education.