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Clinical Support Personnel In The U.S. Hospitals: Job Trends From 2010-2014, Patricia Pittman, Suhui Li, Xinxin Han
Clinical Support Personnel In The U.S. Hospitals: Job Trends From 2010-2014, Patricia Pittman, Suhui Li, Xinxin Han
Health Workforce Research Center Publications
The use of various forms of Clinical Support Personnel (CSP), who perform healthcare tasks under the supervision of registered nurses and other licensed healthcare providers has been used as a primary strategy for managing professional shortages (Huston, 1996; Zimmerman, 2000), while at the same time reducing costs (Orne, Garland, O’Hara, Perfetto, & Stielau, 1998; Keenan, 2003). The purpose of this analysis is to better understand how hospitals are using CSP, and to explore changes that may have occurred since the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act. We use the term CSP to refer to a portion of the allied …
Workforce Planning & Development In Times Of Delivery System Transformation: The Stories Of Kaiser Permanente And Montefiore Health System, Patricia Pittman, Ellen Scully-Russ
Workforce Planning & Development In Times Of Delivery System Transformation: The Stories Of Kaiser Permanente And Montefiore Health System, Patricia Pittman, Ellen Scully-Russ
Health Workforce Research Center Publications
As the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) advances, many health systems are taking bold measures to reorganize how they deliver care, and finding that in order to do so; they need to make major changes in how their healthcare workforces are organized.
Understanding what workforce changes are occurring and how they are being managed is important not just for healthcare leaders, but for policymakers as well. Traditional methods of projecting provider shortages and justifying the allocation of public funding to expand various professional pipelines are giving way to the notion that there are many models of care delivery …
Community Health Workers: Health System Integration, Financing Opportunities, And The Evolving Role Of The Community Health Worker In A Post-Health Reform Landsacape, Mary-Beth Malcarney, Patricia Pittman, Leo Quigley, Naomi Seiler, Katie B. Horton
Community Health Workers: Health System Integration, Financing Opportunities, And The Evolving Role Of The Community Health Worker In A Post-Health Reform Landsacape, Mary-Beth Malcarney, Patricia Pittman, Leo Quigley, Naomi Seiler, Katie B. Horton
Health Workforce Research Center Publications
Community Health Workers (CHWs) have been gaining attention from policymakers because of their unique role in addressing health disparities and socioeconomic drivers of disease, and because of their potential integration into the health care delivery system. To date, there has been limited research specifically describing the variation in CHWs’ roles and relationships, and how that variation relates to management, to financing, to health system integration, and to the competencies CHWs should have in different contexts.
The purpose of this report is to better understand the varied landscape; to offer categories of analysis that may help inform policy, management, and research; …
Longitudinal Analysis Of Electronic Health Records On Staffing Mix In Community Health Centers, Bianca K. Frogner, Xiaoli Wu, Jeongyoung Park, Patricia Pittman
Longitudinal Analysis Of Electronic Health Records On Staffing Mix In Community Health Centers, Bianca K. Frogner, Xiaoli Wu, Jeongyoung Park, Patricia Pittman
Health Workforce Research Center Publications
Community health centers (CHCs) have long faced clinical staffing challenges especially in rural areas of the US due to providers perceiving a lack of socioeconomic opportunities. A recent study found that CHCs are adaptable and manage to maintain productivity levels across different staffing configurations by leveraging the clinical staff available. What is unknown is how two major changes in the health care landscape—adoption of an electronic health record (EHR) system and recognition of being a patient-centered medical home (PCMH)—have impacted staffing in CHCs, which may in turn have productivity implications.