Transcript Workforce Update

W-4 Workforce Update
October 10,2007
Sandra Fitzler
202-898-6307
sfitzler@ahca.org
Francesca Fierro O’Reilly
202-898-2852
foreilly@ahca.org
State Workforce Partnerships
Workforce Investment System
 Why Partner
 State Workforce Partnerships
 Outcomes
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State Workforce Partnerships
Lessons Learned
Make sure LTC employees are on the
State Target Occupations List
 WIB partnerships & education are needed
before asking for assistance
 Need to ask about state unexpended
workforce dollars
 RN education system a roadblock
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Nurse Workforce Efforts
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DOE – Nurse education & patient safety
study
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Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing
Excellence – Nursing Home Collaborative
AHCA Nurse Workforce Efforts
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Facility-based and paid Geriatric Nurse
Practitioners
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Retired LTC nurse – clinical instructor
Proposal - Using Retired LTC
Nurses as Clinical Instructors
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Rationale
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State Demonstration
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Barriers
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Next Steps
AHCA Workforce Efforts
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Employee Satisfaction Surveys
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Consistent Staffing Assignments
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Vacancy & Turnover Survey
MyInnerview Employee Surveys
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2006 Key Findings
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Recommendations
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Next Steps
2007 Nursing Vacancy & Turnover
Survey
OSHA
Site-Specific Targeting (SST) – 07
 Days Away, Restricted & Transfer (DART)
 Focus – Ergonomics, blood & infections,
material exposures, Tb, & slips/trips/falls
 Health Care Compliance Assistance
Module
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DOL Wage & Hour Compliance
Past ALF Compliance Levels
1998
57%
2001
60%
2005
72%
Past NF Compliance Levels
1997
70%
2000
40%
2004
55%
Wage & Hour Compliance
DOL’s LTC Guidance
 Youth Employment
Fact Sheet #52
 Hours Worked
Fact Sheet #53
 Overtime Pay
Fact Sheet #54
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www.dol.gov/dol/esa/public/healthcare/index.html
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LTC Compliance Manual
New SEIU Health Care Union
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Expected to be a 1 million member union
Combines the 38 local unions currently
representing healthcare workers
Govern by council – presidents of 38 locals
Main focus – add 80,000 to 100,000 new
members in the next year
PAC raised $40 million to influence a national
healthcare program