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Registration & Times
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Please register to attend at: http://hcapcowsjuly2015conference.eventbrite.com
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Thursday, July 9th – 8:30am to 5pm, Breakfast and Lunch provided
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Friday, July 10th – 8:30am to 1pm, Breakfast and Lunch provided
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Location & Hotel
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Hilton Crystal City at Washington Reagan National Airport
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2399 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, Virginia 22202
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Phone: 1-703-418-6800
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Code: HCR
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Nightly Rate: $119
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Cutoff Date: 6/12/2015
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Click here to reserve your hotel online.
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Objectives
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- Create a joint space for industry, government, foundations, researchers, and other stakeholders to identify and promote promising policy and practice that meets the workforce needs of healthcare.
- Build stronger labor/management partnership connections to government, workforce development organizations, funders, and healthcare workforce researchers. .
- Identify and promote replicable health care workforce and education innovations that protect the human capital investments made by labor and management.
- Set a workforce policy and research agenda to help achieve the Triple Aim of healthcare (better care, better health, lower cost).
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Schedule
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Plenary sessions held over both days will address issues such as partnering with government to leverage resources, an industry approach to population health, and how labor/management partnerships work together for scale and workforce outcomes. Poster sessions will highlight innovative workforce practices from programs around the country.
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Thursday, July 9, 8:30am – 5:30pm
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Includes the following workshops:
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Emerging Roles, Emerging Jobs: Care Coordination for Population Health
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Changes in healthcare delivery are giving rise to diverse models for integrating and coordinating care across the healthcare system. New jobs are emerging and existing ones changing in fundamental ways. Care coordination requires Community Health Workers (called by several names or titles), Care Coordinators who work across systems including acute, ambulatory, long term, and community based, and new roles for Nurses supporting population health. Hearing from employers and partnerships on new jobs and functions across systems and regions, will help us understand the models and roles that are emerging and provide a foundation for a discussion of policy frameworks to support and extend strong models and practice principles.
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Labor Management Training Funds for the Healthcare Industry: What They Are, How They Work, and Their Innovations
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Labor-Management Funds, with negotiated resources and engaged industry leadership, bring healthcare workforce development to scale through multi-employer and regional partnerships. These programs are successful in building career pathways for the low wage and diverse front line workforce and are at the forefront of national practice in successful delivery of workforce education and training. This session will delve into the structures and strategies of labor/management training partnerships and promote a discussion of policy and systems change work that could support their expansion and replication.
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The National Center for Healthcare Apprenticeship: Demonstrating the Value of Competency-Based Healthcare Apprenticeships
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New policies and federal resources are making it easier to build competency-based apprenticeships combining work and learning. The National Center is a response to this opportunity for training that meets healthcare employer and worker needs. With competency-based models now developed or in development for Advanced Home Care Aide, Community Health Worker, Medical Coding, and Nursing Assistant apprenticeships, we will use this session to consider those occupations and to look across all sectors of healthcare to identify lessons and the potential for industry based career pathways in our changing healthcare system.
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The Nursing Shortage this Time: What’s going on in Supply and Demand and What It Means for Nursing Education?
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Academics are noting the end of a nursing shortage in some major markets. Nursing schools have to make decisions allocation of resources in order to meet industry demand for BSN completions for experienced nurses and MSN degrees, while continuing to provide a pathway that supports diversity within the nursing profession. In this session, nursing leaders and educators will consider the data and the policy response that the healthcare industry requires.
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Toward More Effective Integration of Federal Workforce Policy and Industry Partnerships in Healthcare
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Three Federal Departments are essential to healthcare workforce development: DOL, Dept of Ed, and HHS/CMS. Each is undertaking initiatives that create opportunities for healthcare workers and employers throughout the nation. Increasingly, these federal departments are working across their traditional silos to align federal initiatives. These efforts are essential to creating a system where colleges are more responsive, where training for new entrants leads to career pathways, and where workers reap a portion of the value they create. In this session, these departments, together with industry partnerships, will have a chance to discuss initiatives, alignment, and the policy changes that will create a stronger healthcare workforce development system.
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The Interaction between Job Quality, Worker Training, and Healthy Communities, or How Quality Jobs Contribute to the Triple Aim
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Healthcare reform requires an engaged workforce with critical thinking skills and the ability to adapt to change. Some argue that the Triple Aim – better care, better health, and lower cost – cannot be secured without a well-trained and rewarded workforce. In this session we will dig into experience, data, and policy on these critical connections. Speakers will consider how to define job quality that not only supports worker engagement but also leads to a healthier workforce and a healthier community. What do we know about the relationship of job quality to population health? Can we pursue policy that will support the connection?
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Research on Healthcare Workforce: Opportunities for Exchange with Industry Partnerships.
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Researchers in health care workforce are looking at the implications of healthcare reform on the jobs, skills, and competencies needed to provide population health and quality care. Their work is increasingly important to inform industry partnerships in workforce planning and training. Researchers can benefit from working with labor/management partnerships with their access to a broad network of employers and workers who are affected by the changes. This session will examine opportunities for collaboration that supports workforce planning, effective training, and document the value of labor/management workforce programs.
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Sub-Acute Institutions Providing Long Term and Rehabilitative Care: How Are These Institutions Changing and What Does That Mean for Jobs, Skills, and Training?
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A trend that is moving patients out of hospitals and into sub-acute and community-based care is creating change for Nursing Homes and requiring new thinking about the jobs and staffing patterns needed to provide these services. A discussion by industry leaders of the challenges will help us define the research, resource, and policy needs to support institutions and provide opportunities for their workforce to gain new skills and advance their careers.
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The Advanced Homecare Worker: Creating the Job and Demonstrating the Value
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Across the country, systems are integrating care across institutions. This approach demands a reevaluation of the role that homecare workers can provide. Through daily interactions and strong relationships with those in their care, these workers can be essential actors in promoting health and avoiding unnecessary healthcare costs. Advocates for Home Care Workers and employers are considering advanced roles that support care integration and quality outcomes. In this session, participants will learn about the National Apprenticeship for the Advanced Home Care Aide. With a pilot involving more than ten employers in five states underway, we will use the session to learn more about the vision of stakeholders, discuss and refine thinking about needed competencies, and help crystallize the research needed to demonstrate its value.
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Trouble for the Safety Net: The Intersection of New Reimbursement Systems, Population Health, and the Most Disadvantaged
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New reimbursement policy is intended to support quality health outcomes. However, for those safety net institutions serving the most disadvantaged, these policies sometimes make it harder to get the reimbursements needed to care for their target populations. How can incentives be aligned to ameliorate health disparities, recognizing that more resources, not less, are required to serve this population? What can training for skills and quality contribute to aligning those incentives and improving outcomes? Experience from safety net hospitals and FHQCs will help shed some light on these issues.
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Friday, July 10, 8:30am – 1:00pm
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Friday will use the information discussed on the first day of the conference to create a collective policy and research platform.
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