Purpose:
Inform, coordinate and facilitate statewide efforts to ensure that a well-trained, adequately distributed, and flexible healthcare workforce is available to meet the needs of an efficient and effective healthcare system in Oklahoma.
Goals/Objectives:
- By October 2016, statewide health workforce efforts are being coordinated through a single, centralized entity.
- By January 2016, labor demand and program supply for 20 critical healthcare occupations are identified and quantified through the development of a longitudinal, multi-sourced data set that is available for public use.
- By October 2019, strategies are in place to reduce identified supply gaps for 20 critical health occupations.
- By November 2019, at least five recommended policies and programs that support and retain an optimized health workforce have been implemented.
Action Items:
- Conduct data analysis and prepare reports on health workforce supply and demand;
- Research and analysis of state health professional education and training capacity;
- Recommend recruitment and retention strategies for areas determined by the Oklahoma Primary Care Office or the Oklahoma Office of Rural Health to be areas of high need; and
- Assessment of health workforce policy, evaluation of impact on Oklahoma’s health system and health outcomes, and developing health workforce policy recommendations.
Reports:
Steven A. Crawford, MD, DABFM, FAAFP, Co-chair
The Christian N. Ramsey, Jr., MD Endowed Chair in Family Medicine
Professor & Chair
Department of Family & Preventive Medicine
University of Oklahoma College of Medicine
Teresa Huggins, Co-chair
Chief Executive Officer
Stigler Health and Wellness Center, Inc.
Brittane Grant
Brittane.grant@okcommerce.gov
Oklahoma Office of Workforce Development