Healthcare Workforce Subcommittee

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:

• Nursing Professions in Oklahoma Issue Brief, August 2018
• Nursing Workforce Report, March 2018
• Physician Supply Brief, September 2017