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Key Facts about the Health Workforce

The health-care shortage we face in the United States is serious. Some experts may argue that there is no cause for alarm, because work-force shortages are cyclical, market-driven, and easily ameliorated. But that perspective is not valid today. The work-force shortfall in health care cannot be resolved in the marketplace alone. It is time for organized action, not only within colleges, but also at our nation's highest levels.  [Read more…]

A crisis Looms

Economic Impact of Workforce
Evidence of Shortages
Rising Demand for Health Services
Faculty Shortages
Physician Workforce Makeup
Workforce Diversity
Schools and Enrollment
Financing Medical Education
Student Debt

 

Economic Impact of Workforce

Evidence of Shortages

Academic Health Center CEOs Say Faculty Shortages Threaten Health Workforce.
Government unaware of growing crisis

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WASHINGTON - Worsening faculty shortages in academic health centers are threatening the nation’s health professions educational infrastructure, according to the latest report by the Association of Academic Health Centers (AAHC). Based on a questionnaire of AAHC members – the CEOs of academic health centers nationwide – the report found that 94 percent of CEOs think faculty shortages are a problem in at least one health professions school, and 69 percent think that these shortages are a problem for the entire institution.(more...)

States Lack Clear Agenda to Avoid Health Workforce Crises
AAHC finds that fragmented infrastructure, limited focus hamper state efforts

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The latest report from the Association of Academic Health Centers (AAHC), State Actions & the Health Workforce Crisis, finds that states lack comprehensive and coordinated long-term planning for the health workforce and thus are ill-prepared to address an emerging national health workforce crisis.

Rising Demand for Health Services

Faculty Shortages

Physician Workforce Makeup

AAHC Actions:

The AAHC is engaged in a major initiative on the health workforce, funded in part by the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, which is currently focused on workforce shortages and looking across the professions to identify commonalities and differences in terms of the reasons for shortages and how they are manifest in various care sites, and the implications of shortages for the nation.

The AAHC has called for action on the health workforce, noting that the U.S. has no vision or strategic plan to develop and protect such a workforce (press release).

The AAHC hosted a series of events at which nationally recognized workforce experts, health providers, regulators and other stakeholders examined barriers, strategies and options for expanding capacity.
The AAHC is identifying potential practicable solutions, which will involve policies at all levels and a broad range of stakeholders. The AAHC will be issuing a report this fall with recommendations for action.

Workforce Diversity

Schools and Enrollment

Financing Medical Education

Student Debt