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| Developing and retaining the workforce is a challenge for all employers, but for healthcare providers it’s a necessity. As some of the largest employers in their communities, Massachusetts hospitals now have the opportunity to receive a maximum of $50,000 to develop strategies to retain their older workforce and share best practices with The Older Worker Retention Strategies Grant. Applications are available now until August and announcements of funding will be made on or after September 19, 2008.
Click here to read the grant announcement letter.
Click here for the Older Worker Retention Strategies Application.
Click here for more information on older worker retention strategies.
If you have questions or would like a partner in the grant application, please contact the Massachusetts Hospital Association’s Senior Director of Clinical Affairs, Pat Noga, R.N., at (781) 262-6045 or pnoga@mhalink.org
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A safe and high-quality hospital requires talented and dedicated
caregivers.
Yet Massachusetts hospitals – along with providers across
the United States – are facing one of the most dramatic shortages
of health care personnel in
recent history.
The projected shortage of RNs is expected to increase rapidly in
the coming years. And the ongoing shortage of nursing school faculty
means that young people wanting to enter the profession are being
turned away from colleges that do not have enough educators. Hospitals
and other providers also are facing an increased demand for –
and diminishing supply of – physical therapists, radiology
and lab technicians, and pharmacists.
Health care policy makers – including those from Massachusetts
hospitals and the Massachusetts Organization of Nurse Executives
(MONE) – care about building a workforce of qualified and
committed nurses and other care giving professionals.
- In 2002, the American Hospital Association released In Our
Hands: How Hospital Leaders Can Build a Thriving Workforce, which
spurred hospital associations and others to address the workforce
problem by focusing on ways to support and retain hospital staff.
- In June 2002,Massachusetts-based nursing and health care organizations
came together to address the nursing shortage in Massachusetts.
The group helped develop the Massachusetts Center for Nursing
dedicated to the ongoing recruitment and retention of registered
nurses in Massachusetts.
- Hospitals and other health care providers are working with
the state Board of Higher
Education on a nursing initiative to recruit and increase retention
of nursing students, increase opportunities to enter the health
care professions, and expand nursing faculty.
- The hospital community also supports Senator Richard Moore’s
“Patient Safety Act,” which will help expand the supply
of caregivers through a series of initiatives that join hospitals,
state government, and higher education.
- And the hospital community created “Patients First.”
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