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Health Care Workforce forum
It is estimated that CT will need 9,000 more direct health care workers in the next five years. The CT Commission on Aging is sponsoring “The Direct Care Workforce: Meeting the Demand and Responding to the Needs of CT Residents” Friday Jan. 27th from 10 am to noon in Room 1D of the LOB. The…
Read MoreHealth care jobs bubble?
An entertaining video from Marketplace explains the folly of policymakers who expect health care to solve their economic troubles. Oh The Jobs (Debt?) You’ll Create! from Marketplace on Vimeo.
Read MoreCourant photoblog on health care salaries
One of the Hartford Courant’s online featured photo galleries compares average salaries for health care workers in Connecticut. The highest are obstetricians and gynecologists at $209,160; lowest are home health aides averaging $29,020. Ellen Andrews
Read MoreCT gets federal grant for health care workforce planning
The CT Employment & Training Commission and the CT Office for Workforce Competitiveness were successful in their application to HHS for $150,000 to support the CT Workforce Investment Strategies in Health Care (WISH) Planning Grant. The funds will be used to produce a statewide health care workforce plan, coordinate disparate planning efforts, strengthen regional workforce…
Read MoreCT nursing school graduate survey results
The CT League for Nursing fielded a survey of 2010 nursing school graduates for the SustiNet Health Care Workforce Task Force; the CT Health Policy Project analyzed the data. The survey found that virtually all the graduates plan to stay in CT, and most intend to work full time. Two out of three are graduating…
Read MoreWebinar on DPH health care workforce programs, addition to medical home webinar
Thursday, Feb. 25th at 3pm, speakers from DPH will join the SustiNet Health Care Workforce Task Force on a webinar to describe their health care workforce programs. Kristin Sullivan will discuss the public health workforce, Jennifer Filippone will describe J-1 Visas and online licensure, and Johanna David will present on the National Health Service Corp.…
Read MoreSustiNet Board and Workforce Task Force meetings
Yesterday the SustiNet Board heard from eHealthConnecticut , a CT nonprofit created four years ago to develop a secure statewide health information exchange. The Board includes broad representation across the health care spectrum including physicians, hospitals, clinics, pharmacists, employers, insurers, academics, quality organizations, state agencies, policymakers and consumer advocates including the CT Health Policy Project.…
Read MoreHealth insurance employment in perspective
Yesterday’s Hartford Courant reports that just over 19,000 CT residents are employed at CT’s large health insurers – Aetna, United, CIGNA, HealthNet, Anthem and ConnectiCare. While impressive, those numbers pale in comparison to the number of CT residents employed in providing health services, according to the CT Dept. of Labor’s July report – 198,800. That…
Read MoreUnemployment up, but not for health care
Friday’s national unemployment numbers for May were up to 9.4% from 8.9% in April. Since December 2007 when this recession began, 7 million more Americans are unemployed. A study published in January by the Urban Institute estimated that if unemployment reaches 10% this year, 13.2 million Americans will lose employer-sponsored coverage, Medicaid and SCHIP will…
Read MoreHealth care jobs carry CT’s employment outlook
The current issue of The CT Economic Digest, from the CT Dept. of Labor, reports that between December and April both CT and the US have had four consecutive months of contracting employment. (Apparently this isn’t bad enough for economists to label it a recession yet.) Historically CT’s employment downturns average 24 months while US…
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