Healthcare Sector Strategies / Information

You can access information and materials specific to the region's healthcare sector below.

Healthcare Workforce - Turning Crisis into Opportunity

This report highlights the Workforce Boards of Metropolitan Chicago's efforts to address critical skill shortages in metropolitan Chicago's healthcare workforce. It provides a snapshot of the workforce challenges facing the metropolitan Chicago region's healthcare industry and focuses on unfilled jobs, skill gaps, and related human resource and training issues. Additionally, the report includes solutions developed by the region's healthcare stakeholders and a description of initiatives funded under the Critical Skill Shortages Initiative.

Healthcare Workforce Summit: Summary

The Workforce Boards of Metropolitan Chicago convened the first-ever Healthcare Workforce Summit on Wednesday, December 4, 2003, at the Chicago Hilton and Towers. One hundred seventy regional leaders in the industries of healthcare and education participated in the five-hour event to explore ways of working together to solve regional healthcare workforce issues.

Summit: Agenda

Summit: Invitation

Summit: Post Event Press Release

Healthcare Retention Conference: Summary

The Retaining Your Healthcare Workforce: Creating Career Development Programs for Valued Employees conference was held at the Wyndham Drake Hotel located in Oak Brook, Illinois on Wednesday, September 28, 2004. Nearly 100 attendees from hospitals, long-term healthcare facilities, and community colleges throughout the region participated in the event. Participation in the conference was intended to help healthcare employers understand the cost-benefit of career development models and learn about the various procedures and strategies to assist in developing and retaining quality employees.

Healthcare Retention Conference: Agenda

Healthcare Retention Conference: Post Conference Press Release

Healthcare Retention Conference: Invitation

Healthcare Retention Conference Presentation: Clarian Health Partners

Presentation by Sherry Makely, Administrative Project Manager, Clarian Health Partners

Healthcare Retention Conference Presentation: Seattle Career Pathways Program

Presentation by Jennifer Abermanis, Administrator of System and Logistics, Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center and Sandy Clark, Initiatives Manager, Workforce Development Council of Seattle-King County

Healthcare Retention Conference Presentation: Sherman Hospital

Presentation by Jim Novak, Vice President Human Resources, Sherman Hospital; Claudia Voisard, Independent Consultant; and Ruth Peterson, Coordinator Training/Development, Sherman Hospital

Job Vacancy Report

This report provides the results of a survey conducted as an initial step in the planning activities for the Critical Skills Shortage Initiative in healthcare. The report summarizes survey results, including vacancy, compensation, benefit and recruitment data for critical skills shortage healthcare occupations. Acute care (hospitals), long-term care (skilled nursing, assisted living) and ambulatory care (public health clinics, medical group practices) were included in the survey.

CSSI Awareness and Perception Focus Groups

This report presents results of focus group sessions conducted with high school students for the purpose of determining perceptions and misperceptions associated with career opportunities in the healthcare sector.

Inventory of Producers

This inventory of healthcare producers identifies training programs in the Northeast Economic Development Region that supply the pipeline for Tier I and II critical skill shortage occupations. The summary includes pertinent program data, such as capacity, cost, and degrees.

Regulatory and Policy Analysis

This report provides the reader with an understanding of the regulations and both public and private sector policies that impact the supply of and demand for healthcare professionals.

Healthcare Industry: Career Progression Analysis

This report identifies career advancement strategies for targeted CSSI occupations in the metropolitan Chicago region.