![]() We also need to measure staffing and staffing levels. This can happen through Medicare, or it can happen through legislation at the state or at the federal level. Patricia Pittman, Ph.D.: “I think the main policy levels here are safe staffing ratios for hospitals.The vision of the national plan is that people are cared for by a health workforce that is thriving in an environment that fosters their wellbeing as they improve population health.” We had the National Plan for Health Workforce Wellbeing. released the Advisory on building a thriving health workforce. Farida Ahmed, MHS: “In 2022, the Surgeon General and president usually joked as it being like a one-two punch.The number one reason that people say they’re leaving is inadequate staffing.” We have a real problem in terms of attrition. 60% of critical care nurses in ICUs are planning to leave in the next year. Now, plans are not always materialized, but these are what people say in surveys. We know that 39% of nurses are planning to leave in the next year and 28% plan to reduce hours. Most of that attrition happened in hospitals and the hospital vacancy rates continue to be really high. ![]() Patricia Pittman, Ph.D.: “We know that in 2021 we had over a hundred thousand full-time nurses that left nursing and that most of those nurses were under 35.It’s particularly true in marginalized and vulnerable populations.” April Damian, Ph.D., MSc: “Part of the challenge right now with us falling short of a person-first healthcare system is that leadership, as well as those who are patient-facing, don’t necessarily relate to or represent the lived experiences of the patient populations that they’re serving.We have a problem in the way we pay physicians it’s driving the maldistribution by specialty. This is largely driven by the issue of income. We lose them through the specialization process. When we are graduating folks from the residency, it actually adds up to about 54%, but after the residency, it goes up to below 30%. Patricia Pittman, Ph.D.: “ COGME recommends about 40% of our physician workforce should be primary care.Farida Ahmed, MHS, Associate Program Officer, National Academy of Sciences.Murielle Beene, DNP, MBA, MPH, MS, RN-BC, Senior Vice President and Chief Health Informatics Officer, Trinity Health.April Joy Damian, Ph.D., MSc, Vice President and Director, Weitzman Institute.Patricia Pittman, Ph.D., Fitzhugh Mullan Professor of Health Workforce Equity, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University.Sheila- Pradia Williams, MBA, Deputy Associate Administrator at the Bureau of Health Workforce, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).Health Care Workforce in Achieving a Person-Centered Health System,” covered the current state of the health care workforce, identified key challenges that create barriers to advancing person-first care, and explored potential opportunities for policy change. On Wednesday, November 1, the Alliance for Health Policy hosted a public congressional briefing as the final event in the 2023 Signature Series.
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