Through this site, NWRPCA connects Region X health centers to resources that promote best practices, connect job seekers to health centers,combat professional isolation and keep health center staff informed about issues that impact their work.
National Center for the Analysis of Healthcare Data
The Center’s mission is to provide data mapping and analysis support of your advocacy, medical education planning/expansion, research, and other healthcare workforce planning using both your data and ours which includes the nation’s most complete collection of physician and non-physician data, demographic, socio-economic, and political data.
National Center for Rural Health Works
The National Center for Rural Health Works provides tools and templates by which community residents can evaluate their health systems. This is typically accomplished by training state teams to assist rural communities. The National Center (or RHW) provides training, tools, templates, and technical assistance in the following areas: Economic...
Oregon PCO Healthcare Workforce Retention Toolkit
Retaining health care providers, particularly those who have received financial incentives to practice in underserved areas, can be a challenge for many clinics and communities. The PCO, with the help of all of the partners in the Workforce Recruitment and Retention Partnership, has developed the “Healthcare Workforce Retention Toolkit”...
CHI Colorado Health Care Workforce Resources
This catalog of fact sheets, reports, and presentations offers a look at the health care workforce in Colorado.
MTSU – Center for Interdisciplinary Health Workforce Studies
The Center for Interdisciplinary Health Workforce Studies’ (The Center) mission is to measurably improve the performance of the health delivery enterprise of the national health care delivery system. With its exemplary depth of expertise, the Center will have a vital impact on the transformation of healthcare through research excellence, evidence...
AAFP Medical School & Residency Resources
The American Academy of Family Physicians and its chapters represent more than 115,900 family physician, resident, and medical student members. This comprehensive site offers information on family medicine, training, and other issues.
HRSA – Bureau of Health Workforce
The Bureau of Health Workforce programs help America build a health care workforce prepared and eager to improve the public health by expanding access to quality health services and working to achieve health equity. The Bureau of Health Workforce was created in May 2014, integrating HRSA workforce programs previously...
Graham Center: Trends in Physician Supply and Population Growth
The physician workforce has steadily grown faster than the U.S. population over the past 30 years, context that is often absent in conversations anticipating physician scarcity. Policy makers addressing future physician shortages should also direct resources to ensure specialty and geographic distribution that best serves population health.
Graham Center Unequal Distribution of the US Primary Care Workforce
The United States is facing a primary care physician shortage, but the most pressing problem is uneven distribution, particularly in poor and rural communities. Providing adequate access to care for the nearly 30 million uninsured people living in these communities will require potent incentives and policy.