Health centers are balancing the wellbeing and safety of their workforce with the need to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. While “essential” staff are needed on the frontline, “non-essential” staff are either sent home to wait out the pandemic, or are deployed to perform alternative services to support COVID-19...
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The Power of Stay Interviews Learning Collaborative
Description The Power of Stay Interviews learning collaborative is designed to cut employee turnover, and has done so for healthcare workers, specifically cutting nurse turnover by 35%. The course will direct all participants to implement Finnegan’s Arrow℠, an invention that replaces traditional HR-driven one-sized-fits-all programs with training each leader to...
View moreSTAR² Center 19-20 PCA & HCCN Professional Development Series – Session 3
This is the third session in the STAR² Center’s 2019-2020 PCA & HCCN Professional Development Series. It was presented on March 19, 2020. The STAR² Center team was joined on the line by Amanda Schiessl of Community Health Center, Inc. who discussed the importance of staff experience from the...
View moreSTAR² Center 19-20 PCA & HCCN Professional Development Series – Session 2
This is the second session in the STAR² Center’s 2019-2020 PCA & HCCN Professional Development Series. It was presented on February 20, 2020 and featured the STAR² Center’s Suzanne Speer discussing the importance of including retention in recruitment strategies. Judd Mellinger-Blouch of the Pennsylvania Association of Community Health Centers...
View moreSTAR² Center 19-20 PCA & HCCN Professional Development Series – Session 1
This is the first session in the STAR² Center’s 2019-2020 PCA & HCCN Professional Development Series. It was presented on January 30, 2020 and covered the major topics that the STAR² Center and guest faculty will cover throughout the series. Slides from this session are available for download here.
View moreRetention Academy: Resources for Retention
Description ACU invites health center C-suite and management staff to participate in the third annual Retention Academy. The Retention Academy brings together leaders from up to 25 health centers to discuss and implement scalable strategies to increase health center workforce retention. This year’s Retention Academy will focus on four...
View morePCA & HCCN Workforce Professional Development Series 2019-2020
The STAR2 Center team invites PCA and HCCN workforce staff to participate in an upcoming professional development series. This series will begin with an assessment of current workforce TTA approaches and end with the development of a strong TTA plan to support health center staff retention. This series will...
View moreExamining the Cost Effectiveness of Teaching Health Centers
This policy issue brief released in March 2019 discusses the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education program.
View moreNIHCM – The Science of Well-being & Why It Matters
This webinar discussed the science of happiness and well-being and how it can be applied in our daily lives, including: Research demonstrating that we can become happier by finding contentment and strengthening our social connections Evidence that employers are increasingly focused on well-being and providing benefits like paid family...
View moreHRSA – Health Workforce Research Centers
The Health Workforce Research Centers support research to assist decision-makers at the federal, state and local levels to better understand health workforce needs. This page contains a directory of Health Workforce Research Centers.
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