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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
A robust and diverse workforce that includes engaged clinical and technical professionals is essential to realize the full potential of information and technology to transform health. Learn more with the HIMSS Podcasts for Healthcare IT Leaders: Workforce Development.
Taking steps to promote diversity and inclusion in your organization can have a significant positive impact on your recruitment and retention efforts. Join the STAR² Center and our expert guest faculty from the Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO) and the National Health Care for the Homeless...
This policy issue brief released in March 2019 discusses the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education program.
The STAR² Center is a project of the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved
