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2009 Health Professions Workforce Inventory

Health Professions Workforce Inventory The 2009 Health Professions Workforce Inventory profiles educational programs that provide training related to 20 health professions as well as workforce initiatives that strive to increase awareness of health care opportunities. Funded by The Colorado Trust as part of its focus on increasing the number of health professionals, the inventory is designed to be a tool to increase statewide collaboration among health workforce coalitions, educational institutions and workforce development organizations.

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Adams County Commissioners Career Expo

Organization: Adams County Education Consortium
Type: Workforce Initiative
Expose 8th grade students to the full breadth of career opportunities available and allow them access to professionals in these areas who can answer their questions. Support the academic development of these students toward this goal by providing access to higher education professionals for general education and career specific questions.

Aims Community College Scholarship

Organization: Aims Community College
Type: Workforce Initiative

Alcanzar Med Prep Program

Organization: Aims Community College
Type: Workforce Initiative

Building Data on the Wests Health Care Workforce

Organization: Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education
Type: Workforce Initiative

Certified Nurse Assistant

Organization: Western Colorado Area Health Education Center
Type: Workforce Initiative
Trains individuals as Certified Nurse Assistants.

Collaboration with the University of Colorado School of Medicine

Organization: Commission on Family Medicine
Type: Workforce Initiative

Colorado Health Care Provider Loan Repayment Program

Organization: CollegeInvest
Type: Workforce Initiative

Colorado Health Professionals Loan Repayment Program

Organization: Colorado Area Health Education Center System
Type: Workforce Initiative

Colorado Hospital Association CHA Career Connection

Organization: Colorado Hospital Association/Support Services, Inc.
Type: Workforce Initiative

Colorado Loan Incentive for Teachers of Nursing Program

Organization: CollegeInvest
Type: Workforce Initiative
Program is designed to encourage nursing professionals with an advanced degree to teach at eligible Colorado colleges.

Colorado Provider Recruitment Program

Organization: Colorado Rural Health Center
Type: Workforce Initiative
A non-profit recruitment program that assists rural, and urban safety-net, clinics with finding providers.

Colorado Rural Oral Health Workforce Initiative

Organization: Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment: Oral Health Unit of the Preventive Services Division
Type: Workforce Initiative
To promote dental providers to practice in rural areas through the assessment of current rural practitioners, exposure of students to rural settings, and loan repayment for those working in rural areas.

Colorado Rural Outreach Program CROP

Organization: Colorado Rural Health Center
Type: Workforce Initiative
A loan repayment program for any type of health care worker. Must be practicing in a rural county in Colorado. Requires a financial match from the applicant.

Colorado Rural Recruitment and Retention Network

Organization: Colorado Rural Health Center
Type: Workforce Initiative
This is a federal initiative, of which we are part of. 3RNet allows one representative from each state in the nation to administer state information on this site, including posting for open jobs. We are the administrator for Colorado. We receive a large percentage of our candidates from this source.

Colorado Speech Language Hearing Foundation Elizabeth G Jancosek Graduate Student Scholarship

Organization: Colorado Speech-Language Hearing Foundation
Type: Workforce Initiative
The Foundation offers scholarhips to students enrolled in graduate programs in Colorado in the area of communication disorders and audiology. Professional Studies grants are offered to SLPs and/or audiologists for continuing education.

Colorado Trust Scholars Program

Organization: San Luis Valley Area Health Education Center
Type: Workforce Initiative
This initiative is set up to financially assist students in a health care masters level education program.

Conrad 30 J 1 Visa Waiver Program

Organization: Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment: Primary Care Office
Type: Workforce Initiative
Supports immigration waivers for physicians who agree to work in a area of workforce shortage for three years.

Continuing Education Courses for Health Care Professionals and Consumers

Organization: Western Colorado Area Health Education Center
Type: Workforce Initiative
A variety of continuing education courses may be offered, and aree based on requests and or identified needs including programs for nurses, mid-level health care providers, physicians .

currently dont have one

Organization: Hispanic Chamber Education Foundation
Type: Workforce Initiative
We currently do not have a workforce initiative.

Data collection Biennial Salary Benefits and Turnover Survey of Colorados FQHCs

Organization: Colorado Community Health Network
Type: Workforce Initiative
This report provides details on compensation, benefits, and turnover rates at CHCs, including: salary information about 78 different administrative and clinical positions, salary trend comparisons from 1998 to 2008,comparison of CHC salary information to other published salary data, employee benefits and employer contributions to 22 different benefits, and turnover rates for six different employee groups.

Dental Hygienist Associates Degree

Organization: Colorado Northwestern Community College, Dental Hygiene Department
Type: Educational Program

Dental Hygienist Associates Degree

Organization: Community College of Denver-Lowry
Type: Educational Program

Dental Hygienist Associates Degree

Organization: Pueblo Community College, Department of Dental Hygiene
Type: Educational Program

Dental Hygienist Associates Degree

Organization: University of Denver, Graduate School of Professional Psychology
Type: Educational Program

Dental Loan Repayment Program

Organization: Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment: Oral Health Unit of the Preventive Services Division
Type: Workforce Initiative
To promote the oral health workforce to serve underserved populations including Medicaid, CHP+, Uninsured, and Old Age Pension recipients by providing loan repayment opportunity for those that do.

Diagnostic Medical Sonography

Organization: Pueblo Community College
Type: Workforce Initiative
To educate and provide qualified Diagnostic Medical Sonographers to underserved areas of Southeast Colorado

Distance Learning Program

Organization: Community Health Association of Mountain/Plains States
Type: Workforce Initiative
Provides opportunities for affordable and convenient continuing education to enhance the attractiveness of careers in health centers and strengthen health center organizations through access to current best practices. Implemented in March 2004 in response to a tele-education needs assessment of Region VIII community health centers that indicated a high interest in Web-based distance learning opportunities. Webcasts are available for continuing medical education credit and are offered in archived versions for one year past the live event date.

Emergency Medical and Trauma Services Provider Grants

Organization: Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment: Emergency Medical and Trauma Services Section
Type: Workforce Initiative
The initiative is evolving. Currently, the initiative supports training and recruitment and retention efforts.

Experience 9 to 5

Organization: Adams County Education Consortium
Type: Workforce Initiative
High school students are provided up to 10 contact hours within an area of professional interest. They meet with professionals in the track of study that is most interesting to them to learn about skills needed to be successful, career paths common in the industry and hands-on experience doing work typical of that profession.

Family Medicine OB Fellowship Pilot

Organization: Commission on Family Medicine
Type: Workforce Initiative
Advanced OB training for a family physician interested in working in rural health.

Grow Your Own Summer Health Careers Institute Student Health Careers Guild

Organization: San Luis Valley Area Health Education Center
Type: Workforce Initiative
"Grow Your Own" is a youth pipeline health careers awareness program intended to serve SLV high school sophomores, juniors and seniors expressing an interest in pursuing a health career. The program in Colorado was established at the SLVAHEC in 1979. The program today has also incorporated into the "Grow Your Own" program the Student Health Careers Guild.

Health Professions Opportunity Day

Organization: University of Colorado Denver - Anschutz Medical Campus - Office of Diversity
Type: Workforce Initiative

Health Professions Workforce Initiative

Organization: Colorado Area Health Education Center System
Type: Workforce Initiative
Interdisciplinary Rural Track Summer Health Career Institute Health Professions Scholarship

Health Sciences Student Housing

Organization: San Luis Valley Area Health Education Center
Type: Workforce Initiative
The SLVAHEC houses University of Colorado Denver Health Sciences Center students performing their clinical rotations in the San Luis Valley.

Healthcare Pipeline Development

Organization: Adams County Education Consortium
Type: Workforce Initiative
ACEC is convening a multi-county effort to reduce the healthcare bottleneck by: 1. Addressing the lack of training capacity 2. Addrssing the lack of clinical sites 3. Addressing the insufficient success rate of students

Improving Access to Cardiovascular Care for the Latino Population in Northeast Colorado

Organization: Rural Solutions
Type: Workforce Initiative
Rural Solutions works in the ten counties of Northeast Colorado to improve access to cardiovascular care for the Latino population. The region has four Latino outreach workers who help the population navigate the medical system. The workers also educate them on nutrition and good overall health. We also provide cultural awareness trainings to professionals who work with other cultures.

Industry Bus Tour

Organization: Adams County Education Consortium
Type: Workforce Initiative
The Bus Tour brings business professionals into high schools across multiple districts in order to meet the students and educators responsible for preparation of new employees for the industry.

Interdisciplinary Rural Tracks

Organization: University of Colorado Denver, School of Medicine: Rural Track
Type: Workforce Initiative
Developing programs that will involve students from the various health professions schools in interdisciplinary learning experiences. Assisting the various health professions schools at the Health Sciences Center to develop rural tracks similar to the School of Medicine's Rural Track.

Inventory of Rural Health Practice Incentives in the Western WICHE States

Organization: Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education
Type: Workforce Initiative

Latino Professional Development Program at North Range Behavioral Health

Organization: North Range Behavioral Health
Type: Workforce Initiative
Provides training and education to approximately 2-3 Bilingual Latinos to become mental health professional. Offers payment for tuition and paid internships for selected students.

Marva Jean Jackson MJJ Rural Community Health Scholarships

Organization: Colorado Rural Health Center
Type: Workforce Initiative
This is a small grow your own scholarship program for rural communities. Any community member who wants to continue their education in the health field can have their community or facility apply on their behalf for a $1,000 scholarship.

Mentoring Program A Partnership with the University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine

Organization: Colorado Dental Association
Type: Workforce Initiative

None

Organization: Denver Health Foundation
Type: Workforce Initiative

Northern Front Range Health Care Consortium

Organization: Columbine Health Systems
Type: Workforce Initiative
We meet 6 times per year to discuss needs, barriers, opportunities, successes within our organization and with our partners in Northern Colorado. We look for common areas of concern and need and determine where we can move the need to best have it dealt with. We also look to increase relationships and to strenghten partnerships and opportunities to move all of our collective needs forward in regards to health care education and employment.

Nurse Advanced Practice Nurse Doctoral Degree

Organization: University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Advanced Practice Nurse Doctoral Degree

Organization: University of Northern Colorado
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Advanced Practice Nurse Doctoral Degree

Organization: Western Colorado Area Health Education Center
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Advanced Practice Nurse Masters Degree

Organization: Regis University
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Advanced Practice Nurse Masters Degree

Organization: University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Advanced Practice Nurse Masters Degree

Organization: University of Northern Colorado
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Advanced Practice Nurse Masters Degree

Organization: Western Colorado Area Health Education Center
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Certified Nursing Assistant Certificate

Organization: Agape Angelicum School of Nursing Arts
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Certified Nursing Assistant Certificate

Organization: Aims Community College
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Certified Nursing Assistant Certificate

Organization: Colorado Northwestern Community College, Nursing Department
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Certified Nursing Assistant Certificate

Organization: Columbine Health Systems
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Certified Nursing Assistant Certificate

Organization: Mesa State College
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Certified Nursing Assistant Certificate

Organization: Northeastern Junior College
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Certified Nursing Assistant Certificate

Organization: Otero Junior College
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Certified Nursing Assistant Certificate

Organization: Shalom Park
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Certified Nursing Assistant Certificate

Organization: St. Luke's Ministry
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Certified Nursing Assistant Certificate

Organization: University of Colorado Denver, Child Health Associate/Physician Assistant Program
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Certified Nursing Assistant Certificate

Organization: University of Phoenix, Department of Nursing
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Certified Nursing Assistant Certificate

Organization: Western Colorado Area Health Education Center
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Certified Nursing Assistant Diploma

Organization: Front Range Nurse Aide Training Program, Nurse Nancy LLC
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Licensed Practical Nurse Certificate

Organization: Colorado Northwestern Community College, Dental Hygiene Department
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Licensed Practical Nurse Certificate

Organization: Delta-Montrose Technical College
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Licensed Practical Nurse Certificate

Organization: Northeastern Junior College
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Licensed Practical Nurse Certificate

Organization: Pickens Technical College
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Licensed Practical Nurse Certificate

Organization: Shalom Park
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Registered Nurse Associates Degree

Organization: Aims Community College
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Registered Nurse Associates Degree

Organization: Arapahoe Community College
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Registered Nurse Associates Degree

Organization: Colorado Mountain College
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Registered Nurse Associates Degree

Organization: Colorado Northwestern Community College, Dental Hygiene Department
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Registered Nurse Associates Degree

Organization: Colorado Northwestern Community College, Nursing Department
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Registered Nurse Associates Degree

Organization: Front Range Community College
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Registered Nurse Associates Degree

Organization: Otero Junior College
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Registered Nurse Associates Degree

Organization: Pikes Peak Community College
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Registered Nurse Associates Degree

Organization: Pueblo Community College, School of Nursing
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Registered Nurse Associates Degree

Organization: Shalom Park
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Registered Nurse Associates Degree

Organization: Trinidad State Junior College-Valley
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Registered Nurse Associates Degree

Organization: University of Colorado Denver, Child Health Associate/Physician Assistant Program
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Registered Nurse Bachelors Degree

Organization: Adams State College
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Registered Nurse Bachelors Degree

Organization: Colorado Northwestern Community College, Dental Hygiene Department
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Registered Nurse Bachelors Degree

Organization: Colorado State University-Pueblo, Department of Nursing
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Registered Nurse Bachelors Degree

Organization: Mesa State College
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Registered Nurse Bachelors Degree

Organization: Metropolitan State College of Denver
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Registered Nurse Bachelors Degree

Organization: Pikes Peak Community College
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Registered Nurse Bachelors Degree

Organization: Regis University
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Registered Nurse Bachelors Degree

Organization: University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Registered Nurse Bachelors Degree

Organization: University of Colorado Denver, College of Nursing
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Registered Nurse Bachelors Degree

Organization: University of Northern Colorado
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Registered Nurse Bachelors Degree

Organization: University of Phoenix, Department of Nursing
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Registered Nurse Bachelors Degree

Organization: University of Phoenix, Psychology Program
Type: Educational Program

Nurse Registered Nurse Masters Degree

Organization: Pikes Peak Community College
Type: Educational Program

Occupational Therapist Masters Degree

Organization: Colorado State University-Fort Collins, Department of Occupational Therapy
Type: Educational Program

Online Job Opportunities Bank JOB

Organization: Community Health Association of Mountain/Plains States
Type: Workforce Initiative
Searchable resource providing detailed descriptions about open clinical and nonclinical positions at community, migrant and homeless health centers and primary care associations throughout Region VIII. Goals are to provide convenient and effective advertising of available positions and track recruitment efforts and fill rates throughout the region. JOB is connected to additional resources targeted at jobseekers and is designed to introduce them to the benefits of working within Region VIII and for these centers and then logically provide an avenue for exploring actual job opportunities. Posting is free to qualified organizations, and positions are advertised electronically and at job fairs for students in various disciplines throughout the year.

Patient Centered Medical Home Residency Project

Organization: Commission on Family Medicine
Type: Workforce Initiative
The nine family medicine residencies in the State are collaborating in transforming thier curricula and practices into a Patient Centered Medical Home from 12/08 through 12/11.

Pharmacist Doctoral Degree

Organization: Regis University
Type: Educational Program

Physical Therapist Doctoral Degree

Organization: Regis University
Type: Educational Program

Physical Therapist Doctoral Degree

Organization: University of Colorado Denver, School of Medicine, Physical Therapy Program
Type: Educational Program

Physician Assistant Certificate

Organization: Red Rocks Community College
Type: Educational Program

Physician Assistant Masters Degree

Organization: University of Colorado Denver, Child Health Associate/Physician Assistant Program
Type: Educational Program

Physician Loan Repayment Program

Organization: Colorado Health Foundation
Type: Workforce Initiative
The Colorado Health Foundation’s Physician Loan Repayment Program, developed with Colorado Community Health Network (CCHN) and the Colorado Rural Health Center (CRHC), provides an incentive for physicians to practice in certain rural and urban underserved sites across Colorado. The Physician Loan Repayment Program provides up to $50,000/year for three years for use in repaying the physician’s educational loans. The physician must agree to practice at a qualified rural or urban underserved Colorado site for three years.

Professional Student Exchange Program

Organization: Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education
Type: Workforce Initiative

Psychologist Doctoral Degree

Organization: Colorado State University-Fort Collins, Department of Psychology
Type: Educational Program

Psychologist Doctoral Degree

Organization: University of Denver, Graduate School of Professional Psychology
Type: Educational Program

Psychologist Masters Degree

Organization: Red Rocks Community College
Type: Educational Program

Recruitment of Medical Students to Train in Colorado as Family Physicians

Organization: Commission on Family Medicine
Type: Workforce Initiative

Region VIII Health Center Salary Benefits Turnover and Vacancy Survey

Organization: Community Health Association of Mountain/Plains States
Type: Workforce Initiative
Survey conducted every two years by the Community Health Association of Mountain/Plains States (CHAMPS) and the state-based primary care associations in Region VIII. The survey collects health center salary and benefits data for more than 80 clinical and non-clinical positions as well as recruitment, retention, turnover and vacancy information.

Required Rural Underserved Rotation

Organization: Commission on Family Medicine
Type: Workforce Initiative

Respiratory Therapist Certificate

Organization: Colorado Mountain College
Type: Educational Program

Retention of graduates in Colorado especially in rural and underserved areas

Organization: Commission on Family Medicine
Type: Workforce Initiative

Rural Track

Organization: University of Colorado Denver, School of Medicine: Rural Track
Type: Workforce Initiative
The Rural Track is designed to identify students interested in rural practice and to facilitate their admission to the School of Medicine. After admission, it provides them with, mentorship, additional knowledge, broad skills and rural socialization experiences to support their learning about and interest in rural medicine. This is a longitudinal curriulum throughout the 4 years of medical school and is in addition to the regular curriculum.

Rural Training Track

Organization: Commission on Family Medicine
Type: Workforce Initiative
Devedloping a rural training track at Valley-Wide for two residents per year.

Scholarships for Nursing and Emergency Medical Technician Students

Organization: Delta County Memorial Hospital Foundation
Type: Workforce Initiative
Through fund raising efforts, these organizations donate money for scholarships to the Foundation.

Shortage Designation Program

Organization: Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment: Primary Care Office
Type: Workforce Initiative
1) establishes, through federal criteria, that a shortage of primary medical, dental, or behavioral health providers exists 2) Creates federal designation of areas to increase public insurance remuneration and increase workforce

Social Worker Bachelors Degree

Organization: Colorado State University-Fort Collins, School of Social Work
Type: Educational Program

Social Worker Bachelors Degree

Organization: Colorado State University-Pueblo, Department of Social Work
Type: Educational Program

Social Worker Doctoral Degree

Organization: Community College of Denver-Lowry
Type: Educational Program

Social Worker Masters Degree

Organization: University of Denver, Graduate School of Social Work
Type: Educational Program

Student Internships and Career Shadowing

Organization: Western Colorado Area Health Education Center
Type: Workforce Initiative

Summer Health Careers Institute

Organization: Colorado Area Health Education Center System
Type: Workforce Initiative

The Colorado Health Foundations Physician Loan Repayment Program

Organization: Colorado Rural Health Center
Type: Workforce Initiative
This is a loan repayment program for IM, FP, PED, and OB/GYN providers. In exchange for a 3 year committment in a rural, or urban safety-net, clinic the provider receives $150,000 in loan repayment.

Undergraduate Pre Health Program

Organization: University of Colorado Denver - Anschutz Medical Campus - Office of Diversity
Type: Workforce Initiative
The Office of Diversity and Inclusion received a grant to start the program from the Office of Health Disparities and have now partnered with Kaiser Permanente Diversity Development Department to provide an Undergraduate Pre-health Program (UPP) that will be similar to the current Pre-Collegiate Development Program for high school, first generation and/or ethnic minority students.

Urban School School of Medicine

Organization: University of Colorado Denver - Anschutz Medical Campus - Office of Diversity
Type: Workforce Initiative

Western Regional Graduate Program

Organization: Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education
Type: Workforce Initiative

Workforce Connect

Organization: Adams County Education Consortium
Type: Workforce Initiative
This program enables educators at all levels to visit multiple industry locations to learn about industry trends, skills needed for employment, application of academic principles in real work settings and pending workforce needs.

Young Social Worker Ad hoc Committee

Organization: National Association of Social Workers, Colorado Chapter
Type: Workforce Initiative
The initiative works to address the concerns and increase the involvement of new professionals in social work.