Resources

In this report completed by the Foundation for Healthy Communities and the New Hampshire Hospital Association, the role of OPLC and licensure in expanding and supporting New Hampshire’s healthcare workforce is explored. This includes an assessment of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in the current environment.

This Executive Summary provides an overview of the strategic plan to build and retain New Hampshire's health care workforce.

This strategic plan, intended for implementation within two years, includes 107 strategies to build and retain New Hampshire's health care workforce in four areas: pipeline, recruitment, and retention needs facing the state; critical policy and regulatory issues; data needs; and provides a mechanism for coordination and governance of workforce development efforts.

A disconnect exists between the healthcare workforce needs in New Hampshire and the limited availability of placement sites for health professional students. Using a qualitative research design, this report explores the perspectives of state-based academic institutions, community practice sites and preceptors, as well as best practices from National Area Health Education Center Organization Programs across the country. The research includes recommendations to address clinical placement challenges across disciplines.

To help inform health care workforce development planning in New Hampshire, the Endowment for Health supported a review of the workforce development plans of other states with large rural areas to understand their structure, components (i.e., areas of focus and strategies), and implementation plans. Hope Worden Kenefick, MSW, Ph.D. reviewed and summarized relevant documents available for nine states and interviewed representatives from a sub-set of the states. In 2021, the consultant conducted an additional scan to learn about progress made in the nine states and to understand the efforts of four states identified as having made significant progress on health care workforce development.

Under a NH DSRIP 115 waiver, New Hampshire's IDN's have been working to address behavioral healthcare workforce shortages. The technical conclusion of the waiver which supports the IDN work was December 2020. This report by Hope Worden Kenefick, MSW, Ph.D. summarizes the work done, what was learned and what remains incomplete.

Under a NH DSRIP 115 waiver, New Hampshire's IDN's have been working to address behavioral healthcare workforce shortages. The technical conclusion of the waiver which supports the IDN work is December 2020. Hope Worden Kenefick, MSW, Ph.D. summarizes the work done, what was learned and what remains incomplete.