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Health
Workforce Diversity Activities Across the State
- The
Health Care Personnel Shortage Task Force's final report
- Washington
Health Foundation is offering several programs focused on health
disparities and cultural competency.
- The Workforce Training and Education Coordinating
Board added a diversity component to efforts to address health career
shortages, described in
"The
Health Care Labor Shortage”.
- The Department of Health created
Project
HOPE (http://www.doh.wa.gov/hsqa/ocrh/R&R/HOPE1.htm), a program that provides high school students with paid
internships at local health facilities, with the Area Health Education
Centers.
- The
Department
of Health - Health Systems and Quality Assurance Division
incorporated diversity into its vision statement.
- Tacoma–Pierce County Public Health Department
launched
HOPP,
a job-shadowing program, in partnership with Lincoln High School.
- The Yakima Valley Farm Worker’s Clinic
ConneX
program connects students with health careers, with the goal of
increasing the number of diverse health professionals practicing in
underserved areas.
- The Washington Dental Service Foundation focused
scholarship programs on students of color and is exploring ways to
fund student recruitment and retention program.
- The Washington Health Foundation initiated a health
disparities program and the Group Health Foundation is exploring
making health disparities a priority.
- A report on the personnel crisis facing Washington’s
hospitals, "Who
Will Care For You?”, issued by the Washington State Hospital
Association and Association of Washington Public Hospital Districts,
spoke to the importance of increasing diversity and acknowledged the
Board’s work.
- Creators of Bridging the Gap: Cross Cultural Education
in Public Health, a program that provided immigrant middle and high
school students in Seattle with exposure to public health careers,
will work with the Health Workforce Diversity Network to promote the
program.
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