Industry Sectors: Health Care

Statewide Health Occupations Directory

Allied Health Regional Workforce Analysis:  Central California
The California Endowment, January 2009

Closing the Health Workforce Gap in California: The Education Imperative
The Campaign for College Opportunity, November 5, 2007
Executive Summary or Full Report

For the Health-Care Work Force, a Critical Prognosis
The United States faces a looming shortage of many types of health-care professionals, and the results will be felt acutely within the next 10 years. D.W. Rahn & S.A. Wartman, The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 2, 2007

Massachusetts Extended Care Career Ladders Initiative
The Massachusetts Extended Care Career Ladders Initiative (ECCLI) is a statewide effort that addresses nursing recruitment and retention with flexible educational opportunities and incentives.

The National Clearinghouse on the Direct Care Workforce
A national on-line library for the direct-care staffing crisis in long-term care, the Clearinghouse houses training manuals and how-to guides, and listings of associations, resources, and events.

Better Jobs Better Care
A research and demonstration program, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Atlantic Philanthropies, BJBC seeks changes in long-term care policy and practice to reduce high vacancy and turnover rates among direct care staff and improve workforce quality.

Health Workforce Solutions LLC
HWS is a research-based strategic consulting and management firm focused on health care workforce issues.

Advancing in Health and Health Care Careers—Rung by Rung
R. Klein-Collins & R. Starr
Jobs for the Future
August 2007

Jobs to Careers:  Promoting Work Based Learning for Quality Care
Jobs for the Future, Hitachi Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

What Works: Healing the Healthcare Staffing Shortage
PriceWaterhouseCoopers
July 2007

Nursing Pathways, Your Pathway to Success
Kaiser Permanente Nursing Pathways Program

Ensuring an Adequate Health Workforce: Improving State Nursing Programs
E. Hill, Legislative Analyst's Office, May 2007

Promising Practices, Promoting Diversity in California Community College Health Occupation Programs
L. Blash, E. Schiorring and G. Waldron, The Center for Student Success, March 2006

Career Ladders Pathway
Kaiser Permanente Labor Management Partnership, Career Ladder Workgroup & The Shirley Ware Education Center, September 2002, Appendix A

The Career Ladder Mapping Project
Allied Health Project on Career Ladders: Health Career Path Mapping and Worksite training Development Project
Shirley Ware Education Center SEIU, Local 250 AFL-CIO, December 2002

United Healthcare Workers West

Shirley Ware Educational Center