Addressing Oregon's Health Workforce Challenges and Strategies

Oregon faces challenges in its health workforce, including inadequate provider supply, training gaps, and patient complexities. Strategies involve using federal and state resources to transition the current state to a future state through workforce composition, distribution, and training enhancements.

• Oregon health
• Workforce challenges
• Provider shortage
• Training infrastructure
• Healthcare strategy

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1. A state strategy for Addressing Oregon s Health Professional Workforce

2. Oregon Demographics 2018 Census estimate for Oregon population is 4,190,713 Percent population increase from 2010: 9.4% Percent of population 65 years and older: 17.6% Percent of population White alone (non-Hispanic): 75.3% Percent of population Latino or Hispanic: 13.3% Percent of population Asian (not Caucasian): 4.8% Percent of population African American: 2.2% Percent of population American Indian and Alaskan Native: 1.8%

3. Rural/Urban Demographics

4. Health Conditions for Specific Populations

5. Oregon Workforce Challenges Inadequate supply of providers, particularly in many rural areas on urban underserved areas Inadequate supply of the right providers for the communities needing service Insufficient training infrastructure to create more within Oregon to fill gaps Residency Programs for physicians and nurses Community Colleges for lesser-trained health professionals Increasing complexity of patient conditions worsening health, co-morbidities, addiction, etc. Provider burnout, challenges with resilience, informed in part by patient health and changing conditions of the health care system Determining how to integrate care among physical, oral, behavioral health among changing science and economic factors

6. So what are we doing about all of this?

7. Using Federal Resources

8. Using State Resources

9. How can we move from a current state to a future state? Composition of Workforce Current State Future State Supply and Distribution of the Workforce Current State Future State Skills and Training of the Health Professional Workforce Current State Future State

10. Using Federal Resources

11. Key Strategies and Timetable

12. Placeholder for other issues/comments/caveats, etc.