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Purpose
To
develop and implement a strategic plan for reducing the health
professional shortages along the US-Mexico border.
Establishing this Consortium was the first stop toward
remedying this workforce shortage.
The Consortium was developed through partnerships with the
following Health Resources and Services Administration programs:
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Center of Excellence (COE)
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Health Careers Opportunity Program (HCOP)
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Minority Faculty Fellowship Program (MFFP)
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Area Health Education Centers (AHEC)
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Health Education Training Centers (HETC)
The Division for the National Centers for
Health Workforce Information and Analysis:
The Hispanic Serving Health Professions
Schools, Inc.
Objectives
1. Assess the needs and resources related to
health professions workforce capacity, and
the diversity of HRSA-funded programs for addressing education/training
and placement along the US-Mexico border states of Arizona, California,
New Mexico, Texas (target
date-December 2001).
2. Plan and implement a US-Mexico Border
Centers of Excellence Consortium Forum
to discuss the results of the needs/resource assessment and address the
health
workforce shortage via improving coordination, collaboration, and
communication with border health entities (target date-February 2002).
3. Develop and disseminate Forum proceedings
and programmatic recommendations
to decrease health professions workforce shortages in the US-Mexico
border
states (target date-May 2002).
4. Develop and implement a dissemination plan
for the Forum proceedings to key
stakeholders in workforce capacity and diversity at the local, state,
and federal
levels (target date-August 2002).
5. Develop a strategic plan for a Center of
Excellence Border Consortium that addresses
health workforce training and education issues along the border (target
date-
August 2002). The strategic
plan will include development of a mission
Statement, goals, objectives, specific activities, administrative and
management team structure, evaluation plan, and budget.
Membership
Core members represent the four Centers of
Excellence (COE) programs in each of the border states:
* University of Arizona Health Sciences Center
School of Medicine Hispanic COE
* University of California Los Angeles School
of Medicine COE
* University of New Mexico School of Medicine
Hispanic & Native American COE
* Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center,
El Paso Hispanic COE
* University of Texas Health Science Center,
San Antonio Medical Hispanic COE
* University of Texas Medical Branch at
Galveston School of Medicine, Hispanic COE
* US Health Resources and Services
Administration Division of Health Careers Diversity and Development
Defining
the Geographic, Population, Workforce Target Area
Each
member first completed a needs assessment of clinical
services and workforce training capacity. Each state determined
which counties would be included in their assessment.
Once
the geographic areas were defined, demographic and health status
profiles were collected, including information on age, gender,
marital status, ethnic/race distributions and health status.
Once
the population was defined, the intent was to determine the ideal
health profession workforce necessary to provide quality health
care. This ideal could then be compared with the actual health
professions workforce to determine the gap or need. The type of
research necessary to compile this data was beyond the scope of work
for the Consortium, so members used the HRSA-designated Medically
Underserved Area state statistics.
Needs/Resource
Matrix
Once
the workforce need was defined, members researched the training
education needs and current resources available to close the gap.
Each state produced a document relative to their particular health
status:
New
Mexico Health Workforce Capacity Needs Assessment
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