This report analyzes and projects future needs related to California’s behavioral health workforce. This workforce is critical to meeting California’s health care needs. One in six adults suffers...
Author(s): Janet Coffman, Timothy Bates, Igor Geyn and Joanne Spetz
Highlights
Value-based payment is leading to enhanced care coordination staffing.
Sites are task shifting low-complexity care coordination to unlicensed staff.
Important care coordination education...
Author(s): Clese E. Erikson, Patricia Pittman, Alicia LaFrance, Susan A. Chapman
While it is difficult to know the true number of practicing geriatricians, the supply has been negatively affected by tightening certification requirements, relatively low income and negative return...
Author(s): Aubri Kottek, Timothy Bates and Joanne Spetz.
Demand for health care professionals with expertise in long-term care (LTC) and older populations is rising, due to projected growth in the older population and the increasing burden of chronic...
Author(s): Kristine Himmerick, Jacqueline Miller, Christopher Toretsky, Matthew Jura, Joanne Spetz
The 2016 Survey of California Registered Nurses is the tenth in a series of surveys designed to describe the population of registered nurses (RNs) licensed in California and to examine changes in...
Author(s): Joanne Spetz, Lela Chu, Matthew Jura, and Jacqueline Miller
Although communication is an essential part of the nursing process, nurses have little to no formal education in how to best communicate patient safety event (PSE) information to nursing home (NH)...
Author(s): Laura M. Wagner, Lena Driscoll, Jasmin L. Darlington, Victoria Flores, Julee Kim, Katerina Melino, Hema Doshi Patel, and Joanne Spetz
This second report in a series of three Healthforce Center reports on primary care in California, unveils projections of a statewide primary care clinician shortfall in the next 15 years, with the...
Author(s): Joanne Spetz, Janet Coffman and Igor Geyn
Children and adolescents exposed to chronic trauma have a greater risk for mental health disorders and school failure. Children and adolescents of minority racial/ethnic groups and those living in...
Author(s): Satu Larson, Susan Chapman, Joanne Spetz and Claire Brindis
The aim of this study is to examine male-female earnings of nurses in Germany. Understanding and addressing differences in earnings by gender is important because differences in pay accumulate over a...
This report summarizes the findings from a survey of general acute care hospital employers of registered nurses (RNs) in California conducted in fall 2016. This is the seventh annual survey of...
