Personal care assistants (PCAs) provide supports and services that enable older adults and individuals with disabilities to remain in their homes and community settings. State Medicaid Home and...
Author(s): Michelle Ko, Robert Newcomer, Andrew B. Bindman, Taewoon Kang, Denis Hulett, Joanne Spetz
Personal care assistants (PCAs) provide supports and services that enable older adults and individuals with disabilities to remain in their homes and community settings. State Medicaid Home and...
Author(s): Michelle Ko, Robert Newcomer, Andrew B. Bindman, Taewoon Kang, Denis Hulett, Joanne Spetz
Although the supply of nurses is likely to meet overall demand, the nature of a nurse’s job is changing dramatically. In redesigned health care systems, nurses are assuming expanded roles for a broad...
Medical assistants (MAs) are one of the fastest-growing occupations in the United States. As of 2014 there were about 585,000 MAs in the United States, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics projected...
Author(s): Susan A. Chapman, Angela Marks, Catherine Dower
A looming question for policy makers is how growing diversity of the US elderly population and greater use of home and community-based services will affect demand for long-term care workers. We used...
Author(s): Joanne Spetz, Laura Trupin, Tim Bates, Janet M. Coffman
This webinar presents findings from a recent study conducted by the Health Workforce Research Center on Long-Term Care at the University of California, San Francisco, on the job transitions of long-...
Forecasts of future supply and demand of health professionals are tools to guide policy, not a final statement about how the world will be in the future. Recent forecasts of RN supply and demand vary...
Since its launch in 2008, the Clinic Leadership Institute Emerging Leaders Program (the Program) has been at the forefront of efforts to cultivate the leadership pipeline in California’s community...
Licensed Medical Laboratory Technicians, or MLTs, are a relatively new occupation in California. In 2002, California legislation authorized the creation of the MLT job category (SB 1809) and...
Author(s): Lisel Blash, Catherine Dower, Susan A. Chapman
Leaders in medical education have increasingly called for the incorporation of cost awareness and health care value into health professions curricula. Emerging efforts have thus far focused on...
Author(s): Christopher Moriates, Daniel Dohan, Joanne Spetz, George F. Sawaya
