Presented in this September/October E-blast Issue: Meet the new COE Director, Visit WA State Colleges and Universities for Healthcare programs, Announcements of the 2009-2010 Heet Grants awards and the 2009 Best Practice awards, Web meetings through the Center of Excellence for Allied Health.
››New Director for the Center of Excellence for Allied Health
The Allied Health Center of Excellence is pleased to introduce Janet McCann as their new director. The Center, located on the Yakima Valley Community College Campus, serves as a statewide liaison to business, industry and the state's educational systems for the purpose of creating a highly skilled and readily available health care workforce.
Janet has worked as an administrative leader and instructor in Washington State's higher education for the past seventeen years. She has been active in e-Learning initiatives, establishing educational and community partnerships, and developing best practices for serving place and time bound students.
Janet has a BA in Political Science, an MA in History and is completing her PhD in Higher Educational Leadership.
The Center of Excellence for Allied Health
PH: 509-574-6863 Email: coe@yvcc.edu
›WA State Colleges/Universities That Offer Degrees in Healthcare
America needs more health care workers. The U.S. Department of Labor predicts that healthcare will generate 3 million new wage and salary jobs between 2006 and 2016. Seven out of the 20 fastest growing occupations are health care related.
Find out which Washington Colleges / Universities offer the specific health science / allied health / healthcare professional-technical training program(s) / major(s) that you are seeking.
Listed to the right you will find the links to each of the 2-year Community/Technical colleges and the 4-year colleges/universities; when clicked you will be taken to the healthcare program or the college/university’s programs A-Z.
Resources to help you explore:
Find a Program:
http://www.workforcecollege.com/findprogram.asp
Healthcare In-demand Occupations:
››New Heet Grant Projects Awarded
The 2009 Legislature appropriated an additional $1.5 million for the 2009-11 biennium to the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC) for labor, management, and college partnerships to develop or expand and evaluate innovative training programs for incumbent hospital workers that lead to careers in nursing and other high-demand health care fields. The purpose of the funds is to build innovative programs that enhance the accessibility of college education for hospital workers, lead to increased capacity of the college system in nursing and other high demand health care fields, and bring greater diversity to the health care workforce.
For fiscal year 2009-10, $850,000 is available for new projects. In response to our request for proposals, the State Board received four application (a total of $1,008,664 in requests). Following is information on the proposal review process and funding.
The review team included two representatives from SEIU (775NW and 1199NW), two from the Washington State Hospital Association, two colleges (one east, one west/one WEC, one IC), the Workforce Board, and our Office of Adult Literacy. The team looked at each proposal to ensure it met the minimum criteria.
As a result of the review process, three new HEET grant projects have been awarded, serving students across the state in both urban and rural areas:
Bellevue College - $249,507 to train entry level hospital workers for higher paying jobs, beginning with clinical lab assistant or medical office reception training, and preparing them for more advanced positions allied health programs.
Partners - SEIU Healthcare 1199NW and Evergreen Hospital Medical Center.
Bellingham Technical College - $359,575 to help incumbent workers in a variety of hospital positions, including housekeeping and maintenance staff, dietary aides, and ward and registration clerks, start or continue high demand, high wage career pathways to become medical records, surgical, pharmacy, or radiologic technicians, nursing assistants, LPNs, RNs, billing and coding specialists, or health unit coordinators.
Partners - SEIU Healthcare 1199NW, Skagit Valley College, Whatcom Community College, Northwest Workforce Council, Northwest Alliance for Health Care Skills, St. Joseph Hospital, Skagit Valley Hospital, Island Hospital, Whidbey General Hospital, and United General Hospital.
Columbia Basin College - $212,360 to provide incumbent hospital employees direct access to nursing education.
Partners - United Staff Nurses Union and Lourdes Medical Center.
››Gov. Gregoire Announces Winners of Best Practice Awards
OLYMPIA - Gov. Chris Gregoire today announced the winners of the 2009 Workforce and Economic Development Best Practice awards. Five projects were recognized as models of success in creating jobs, building a skilled workforce and enhancing the economy in communities around the state.
"These five exceptional projects demonstrate the diversity, innovation and partnerships that are contributing to a new, stronger Washington," Gregoire said. "Each partnership is helping our state build a globally competitive economy, and a better future for working families."
The awards will be presented at the Workforce and Economic Development Conference in Spokane, Oct. 27-29, along with a Lifetime Achievement Award to David Harrison, a senior lecturer at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington.
"Throughout his career, David has been a tireless advocate for educational and employment pathways that help all of Washington's citizens move ahead and into family-wage jobs," Gregoire said. "This award pays tribute to the work David has done so well in addressing the barriers many of our citizens face, and finding new ways to solve them."
This year's Best Practice Awards recognize leadership and exemplary accomplishment in a project, program or initiative.
Some of the Winners are:
Health Careers for Youth (Seattle) This program creates a career and education pathway for low-income youth who might otherwise overlook promising careers in health care. Health Careers for Youth provides high school students with career exploration, Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) training, prerequisite coursework in nursing and allied health occupations, and work-based learning. Forty students have completed the program, with 90 percent completing CNA training and 60 percent earning an industry credential by passing the national CNA certification exam.
Rural Outreach Nursing Education (RONE) project of Lower Columbia College (Longview) The RONE project provides nursing education to areas of Washington that have limited access, helping address a critical skill shortage through classes delivered over the web. By recruiting within their community and providing the training on-site, rural communities can now grow their own nursing staffs. Rural hospitals, clinics and other outpatient facilities provide hands-on clinical experience as part of this two-year associate degree registered nurse program.
››Going Green Through Our Healthcare Web-Meeting Scene
Can't travel but still need to share ideas, exchange information or show a presentation? The Center of Excellence for Allied Health can help you with an online meeting.
Meet, demonstrate, present, and collaborate right from your own computer. Skip the back and forth emails and the time-consuming trips, you will be able to share ideas and make decisions just like you would in person even when your miles away.
Meet More, Travel Less.
Let the Center of Excellence for Allied Health help you make online virtual collaboration a part of your Allied Health/Health Sciences education or business operations.
Contact us at: coe@yvcc.edu include the subject line "Web Conferencing"
