Resources
INTERNET LINKS
Workforce Sites
This page provides a list of links to other organizations that address topics in Workforce. This list is for informational purposes only and does not necessarily indicate AHA's support or recommendation of the links being offered nor for the organizations sponsoring them.
AHA AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS
American Organization of Nurse Executives
The American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) is the national professional organization for nurses who design, facilitate, and manage care. AONE members are registered nurses who hold an organizational role in administration/management and are accountable for strategic, operational, and/or management outcomes in a health care delivery setting. Members also include RNs who are deans, directors, and faculty in graduate nursing administration programs; executive directors of ONE chapters; consultants in nursing administration/ management practice; nurses employed by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; and editors of professional nursing journals.
www.aone.org
American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration
Mission: To lead and serve its members and affiliated chapters by supporting the development of human resources practitioners, serving as a resource to them, and enhancing the role of human resource management in healthcare.
www.ashhra.org.
Financial Solutions, Inc.
Since its inception in 1979, AHA Insurance Resource has served as the American Hospital Association's endorsement arm for risk management and employee benefit products. The company built a solid foundation primarily in providing credibility- through the AHA endorsement-to life/health and property/casualty insurance products for the health care market. In response to marketplace demands, and in synchronization with AHA's core initiatives, AHA Financial Solutions is expanding its focus to include more financial services and strategic planning resources.
www.aha.org/fsi
Health Forum
The Health Forum provides communications, information, education and research products and services that advance leadership for health. These services empower health care providers, suppliers, payers and consumers with new knowledge and learning toward the advancement of organizational leadership, market leadership, clinical and medical leadership and community leadership. The Health Forum was created in the fall of 1998 through the union of The Healthcare Forum and the American Hospital Association's publishing and data and information subsidiaries.
www.healthforum.com
Health Research and Educational Trust
Since its inception, HRET has focused on the critical issues affecting health care finance, delivery, and access, as well as community health. Producing practical information and products that help health care providers, trustees, and the people they serve improve the health status of communities is a hallmark of HRET's mission. We're committed to providing information that will inform the development of new strategies to meet the challenges of a health care system undergoing major change.
HRET.org
Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development
The Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development is the premier organization for more than 3,600 healthcare professionals responsible for strategy development and implementation in a wide array of healthcare organizations. The Society is one of twelve personal membership groups affiliated with the American Hospital Association. The Society addresses the ongoing strategic, organizational and financial challenges occurring in the rapidly evolving healthcare field.
www.stratsociety.org
GOVERNMENT
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
www.ahcpr.gov
Impact of Working Conditions on Patient Safety
Bureau of Health Professions
Health Resources and Services Administration
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
www.bhpr.hrsa.gov
Bureau of Labor Statistics
U.S. Department of Labor
www.bls.gov
Census Bureau
U.S. Department of Commerce
www.census.gov
National Center for Health Workforce Information and Analysis
Health Resources and Services Administration
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/healthworkforce
UNIVERSITIES
Center for Health Workforce Studies
State University of New York at Albany
http://chws.albany.edu/
The Center for the Health Professions
University of California, San Francisco
http://futurehealth.ucsf.edu
Center for Health Workforce Studies
University of Washington
http://depts.washington.edu/wwchws
Illinois Center for Health Workforce Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago
www.uic.edu/sph/ichws
Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
www.shepscenter.unc.edu
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
www.uthscsa.edu
OTHER ORGANIZATIONS AND WEBSITES
Accrediting Commission on Education for Health Services Administration
ACEHSA is an interdisciplinary group of educational, professional, clinical, and commercial organizations devoted to accountability and quality improvement in the education of health administration professionals.
www.acehsa.org
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education
The ACCME's mission is the identification, development, and promotion of standards for quality continuing medical education (CME) utilized by physicians in their maintenance of competence and incorporation of new knowledge to improve quality medical care for patients and their communities. The ACCME fulfills its mission through a voluntary self-regulated system for accrediting CME providers and a peer-review process responsive to changes in medical education and the health care delivery system.
www.accme.org
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education is responsible for the Accreditation of post-MD medical training programs within the United States. Accreditation is accomplished through a peer review process and is based upon established standards and guidelines.
www.acgme.org
American Association of Colleges of Nursing
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is the national voice for America's baccalaureate- and higher-degree nursing education programs. AACN's educational, research, governmental advocacy, data collection, publications, and other programs work to establish quality standards for bachelor's- and graduate-degree nursing education, assist deans and directors to implement those standards, influence the nursing profession to improve health care, and promote public support of baccalaureate and graduate education, research, and practice in nursing -- the nation's largest health care profession.
www.aacn.nche.edu
American Nurses Association
The American Nurses Association is a full-service professional organization representing the nation's 2.6 million Registered Nurses through its 54 constituent state associations and 13 organizational affiliate members. ANA advances the nursing profession by fostering high standards of nursing practice, promoting the economic and general welfare of nurses in the workplace, projecting a positive and realistic view of nursing, and by lobbying the Congress and regulatory agencies on health care issues affecting nurses and the public.
www.ana.org
Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools
The Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS) was established as a not-for-profit, immigration neutral organization with a commitment to protect the public by ensuring that nurses educated in countries other than the United States (U.S.) are eligible and qualified to meet licensure and other practice requirements in the U.S. Throughout its history, CGFNS has demonstrated its commitment to excellence and quality in the healthcare arena and to fostering equitable treatment of healthcare professionals.
http://www.cgfns.org/default.shtml
Direct Care Alliance
Founded in November 1998, the DCA's mission is to improve the quality of care for consumers through the creation of higher quality jobs and working conditions for direct-care paraprofessional workers. The DCA promotes recognition that direct-care paraprofessionals are the foundation of good care, particularly for long-term care clients.
www.directcarealliance.org
Health Workforce Information Center
The Health Workforce Information Center is a comprehensive online library with easy access to health workforce information.
www.healthworkforceinfo.org
Institute for Diversity in Health Management
The Institute for Diversity in Health Management, a nonprofit organization, collaborates with educators and health services organizations to make minority youth more aware that health services management is a viable career option. It is committed to expanding health care leadership opportunities for minorities and increasing the number of qualified minorities in positions of health services management. The institute establishes internship, residency, fellowship, and work-study programs with hospitals and health services institutions nationwide. In order to advance the careers of minority professionals, the institute has a mentoring network, provides continuing education courses, and maintains a jobs database.
http://www.diversityconnection.org/
National Consortium on Health Science & Technology Education
The National Consortium on Health Science and Technology Education is a national partnership of individuals and organizations with a vested interest in health science and technology education. Organized in 1991, its purpose is to stimulate creative and innovative leadership for ensuring a well prepared health care workforce. Primary strategies include fostering collaboration among educational agencies, the health care community, policy-making bodies, and labor. It is an incorporated, non-profit organization and has a 501 (c) (3) tax exempt status by the Internal Revenue Service.
www.nchste.org
National League for Nursing
The mission of the NLN is to advance quality nursing education that prepares the nursing workforce to meet the needs of diverse populations in an ever-changing health care environment.
www.nln.org
National Resident Matching Program
The Main Match offers PGY-1 and PGY-2 level residency training positions and the Specialty Matches offer fellowship/residency positions for subspecialty training. The 2000 Main Match placed 20,272 applicants for postgraduate medical training positions into 3,769 residency programs at 701 teaching hospitals throughout the United States. Applicants and residency programs evaluate and rank one another, and then a computerized process pairs applicants with programs based on the ranked preferences. NRMP conducts 15 Specialty Matches for 22 sub-specialties. In 2000, Specialty Matches places 1,900 applicants in 1,150 training positions.
www.nrmp.org
Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute
A health care employment development and advocacy organization, PHI is committed to improving the quality of jobs for paraprofessional healthcare workers. Through their Cooperative Healthcare Network, policy analysis, education, and advocacy, they are working to improve wages and benefits, training, and working conditions for home health aides, nursing assistants, personal care attendants and other frontline health care workers. www.paraprofessional.org
The National Clearinghouse collects, analyzes, and disseminates information concerning the health care paraprofessional workforce
The Clearinghouse provides both practice and policy-related resources necessary to enhancing the quality of jobs for direct-care workers in long-term care. www.directcareclearinghouse.org
Sigma Theta Tau
Sigma Theta Tau International, Honor Society of Nursing, is dedicated to improving the health of people worldwide through increasing the scientific base of nursing practice. Its members are nursing scholars committed to the pursuit of excellence in clinical practice, education, research and leadership. The Society believes that broadening the base of nursing knowledge through knowledge development, dissemination and use offers great promise for promoting a healthier populace.
www.nursingsociety.org
United States Immigration and Naturalization Service
The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), an agency of the Department of Justice, is responsible for enforcing the laws regulating the admission of foreign-born persons (i.e., aliens) to the United States and for administering various immigration benefits, including the naturalization of qualified applicants for U.S. citizenship.
http://uscis.gov/graphics/index.htm
- Temporary Workers [I-129 Petitions]
- Registered Nurses [H-1C Visas]
- Specialty Workers [H-1B Visas]