Health Care Delivery Initiative California Community College Economic & Workforce Development

Economic and Workforce Development Program Advisory Structure Board of Governors Chancellor’s Office Economic Development Program Executive Committee Economic Development Program Executive Committee Ten Regional Consortia Ten Regional Consortia Ten Statewide Strategic Priority Committees Ten Statewide Strategic Priority Committees Lead College for Each Region Lead College for Each Region Lead College for Each Strategic Priority Lead College for Each Strategic Priority Statewide Coordination Network Statewide Coordination Network

The Mission To promote the advancement of California’s healthcare delivery and economic growth through quality education and services focusing on workforce development and continuous workforce improvement.

North/Far North RHORC - Butte College, Chico Health Initiative Office -Sacramento City College - Sacramento Bay Area RHORC-Mission College, Santa Clara Interior Bay RHORC - City College of San Francisco Central RHORC-Hartnell College, Salinas South Coast RHORC - Santa Barbara City College LA County RHORC - Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut Orange County RHORC – Golden West College, Huntington Beach San Diego/Imperial RHORC - Grossmont College, El Cajon EWP Health Care Initiative RHORC’s

Spring 2007 Health Initiative Newsletter

Advice to Health Initiative/RHORC's –Business trends –New workers/worker updates and retraining –Needed special services, curriculum design, distance ed, computer-based training, both FTE generating and Contract Ed –New worker skill sets –Getting the word out to business & industry regarding community colleges programs and services –Meetings held three times a year. –Minutes on website Statewide Health Occupations Advisory Committee (SWHOAC)

VTEA Funded Health Care Grant Statewide collaborative with RHORC’s as partners Supplements work of Initiative Provides funding for implementation of Statewide projects and regional models to improve health care Project Planning done at Fall Retreat and assigned as appropriate to RHORC’s Statewide Discipline-Specific Industry Regional Collaborative Grant

VTEA Funded Health Care Grant Last year’s accomplishments –Funds 3C-NAC Committee Approved vendors for nurse aptitude testing Set cut scores Set up multi-criterion enrollment model Planning a NGETC pathway Working on ADN/BSN programs Statewide Discipline-Specific Industry Regional Collaborative Grant

VTEA Funded Health Care Grant Last year’s accomplishments –Variety of Staff Development Conferences –Simulation Conferences Mission College Stockton Fresno LA Region –Southern Cal Faculty Institute –Asilomar Northern ADN Conference –Southern ADN Conference Statewide Discipline-Specific Industry Regional Collaborative Grant

VTEA Funded Health Care Grant Last year’s accomplishments –Psychiatric Technician Educators data-driven website –Completion of Interactive CD-ROM Medical Assisting Model Curriculum –Update of CNA Curriculum to CD-ROM –Marketing brochures for Allied Health Occupations. Statewide Discipline-Specific Industry Regional Collaborative Grant

VTEA Funded Health Care Grant This year’s Plan –Staff Development COADN Conf North COADN Conf South Asilomar Nursing Faculty Conf Faculty Institute Regional Student Success Advisor Conf. Rad Tech Educator Conf –Men in Nursing Conference –Adjunct Faculty Website Registry Conf (8 Regions) –ADN Director Orientation Project Statewide Discipline-Specific Industry Regional Collaborative Grant

VTEA Funded Health Care Grant This year’s Plan –3C-NAC Statistician –C.N.A. Curriculum Update –Clinical Skills Podcasting Demo Project –MLT Curriculum Update to Interactive –CDLA Region Simulation Collaborative Project –Website Support –Adjunct Faculty Website – Statewide Health Portal Partnership Website (with DOL) –Health Occupations Marketing Brochures –Duplication and Distribution of RHORC CD ROM Products Statewide Discipline-Specific Industry Regional Collaborative Grant

EWD Funded Health Care Grants Supplemental to RHORC’s -- spontaneous ideas through a vetting process involving the Initiative, the Chancellor’s Office and the RHORC’s hosting the HUBS North HUB at Butte South RHORC at Santa Barbara North/South EWD Hubs

Student Success Kit

For a complimentary copy, please contact: Linda Zorn, RHORC Director North/Far North RHORC Butte College

Compiled RHORC Products

Nursing and Allied Health Math Tutorial Basic Math Fractions Decimals Apothecary’s system Basic Algebra (Ratio & Proportion) Word Problems All applied to Math for Health

Welcome Back Centers (International Healthcare Workers Assistance Center) 1400 Validated their Credentials 747 Passed Licensing Exams 276 Obtained License in their Original Professions 444 Entered New Careers in Health 847 Obtained New Employment in the Health Sector 55 MD’s Accepted into Residency Programs

The Regional Health Occupations Resource Centers Jim Comins RN, MSN Initiative Director for Health Care Delivery

North/Far North RHORC - Butte College Linda Zorn, RHORC Director Resources for California Community College Associate Degree Nursing Programs – a 10 CD set  1. ASSOCIATE DEGREE NURSING (RN) CURRICULUM MODEL- 3 CD ’ s  2. National Council Licensure Examination – RN Preparation Program (NCLEX) - 1 CD  3. Student Success Kit – 2 CD ’ s  4. Preceptor Curriculum – 1 CD  5. Strategies for Teaching Clinical Nursing – 1 CD  6. Faculty Recruitment Kit – 2 CD ’ s Nursing and Allied Health Math Tutorial CD  A self-paced course that individuals can utilize in preparation for entry into allied health programs at California Community Colleges.  Consists of Five Chapters. Partnership with the California Institute for Mental Health  DACUM Job Analyses  Pacific Clinics Career Pathway Project  Mental Health Services Act Workforce Education and Training Statewide Advisory Group

Interior Bay RHORC – City College of San Francisco Janey Skinner, RHORC Director Radiologic Technology & Sonography Clinical Instructors Workshop:  Presentations by nationally-recognized sonography educators are scheduled for Santa Barbara and San Francisco this spring. Immigrant Nurse Re-entry Project (Alameda County):  RHORC and Welcome Back provided technical assistance and support to a collaborative of Alameda County Medical Center (and others) with Chabot College.  Produced a detailed plan to provide training and case management to immigrant nurses re-entering the health workforce.  With JVS as the lead agency, this collaborative is currently seeking additional funding. Community Health Worker (CHW)  First college-credit training program for CHW’s in the country  Developed with RHORC support, as well as support from two FIPSE grants  2006, RHORC, CCSF (CHW program) and Berkeley City College received a JDIF grant to expand offerings to incumbent community health workers and CalWORKs participants – partnering with local employers.

Bay Area RHORC - Mission College Matthew Grayson Matthew Grayson, RHORC Director Health Prerequisite Courses:  Brokered partnership-North Valley Workforce Improvement Board (NOVA), and Bay Area Workforce Collaborative Fund (BAWFC) to add 17 additional courses in Nutrition, Anatomy, Physiology, and Microbiology  Involved eight different community colleges  Served over 450 students, June 2005 to July Psychiatric Technician Curriculum Model Project  Acquisition of writers for project has been a challenge due to busy faculty, salary rates, and interest.  Developmentally Disabled Semester Units assigned to a writer in January.  Estimated project completion date of June Health ESL Project  Final preparation for production of CD being implemented.  Estimated product availability date of March IV Therapy Blood Withdrawal Course for LVN  Creating distant education, self-paced, self-learning tool for 27 hours of lecture portion of course.  27 Student completed training in January Survey of Health Programs Production and Projected Need in Community Colleges Planning spring Faculty Development workshop on Simulation

Central RHORC - Hartnell College Valerie Fisher, RHORC Director Men in Nursing Project: Monterey Peninsula College School of Nursing  Began fall of 2007 to address the issues of male nursing student’s attrition rates.  Provides monthly support groups & mentorships for male nursing students.  For fall of 2008, MPC School of Nursing has accepted 24 men into the class –48% of the 50 students accepted! (Usually only 13%)  Sponsoring “Men in Nursing” 2 day conference to be held in Monterey on April 24 & 25. Clinical Simulation Based Training Workshops  North Central Valley – Fresno City College – April 4, 2008  South Central Valley – San Joaquin Delta College – May, 2008 Monterey Bay Geriatric Resource Center:  Regional consortium that explores and educates other healthcare providers issues of aging and management of chronic illness MBGRC  Awarded HUB funding for annual conference “Aging and Chronic Care Management of the Elderly” Monterey on March 14 & 15, Health Information Management/Medical Coding Program  Hartnell College received JDIF to develop program.  Three full co-horts of students remain in this vigorous program with the first group on scheduled to graduate in March 2008.

Southcoast RHORC –Santa Barbara City College Marsha Roberson, RHORC Director Center for Nursing Expansion (Governor’s WIA) grant project director (Carolyn Newstrom, Coordinator)  Providing NCLEX-RN Preparation Program for > 100 Repeat Test Takers.  Comprehensive preceptor training to > 300 RNs  117 additional A.D.Ns being enrolled at 5 colleges RHORC Hub Grant :Focuses on serving under-served regions of the lower half of California.  Paramedic to RN Crosswalk at Victor Valley College, from which to identify content needed in a RN to Paramedic  Monterey Bay Geriatric Resource Center [MBayRC] 3rd Annual Aging and Chronic Care Management Conference, scheduled for March, 2008  South Coast RHORC Nurse Entrepreneur Workshop, a 5-session course, scheduled to begin in February, 2008  South Coast RHORC BSN at CCC study, investigating possibilities and challenges [practically, as well as legislatively] with California Community Colleges conferring BSNs  Brochures for high need health occupations: EMT, LVN, Medical Assistant, Rad Tech, Health Information Technologist (HIT). Nurse Assistant Curricula  CNA Curriculum update complete  Acute Care CNA Completed  Curriculum available on interactive CD ROM

Orange County Inland Empire RHORC Golden West College Mary O’Connor, RHORC Director Specialty Nurse Programs  Acute shortages of Specialty & Critical Care Nurses exist  Curricula for Critical Care, Emergency, Telemetry and Pediatric Nursing were developed in  The OC/IE RHORC coordinates Critical Care and Telemetry Nursing courses for hospitals from Orange County and Long Beach areas. Employees (mostly new grads) attend the RHORC fee-based centralized course with hospitals paying salary for attendance and a clinical preceptorship.  Total nurses participating since 2003 = 1126 from 24 different facilities  Collaborated with AACN Greater OC/LB chapter to provide CCRN and PCCN certification prep courses Dec. 6-7, 2007 with 131 participants. Pediatric CCRN prep course planned for Spring. Curricula revision/development  Medical Assistant Curriculum revision in progress. Completion scheduled for spring 2008 on Interactive CD ROM. High School Outreach  Support for learning materials & field trips for Savanna High School new Medical Careers Academy  Serve as Advisor for High School Inc. (new Health Academy Valley High School, Santa Ana)

LA RHORC - Mt. San Antonio College Julie Hughes- Lederer, RHORC Director Foreign Trained Nurses Missing Coursework  Victor Valley College, Victorville hosted the Maternal Health and Psychiatric Nursing  Summer 07 enrolled 34 students--26 students in the Psychiatric nursing course with 100% pass rate--8 students in the Maternal Health nursing course with 100% pass rate  Winter 08 currently enrolled are 28 students in Psychiatric nursing  There are currently 18 on the waiting list for both courses Men in Nursing  Supporting the induction of the first chapter for California for the American Assembly for Men in Nursing.  Currently writing bylaws and seeking “Professional Male” role models and mentors to enroll in the membership  Promoting the “Men in Nursing” Conference in Monterey, CA this April The Licensed Nurse Pathway  Comprehensive tool to assist any board-eligible nurse develop an educational plan to achieve licensure.  Includes early assessments with ESL placement exams and the ATI Comprehensive Predictor for Nursing.  Increased the Registered Nurse capacity in the Los Angeles County region by over 400 licensed nurses by providing an NCLEX review course..

San Diego/Imperial RHORC–Grossmont College Ann Durham RHORC Director Designing & Building a Health Occupation Simulation Training Center  Planning a regional simulation lab and virtual hospital room.  Joint effort -Grossmont-Cuyamaca CCD &Grossmont Healthcare District. San Diego Center for Collaborative Health Care Planning  Researched a seven year healthcare workforce needs projection for San Diego.  RHORC 10 is presently collaborating with the SDWFP, health and educational organizations to find funding for a San Diego center. Accelerated RN Program (International Health Care Workers)  Targets internationally trained health care workers to acquire a degree in nursing in fourteen months. Curriculum is taught at Grossmont Community College.  Selection process is underway for a Fourth Cohort to commence Spring Successfully graduated 90 participants to date. Scripps Mercy Hospital and Grossmont Healthcare District.  Accelerated Dental Hygienist Program (International Trained Dentists)  Funding of $50,000 was received by the California Dental Foundation to develop this new initiative.  Curriculum development underway to be offered Spring MLT Program  Curriculum is being adapted to offer a first training program at Southwestern Community College in 2008.