2011 Building Michigan's Healthcare Workforce Award

The Michigan Health Council created the Building Michigan's Healthcare Workforce Award to recognize Michigan’s healthcare organizations and educators who are designing and implementing creative approaches to recruit and retain a skilled and diverse healthcare workforce in Michigan. The award recognizes innovative programs in six areas:

• Healthcare Workforce Recruitment
• Health Care Workforce Retention
• Regional Collaboration
• Education and Training
• Cultural Competency and Diversity
• HOSA Trailblazer Award
  

2011 Highlights:

2011 Award Recipients

For Recruitment:

Allegiance Health – Provider Retention Program - Application Submission
Each new provider at Allegiance Health is placed in a comprehensive integrated three year retention program that addresses professional, personal and social integration. In order to track the progress of a new provider over the three year period, certain qualitative review intervals have been incorporated to enhance strategic data collection. Collaborative efforts with the Jackson County Medical Society and the Jackson County Medical Society’s Spousal Alliance add value to the entire integration and retention of a provider within the Jackson community.
 

Lakeland HealthCare - Electronic Health Record - Application Submission
Lakeland HealthCare, located in Southwest Michigan, developed a program to recruit over 60 associates in a two week timeframe. This recruitment effort was part of the overall strategy for the Electronic Health Record implementation. The EHR recruitment blitz is most notable as the recruitment effort involved interviewing 118 candidates within a three day period. Approximately 60 candidates were selected for positions as a result of this Open House recruitment approach.

For Retention:

University of Michigan Health System – Return to Work Program - Application Submission
The University of Michigan Health System has been piloting a Return to Work (RTW) Program that focuses on providing transitional RTW placements for ill or injured employees with medical restrictions, creating RTW champions to act as advisors and liaisons, and fostering partnerships between Human Resources, Risk Management, and the departments for a coordinated consistent approach to return to work. This 2-year program is comprised of two areas and a RTW Coordinator. Development of strategies and deliverables were pilot area specific to create a self-sustainable program. Results to date show an average of up to 94% of employees in transitional assignment per quarter, an increase of 45% from baseline.

Northern Michigan Regional Hospital - DAISY Award Program; Meaningful Recognition - Application Submission
In 2009 the RN turnover rate at Northern Michigan Regional Hospital was 9.90% slightly above the Healthcare Advisory Board 2009 median of 9.8%. In the spring of 2009 NMRH became a hospital partner with the DAISY Foundation to increase meaningful recognition of nurses in the organization. The goal of the DAISY Foundation is to ensure that nurses know how deserving they are of our society's profound respect for the education, training, brainpower, and skill they put into their work, and especially for the caring with which they deliver their care.

For Regional Collaboration:

MidMichigan Health – Nursing Partnership - Application Submission
As a recipient of grant funding for the Michigan Foundations Underwriting Nursing Development (FUND) project from the RWJF, in a regional collaborative effort, we were able to contribute to the success of adding 13 Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) prepared registered nurses (RN’s) to the region. In addition, we are in our second cohort of MidMichigan Health employees attending Ferris State University’s RN to BSN program which thus far has contributed an additional 25 plus baccalaureate prepared RN’s.

For Education and Training:

Henry Ford Health System - Advanced Leadership Academy - Application Submission
Launched in September 2010, the Advanced Leadership Academy is a 15-month, bi-annual program which builds on six core competencies identified by Henry Ford Health System (HFHS) senior leadership as critical for future success as an executive within the health system which are in addition to HFHS Leadership core competencies. Currently, there are 27 participants taking part in this inaugural cohort.

Marquette General Health System - Application Submission
Marquette General Health System (MGHS) is nestled in the center of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (U.P.). The U.P. is surrounded by three of the Great Lakes and is comprised of fifteen rural counties scattered across 16,600 square miles of one of the northernmost sections of the Midwest. The geographical isolation, growing elderly population, transportation challenges, harsh winter climate and the innovativeness of regional health care leaders has provided the ideal setting for the deployment of the Upper Peninsula Telehealth Network (UPTN).  What started in 1994 as a small effort to provide distance learning to physicians at five initial sites, has led to a sophisticated 46-site network that provides over 8,000 annual connections. The 46 sites include 10 Critical Access Hospitals, 4 community hospitals, a regional referral center, a tribal health center, a health care network, a health plan, a summer camp for handicap children, and several medical clinics.

For Cultural Competency and Diversity:

Beaumont Hospital - Application Submission
Beaumont recognized the critical need to ensure that our medical students gain an understanding of and respect for the diverse cultural and spiritual needs of the patients they will be serving in order to ensure the delivery of the safest, highest quality, patient outcomes through compassionate and skilled care. Internally, a committee to support the medical schools’ “Art and Practice of Medicine” course was formed. A sub-committee was charged with specifically creating course content through dialogue and simulated interactive modules that will ensure that medical students gain insight beneficial to caring for patients of diverse cultural, religious, ethnic, racial and language backgrounds and experiences.

Statewide Campus System - Michigan State University – College of Osteopathic Medicine - Application Submission
The Statewide Campus System (SCS) is an educational consortium of 42 Michigan hospitals with 1,530 interns, residents, and fellows. Last spring, the Statewide Campus System (SCS) assessed the need for an Introductory Medical Language course. Some 900 of the 1,530 SCS trainees were queried on the need for either a Spanish or Arabic course. Responses indicated a high degree of interest for a medical Spanish course inclusive of cultural competencies. The SCS developed a free, ten-week, Introductory Medical Spanish course that was delivered before a live audience and also broadcast via computer conferencing. Some 138 persons signed up and 78 registrants completed the examination that included cultural competency and linguistic knowledge.
 

Previous Award Recipients

2010

For Regional Collaboration - Greater Flint Health Coalition
For Education and Training - McLaren Health Care Corporation
For Education and Training - Northern Michigan University
For Cultural Competency & Diversity - Oakwood Health System
For Retention - Oakwood Health System
For Retention - University of Michigan Health System
For Retention - Children's Hospital of Michigan
For Recruitment - Saint Joseph Mercy Health System
HOSA Trailblazer Award - Bay Arenac ISD Career Center

The 2010 Building Michigan's Healthcare Workforce Awards were Announced at the Michigan Health Council Annual Meeting on November 9, 2010.

MHC 2010 Awards Powerpoint Presentation
Photos from the 2010 MHC Annual Awards Ceremony

2009

For Regional Collaboration - Henry Ford Health System, Henry Ford Community College & Dearborn Public Schools for the Henry Ford Early College project.

For Recruitment - Northern Michigan Regional Hospital for developing a comprehensive physician recruitment program that addressed identifying patient needs with the intention of creating diversity within the medical staff.  From 2004-2009, 59 new medical providers were recruited to the Petoskey community.

For Workforce Retention - Oakwood Healthcare, Inc. for nurse retention efforts and also Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation and Michigan State University College of Nursing for their Nursing for Life: RN Career Transition Program extend the lifespan of a nursing career by providing experienced nurses who may leave or retire from active nursing, with an educational program to prepare them for nursing roles in community settings.

For Education and Training  - Beaumont Hospitals for their New Leaders program and Michigan State University – College of Osteopathic Medicine for their Statewide Campus System. 

For Cultural Competency & Diversity -  Beaumont Hospitals and St. Joseph Mercy Health System.

MHC Building Michigan's Health Care Workforce 2009

Photos from Building Michigan's Health Care Workforce Awards Ceremony

2008

The 2008 award recognized innovative programs in four areas: Healthcare Workforce Recruitment; Health Care Workforce Retention; Regional Collaboration; and Education and Training.

2008 Building Michigan’s Healthcare Workforce Award for Regional Collaboration

SE Michigan Healthcare Human Resources Executive Council: Michigan Health and Hospital Association, Beaumont Hospitals, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health System, Oakwood Healthcare, Inc., St. John Health, and Trinity Health

2008 Building Michigan’s Healthcare Workforce Award for Workforce Recruitment

Oakwood Healthcare, Inc.
Workforce Recruitment
Nursing Information Book
Health Career Explorer's Program
Nurse for a Day

2008 Building Michigan’s Healthcare Workforce Award for Workforce Retention

Oaklawn Hospital Nurse Retention Program

University of Michigan Health System
Workforce Retention
Nurse Week
Nursing Flyer
Article

2008 Building Michigan’s Healthcare Workforce Award for Education and Training

Henry Ford Community College and Henry Ford Hospital Partnership

Capital Area Healthcare Education Partnership

Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine

Click here for a Video from 2008 Annual Meeting