Jared Kosin, CEO of the Alaska Hospital & Healthcare Association, explains what a $9.7 million federal grant to the Alaska Primary Care Association means for Alaska’s health care industry.
The Alaska Primary Care Association was recently awarded $9.7 million as part of the U.S. Economic Development Administration’s Good Jobs challenge grant. The funds will be used to increase the number of Alaskans who enter the health care field, with a particular focus on apprenticeships.
Jared Kosin is CEO of the Alaska Hospital & Healthcare Association. He explains what this grant means for Alaska’s health care industry, and how advocates are shifting the approach to addressing long standing workforce shortages.The workforce problem, if you will, this has been an issue for health care for years. And now with the pandemic, now that we’re kind of evolving out of it, the problem’s gotten worse.
So we have this massive workforce hole that’s been there, and that is presumably worse. The problem is, both in health care in any industry right now, you put out job postings, but no one’s applying. Where did everyone go? So we’re in a situation where we can no longer rely on people responding to our posts and coming into our facilities to work, so you have to kind of change your thinking.
And so we have to do a better job, from a health care standpoint, to engage people at a much younger age and explain what health care is. You know, we don’t need those A+ students and those people who for their whole lives, knew they’re going to be a doctor. We need those people who maybe don’t know what they want to do, and want to go explore a career field. Health care is ripe for that, because once you come in, you can go anywhere with it.Okay.
Behavioral health is something that we all know, over the last couple of years has probably taken a significant hit. People have been through trauma. And now that things have kind of settled down, I think it’s manifesting more. What we experience is a broken continuum, where we’re seeing people in crisis, who need to be paired with counselors, people trained in behavioral health therapy, but there’s none of them out there.
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