California

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California Community College
Economic
Development Network
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Health Care Delivery

• North Far North - Butte College
• Interior Bay Region-City College of San Francisco
• Central - Hartnell College
• Bay Area - Mission College
• Los Angeles - Mt. San Antonio College
• Orange Co. - Saddleback College
• Southcoast - Santa Barbara City College
• San Diego/Imperial - Southwestern College

Lead College Sacramento City College Los Rios
CCD James L. Comins R.N.,M.S Initiative Director
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HEALTH CARE INITIATIVES MISSION

Advancement of Californias health care
industry through quality education and services.
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Statewide Health Occupations Advisory Committee
EDgtNET
STWHOAC
VATEA (Carl Perkins)
RHORC Butte
RHORC City College S.F.
RHORC Hartnell
RHORC Southwestern
Health Initiative
RHORC Mission
RHORC Santa Barbara
RHORC Saddleback
RHORC Mt. San Antonio
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Communication Flow Chart
Statewide Health Occupations Advisory Committee
RHORCs N/FNorth Bay Area Central Interior Bay LA
Co. Orange Co. San Diego/Imperial South Coast
Cal Comm. Colleges Health Occupation Programs VATE
A Chancellors Office
EDgtNET Health Care Initiative
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Statewide Health Occupations Advisory Committee

• Advice to Health Initiative
• 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

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Statewide Health Occupations Advisory Committee

• VATEA (Carl Perkins)
• Give advice to health occupations programs
  regarding statewide trends in health care
• Forecasting need for new programs
• Heads ups on expanding or contracting demand for
  workers
• Changes in required worker skill sets
• Suggestions for new or revised curricula
• Feedback on quality of graduates in health care

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Health Occupations Trends

• Advanced Technology
• Health Office Information Technology
• Increased Medical Technology
• Changing Demographics
• Increasing age and diversity of population
• Increasing consumer sophistication
• New Health Care Business Practices
• Government regs
• Cost cutting multi-skilling, team based
  approach to care
• Alternative therapies
• Public/Private partnerships
• New types of Physician Practice management firms

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Important Future Skills

• Computer skills
• Written/Verbal skills
• Organizational skills
• Project/Multiple Priority Management
• Flexibility
• Team

• Multi-skill/cross training
• Dependability
• Efficiency
• Multi-lingualism
• CPR Training

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Recommended Taskforces

• Enhanced Industry and Education Technology
• Growing Senior and Multicultural Population
• Employer-focused Skills Training
• Community Health Services
• Nursing Specialty Training
• Recruiting

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Response to Identified Need Specialty Nurses
Critical Care Curriculum
STWHOAC Id need for CCNs
Orange Co RHORC partners with hospitals to
deliver course using ETP funds.
Orange Co RHORC convenes Curriculum Committee
NFNorth Orange Co. RHORCs DACUM
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North/Far North RHORC - Butte CollegeLinda Zorn

• Conducted DACUM which served as basis of Critical
  Care Curriculum.
• Providing a Preceptor Training Inservice Program
  in May via videoconference.
• Developing a Health Occupations Awareness Program
  for community college counselors to use in
  recruiting efforts.
• Conducting Critical Thinking Skills workshop at
  Enloe Hospital in April.
• Developed Internet based PALS and ACLS continuing
  education program for Paramedics.

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Bay Area RHORC-Mission CollegeDee Dee Bicocca

• Working with Hospital Council on developing
  recruiting programs for health care workers.
• Collaborating with Hewlett-Packard on
  development of telementoring program linking
  Health Academy students with business partners.
• Exploring need for Renal Dialysis Technicians and
  need for curriculum development for Renal
  Dialysis Technicians.
• Mission College has Community Ed Pharmacy
  Technician Program.

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Central RHORC - Hartnell CollegeColly Tettelbach

• Developed online Medical Lab Technician program
  and coordinated its incorporation into the Health
  Care Division at Hartnell.
• Received Industry Driven Collaborative for
  Critical Care Nursing.
• Utilizing new Critical Care Curriculum developed
  by Joanne Gray to start Critical Care Nursing
  program at Hartnell.
• Exploring possibility of exporting MLT Program to
  San Francisco with Jose Ramon Fernandez-Pena.

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Interior Bay RHORC - City Coll. of San
FranciscoJose Ramon Fernandez-Pena

• Developed and coordinates Community Health Worker
  program, placing graduates in Community Health
  Clinics throughout San Francisco.
• Students may articulate with Health Education
  major at San Francisco State.
• Received 200,000 grant to disseminate Health
  Care Interpreter curriculum to partnering
  community college programs in region and the
  State.
• Working with Bonnie Adams to develop
  International Health Care Workers Assistance
  Centers in San Francisco and Los Angeles with
  CO-PHYLA.

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LA RHORC - Mt. San Antonio CollegeBonnie Adams

• Developed Pediatric Critical Care curriculum in
  conjunction with Joanne Gray for Children's
  Hospital of LA.
• Developed Nursing Skills update for Psychiatric
  Techs in State Hospitals-trained 2100 (75,000
  need program in State).
• Working in collaboration with Jose Ramon
  Fernandez-Pena to develop and implement
  International Health Care Workers Assistance
  Centers in LA and San Francisco.
• Applying for JDIC Grant to develop Pediatric
  Nurse Specialty with Childrens LA,
  Kaiser,Childrens Oakland, Childrens San Diego.

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Orange Co. RHORC - Saddleback CollegeJoanne Gray

• Developed a Critical Care Curriculum for
  Registered Nurses.
• DACUM Process job analysis conducted in
  Sacramento by Linda Zorn and Joanne Gray.
• Curriculum piloted with 21 nurses in Orange
  County with ETP funding.
• Being offered for credit at Saddleback
• Exported to Hartnell with Industry Driven
  Collaborative support by Colly Tettlelbach.
• Developing online database system for clinical
  placement for Orange County Health Ed Consortia.

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San Diego/Imperial RHORC -Southwestern
CollegeMarlies Vandenberg

• Developed OR Tech Program delivered through
  asynchronous video-conferencing.
• In negotiations with Vancouver hospital employer
  to beam OR Tech program there.
• Working on developing a LVN-RN Step Up program
  via video-conferencing with San Diego Kaiser
  simultaneously offered to Ridgeview Community
  College in Cero Coso CCD.

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Southcoast RHORC - Santa Barbara City
CollegeMarsha Roberson

• Developed Acute Care Nurse Assistant Curriculum.
• Coordinating planning for Paramedic programs in
  region.
• Developed CNA Evaluation tool to be used across
  South Coast Region for consistent performance
  evaluation of CNAs.
• Conducting Internet Based/Distance Education
  Survey for nurses.
• Developed and piloted Internet Based/Distance Ed
  Home Health Care course.