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Tool Kit 1: Health Care Workforce Shortage
Over the next few decades, America faces a growing shortage of health care professionals. By 2010, demand for registered nurses is projected to rise by 15 percent, while demand for respiratory therapists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, physician's assistants and a wide range of technologists will grow by 50 percent or more. By 2020, demand could easily double. On the supply side, health professionals will be retiring at increasing rates while enrollment in many professional training programs remains flat. Unless these trends are changed, by 2020, the United States will be short 800,000 registered nurses, or 29 percent of the total required. This backgrounder outlines factors driving demand, issues in the current workforce, and opportunities for expanding the workforce to head off the shortage.
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> Fact Sheet
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Tool Kit 2: The Uninsured
Every year, the number of Americans without health insurance grows. The latest figures from the U.S. Bureau of the Census show the ranks of the uninsured have grown to 45 million nationally. About 1.2 million live in the Chicago metropolitan area.
Hospitals take the lead role in caring for this large and growing group. Nationally, hospitals provide about $21 billion in uncompensated care every
year, most of it going to uninsured patients, according to the American Hospital
Association.
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> Fact Sheet
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> Glossary of Terms
Tool Kit 3: Patient Safety
Keeping patients safe has always been a key hospital mission. Making
sure patients receive the care they need while guarding against infections
or other injuries is standard procedure at America’s hospitals.
Safety is literally designed into hospital care.
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information
> Fact Sheet
> Links
> Glossary of Terms
For more information or for copies of the toolkits, contact Heidi Diedrich, director of public affairs, at 312-906-6142 or hdiedric@mchc.com.
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Tool Kit 1: Health Care Workforce Shortage
Background Information
Fact Sheet
Links
Tool Kit 2: The Uninsured
Background Information
Fact Sheet
Links
Glossary of Terms
Tool Kit 3: Patient Safety
Background Information
Fact Sheet
Links
Glossary of Terms
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