Providers and Workforce

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Iowa CareGivers

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Phone: 515-223-2805

Strategy Name: Iowa CareGivers: "Go To Place" for those in Direct Care

Goal or Desired Outcome: Ensure an adequate supply of well-prepared, well-compensated, informed and empowered direct care workers who are equipped to meet the care and support needs of all Iowans.

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Iowa Community HUB

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Phone: 515-635-1285

Strategy Name: HUB Navigation Program

Goal or Desired Outcome: Improve identification, referral and enrollment into evidence-based community health promotion programs to advance health equity.

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Iowa HHS - Bureau of Policy & Workforce Services

Phone: 515-229-3913

Strategy Name: Primary Care Provider Loan Repayment Program

Goal or Desired Outcome: Provide assistance with the repayment of qualifying educational loans to eligible primary care medical, dental, and mental health practitioners.

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Iowa HHS - Iowa Health Care Workforce Initiative

Phone: 515-954-9537

Strategy Name: Strategic Planning and Stakeholder Engagement

Goal or Desired Outcome: Identify actionable solutions that would advance Iowa’s health care workforce through input from local communities and health care workforce stakeholders.

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Iowa HHS - Iowa Rural Hospital Flex Program

Strategy Name: Improving core care transition measures

Goal or Desired Outcome: Increase in number of Critical Access Hospitals reporting Emergency Department Transfer Communication.

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Iowa School Nurse Organization

Phone: 319-721-1769

Strategy Name: Addressing school nurse shortages

Goal or Desired Outcome: Increase the number of Iowa school nurses so there is at least one full-time, registered school nurse in every building, every day, all day.

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Primary Health Care, Inc.

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Strategy Name: The PHC Way

Goal or Desired Outcome: Reduce patients’ wait time, ensure schedules are full and patients have needed access, and improve work-life balance among employees by finishing charting prior to going home.

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University of Iowa Center for Disabilities and Development

Strategy Name: Training health care providers

Goal or Desired Outcome: Increase health care providers' comfort level when caring for people with disabilities; which promotes preventative care, reduces disparities, and reduces implicit bias.

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