March 2021 Work Force Newsletter

Health Care

Workforce Updates

March 2021

Health care workforce survey update

Preliminary analysis from our health care workforce survey conducted in late 2020 has revealed critical training needs including cultural responsiveness, relationship building and addressing social determinants of health. A full report of the survey findings will be available later this year. We will use the survey data to inform the training and professional development opportunities shared in this newsletter. 

Employees' basic needs, including child care, were identified as an emerging area of focus in the survey. With the passage of the American Rescue Plan, we encourage employers to educate their staff on benefits such as the expanded child care tax credit. An online calculator is available from Kiplinger to help people learn about their expected benefits.

New York State paid COVID vaccine leave

On March 12 Governor Cuomo signed new legislation requiring New York employers to provide employees with paid time off to receive the COVID-19 vaccination. This paid leave can be used if an employee needs to take time away from work to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Employees are eligible for up to 4 hours of paid leave per injection. 

Implementing diversity, equity and inclusion organizational strategies webinar

The Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce is offering Colors of Success: Policy, Practice, and the Realities of Implementing DEI Organizational Strategies on April 13, at 11 AM. This introductory series on diversity, equity and inclusion aims to inform and encourage organizations to improve workplace equity.

Click here to learn more and to register.

Caring for elders geriatric teaching day

University of Rochester is hosting its 14th Annual Caring for Elders Geriatric Teaching Day on April 14 from 9 AM to 4 PM via Zoom. Sessions include:

• Age friendly health system
• Managing difficult families
• Medical marijuana, CBD and the older adult
• Caring for the caregiver

Continuing education credits are available for nursing and social work.

Click here to learn more and to register.

Public health partnership conference

NYSPHA's Public Health Partnership Conference will be held virtually on April 28-30. A keynote address will be delivered by APHA President José Ramón Fernández- Peña, MD, MPA. Sessions include:

• Planetary Health: Climate, COVID and Chronic Disease
• Community Health Worker Led Training on Social Determinants of Health in Healthcare and School Health Settings
• Rural Health Funding & the Workforce

​Click here to learn more and to register.

HRSA dental faculty repayment program

Applications are being accepted through April 19, 2021  for HRSA's Dental Faculty Loan Repayment Program. The purpose of this program is to increase the number of dental and dental hygiene faculty in the workforce by assisting dental and dental hygiene training programs to attract and retain faculty through loan repayment. Eligible entities are programs of general, pediatric, or public health dentistry in public or private nonprofit dental or dental hygiene schools, or approved residency or advanced education programs in the practice of general, pediatric, or public health dentistry. 

Click here to access the application.

Please share your health care workforce updates

If you have a training opportunity or workforce update you'd like us to share, you can send it to: melissa.pennise@commongroundhealth.org, and we will add it to the next newsletter.

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