Skip to main content


U.S. flag
      An official website of the United States government
              Here’s how you know
        Here’s how you knowDot gov**Official websites use .gov**
                 A **.gov** website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.
                  HTTPS**Secure .gov websites use HTTPS**
                 A **lock** (A locked padlock) or **https://** means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. 
  Menu Close
          Enter the terms you wish to search for.
    Search
        








  
  
    

  
      

                                      About HHS
    
                        
                              
      
      
      Programs & Services
    
                        
                              
      
      
      Grants & Contracts
    
                        
                              
      
      
      Laws & Regulations Breadcrumb
    Home
                              About
                              Budget
                              HHS FY 2023 Budget in Brief
                              FY 2023 Annual Performance Plan and Report
                              FY 2023 Annual Performance Plan and Report - Strategic Goal 1: Objective 1.5
 Navigate to:
  HHS Family of Agencies
                                            
            
            HHS Agencies & Offices
    
                                                  
                              
            
      
      
      
      Regional Offices
    
                                                  
                                            
            
      
      
      
      Advisory Committees, Task Forces & Initiatives
    
                                                  
                              
            
      
      
      
      Organizational Chart
    
                                    
                              
            
      
      
      
      Leadership
    
                                                  
                                                    
            
      
      
      
      Budget & Performance
                                            
            
            FY 2025 Budget in Brief
    
                                                  
                                            
            
      
      
      
      FY 2025 Annual Performance Plan and Report
    
                                                  
                                            
            
      
      
      
      FY 2024 Contingency Staffing Plan
    
                                                  
                                            
            
      
      
      
      FY 2024 Budget in Brief
    
                                                  
                                            
            
      
      
      
      FY 2024 Annual Performance Plan and Report
    
                                                  
                                            
            
      
      
      
      FY 2023 Contingency Staffing Plan
    
                                                  
                                            
            
      
      
      
      FY 2023 Budget in Brief
    
                                                  
                                            
            
      
      
      
      FY 2023 Annual Performance Plan and Report
    
                                                  
                                            
            
      
      
      
      FY 2022 Contingency Staffing Plan
    
                                                  
                                            
            
      
      
      
      FY 2022 Budget in Brief
    
                                                  
                                            
            
      
      
      
      FY 2022 Annual Performance Plan and Report
    
                                                  
                                            
            
      
      
      
      FY 2021 Contingency Staffing Plan
    
                                                  
                                            
            
      
      
      
      FY 2021 Budget in Brief
    
                                                  
                                            
            
      
      
      
      FY 2021 Annual Performance Plan and Report
    
                                                  
                                            
            
      
      
      
      FY 2020 Contingency Staffing Plan
    
                                                  
                                            
            
      
      
      
      FY 2020 Budget in Brief
    
                                                  
                              
            
      
      
      
      FY 2020 Annual Performance Report
    
                                                  
                                            
            
      
      
      
      FY 2019 Contingency Staffing Plan
    
                                                  
                              
            
      
      
      
      FY 2019 Annual Performance Report
    
                                                  
                                                                  
            
      
      
      
      Strategic Plan FY 2022 - 2026
                                            
            
            Message from the Secretary
    
                                                  
                                            
            
      
      
      
      Introduction: About HHS
    
                                                  
                                            
            
      
      
      
      Overview: Strategic Plan FY 2022 - 2026
    
                                                  
                                            
            
      
      
      
      Strategic Goal 1: Protect and Strengthen Equitable Access to High Quality and Affordable Healthcare
    
                                                  
                                            
            
      
      
      
      Strategic Goal 2: Safeguard and Improve National and Global Health Conditions and Outcomes
    
                                                  
                                            
            
      
      
      
      Strategic Goal 3: Strengthen Social Well-Being, Equity, and Economic Resilience
    
                                                  
                                            
            
      
      
      
      Strategic Goal 4: Restore Trust and Accelerate Advancements in Science and Research for All
    
                                                  
                                            
            
      
      
      
      Strategic Goal 5: Advance Strategic Management to Build Trust, Transparency, and Accountability
    
                                                  
                              
            
      
      
      
      Appendix: Plan Updates
    
                                    
                                            
            
      
      
      
      News
    
                                    
                              
            
      
      
      
      I Am HHS
    
                                    
                              
            
      
      
      
      CareersText resize icon

                    




FY 2023 Annual Performance Plan and Report - Strategic Goal 1: Objective 1.5








  
  
    

  
      



Fiscal Year 2023
Released March, 2022

**Topics on this page:** Objective 1.5: Bolster the health workforce to ensure delivery of quality services and care | Objective 1.5 Table of Related Performance Measures

Objective 1.5: Bolster the health workforce to ensure delivery of quality services and care

HHS supports strategies to bolster the health workforce to ensure delivery of quality services and care.  HHS is committed to facilitating coordinated efforts to address long-standing barriers to strengthening the health workforce.  HHS efforts focus on developing professional development opportunities to learn and use new skills to improve the delivery of quality services and care.  HHS is also strengthening the integration of culturally- and linguistically-appropriate and effective care into the services delivered by the health workforce.

The Office of the Secretary leads this objective.  The following divisions are responsible for implementing programs under this strategic objective: AHRQ, ASPE, CDC, CMS, FDA, HRSA, IHS, OASH, OGA, and SAMHSA.  The narrative below provides a brief summary of any past work towards these objectives and strategies planned to improve or maintain performance on these objectives.

Objective 1.5 Table of Related Performance Measures

*Percent of clinical training sites that provide interprofessional training to individuals enrolled in a primary care training program. (Lead Agency – HRSA; Measure ID – 2000.04)*
	FY 2016
			FY 2017
			FY 2018
			FY 2019
			FY 2020
			FY 2021
			FY 2022
			FY 2023Target
			19%
			19%
			24%
			45%
			50%
			50%
			55%
			65%Result
			30%17
			59%18
			64%
			71%
			50%
			Dec 31, 2022
			Dec 31, 2023
			Dec 31, 2024Status
			Target Exceeded
			Target Exceeded
			Target Exceeded
			Target Exceeded
			Target Met
			Pending
			Pending
			Pending

HRSA’s health professions programs strengthen the health workforce by developing, expanding, and enhancing training for health care professionals, particularly primary care providers, through grants awarded to health professions schools and training programs.  These programs prepare trainees to deliver quality, team-based patient care by offering interprofessional training experiences at clinical sites across the U.S. This measure calculates the percent of active clinical training sites at which individuals from more than one profession or discipline train together.

According to annual grantee performance report data, the number of sites providing interprofessional training experiences has increased by 41 percent from FY 2016 to FY 2020.  The rapid increase in this outcome is primarily due to efforts to increase interprofessional training across more than 40 health professions training programs.  The FY 2023 target was increased to 65 percent to reflect this upward trend, but was not increased further due to the uncertainty of the long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.  The pandemic may have prevented sites from creating new interprofessional training partnerships or maintaining existing ones which may not be reflected in the data right away.

In 2021, HRSA implemented a new grantee scorecard.  The scorecard allows program staff and grantees to determine whether individual grant programs and awardees are meeting the interprofessional training target.  Having increased access to the results of this measure is one strategy HRSA developed to ensure it can continue to meet its targets.

*Percentage of individuals supported by the Bureau of Health Workforce who completed a primary care training program and are currently employed in underserved areas19
 (Lead Agency - HRSA; Measure ID - 2000.03)*
	FY 2016
			FY 2017
			FY 2018
			FY 2019
			FY 2020
			FY 2021
			FY 2022
			FY 2023Target
			34%
			40%
			40%
			40%
			40%
			40%
			40%
			40%Result
			46%20
			43%21
			47%
			43%22
			40%
			Dec 31, 2022
			Dec 31, 2023
			Dec 31, 2024Status
			Target Exceeded
			Target Exceeded
			Target Exceeded
			Target Exceeded
			Target Met
			Pending
			Pending
			Pending

HRSA’s health professions programs strengthen the health workforce by developing, expanding, and enhancing training for health care professionals, particularly primary care providers, through grants awarded to health professions schools and training programs.  These programs improve access to health care in our Nation’s communities by training individuals who go on to work in medically underserved areas after completing their HRSA primary care training program.  This measure indicates the percent of individuals who report being employed in an underserved area one-year after they complete a HRSA Bureau of Health Workforce training program.  According to annual grantee performance reports, the number of individuals who completed a HRSA primary care training program and then found employment in medically underserved areas has remained relatively stable from FY 2016 to FY 2020, fluctuating by three to four percentage points each year.  Given the lack of a clear trend and the potential impact of COVID-19 on program completers’ employment decisions, HRSA is maintaining the FY 2022 target for FY 2023.

In 2021, HRSA implemented a new grantee scorecard.  The scorecard allows program staff and grantees to identify individual grant programs or awardees that may have best practices to share or may need additional assistance to increase program completers’ employment in medically underserved areas.  Having increased access to the results of this measure is one strategy HRSA developed to ensure it can continue to meet its targets.

*Percent growth of USPHS Ready Reserve Officers Year-over-Year (or total officers).  (Lead Agency – OASH; Measure ID –6.1.8*
	FY 2016
			FY 2017
			FY 2018
			FY 2019
			FY 2020
			FY 2021
			FY 2022
			FY 2023Target
			N/A
			N/A
			N/A
			N/A
			N/A
			200
			200
			250Result
			N/A
			N/A
			N/A
			N/A
			N/A
			15
			Sep 30, 2022
			Sep 30, 2023Status
			Not Collected
			Not Collected
			Not Collected
			Not Collected
			Not Collected
			Target Not Met
			Pending
			Pending

On March 27, 2020, the President signed H.R.  748, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act into law.  This historic legislation provided the necessary legislative changes to reinstate/implement the Ready Reserve Corps as well provided the initial funding to build the infrastructure for the program and begin the recruitment and training of the initial cohort.

All USPHS Ready Reserve officers are part-time officers; paid when on Active Duty (such as training or deployment).  Reservists are required to train (drill’) for a minimum of 2 weekends/month (on average) and 14 days/year for annual training.  Reservists are called to active duty for deployment or for training.  Based on critical specialized skill sets, reservists can also be placed on Active Duty (temporary/part-time) to support personnel shortages in HHS/or non-HHS agencies (e.g.  the Indian Health Service or other hard to fill positions).  The Ready Reserve ensures the USPHS has trained, ready and equipped surge capacity to respond to any public health emergency.  Recruitment is focused for high-demand, already-trained clinical professionals.  When not activated, Reservists work in their respective civilian jobs in their communities.

Commissioned Corp Headquarters’ s (CCHQ) Division of Commissioned Corps Services and Ready Reserve Affairs are leading the development and implementation of a comprehensive recruitment strategy and accompanying operations plan to reach the recruitment goals for the Ready Reserve Program.  The framework for this new strategy consists of three key areas of focus:  Communication and Stakeholder Engagement, CCHQ Infrastructure, and Performance Management.  Each focus area contains a series of activities with high impact on the overall strategy as well as a detailed plan of operation.  In addition, the strategy includes a performance management plan that consists of important milestones, key performance indicators, and a risk management plan.

As a new program, upon release of the CARES Act money in July of 2020, many policies and infrastructure related needs had to be created.  While some efforts for this are ongoing, HHS is pleased that OASH has been able to complete many of these endeavors which have provided the structural foundation that has allowed HHS to onboard a quickly growing number of Ready Reserve Officers.  However, in FY 2021, a discrepancy did exist between targets and results.  As described above, the infrastructural needs of a new program limited the agency’s ability to onboard officers to meet initial target goals.  HHS looks forward to meeting the FY 2022 target with the new strategy described above.

<<Return to Topics in this Report

Top of page

Strategic Goal 2 >>


17. Most recent results are for Academic Year 2016-2017 and funded in FY 2016. back to note 17
                      18. Most recent results are for Academic Year 2017-2018 and funded in FY 2017. back to note 18
                      19. Service location data are collected on students who have been out of the HRSA program for one year.  The results are from programs that have the ability to produce clinicians with one-year post program graduation.  Results are from Academic Year 2019-2020 based on graduates from Academic Year 2018-2019 back to note 19
                      20. Service location data are collected on students who have been out of the HRSA program for one year.  The results are from programs that have the ability to produce clinicians with one-year post program graduation.  Results are from Academic Year 2016-2017 based on graduates from Academic Year 2015-2016. back to note 20
                      21. Most recent results are for Academic Year 2017-2018 and funded in FY 2017.  Service location data are collected on students who have been out of the HRSA program for one year.  The results are from programs that have the ability to produce clinicians with one-year post program graduation.  Results are from Academic Year 2017-2018 based on graduates from Academic Year 2016-2017. back to note 21
                      22. Service location data are collected on students who have been out of the HRSA program for one year.  The results are from programs that have the ability to produce clinicians with one-year post program graduation.  Most recent results are for Academic Year 2019-2020 (funded in FY 2019) based on graduates from Academic Year 2018-2019. back to note 22

                    
  


Content created by Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources (ASFR) Content last reviewed March 28, 2022 Back to top
    Contact HHS
    
                        
                                            
      
      
      Careers
    
                        
                                            
      
      
      HHS FAQs
    
                        
                                            
      
      
      Nondiscrimination NoticeHHS Archive
    
                        
                                            
      
      
      Accessibility Statement
    
                        
                                            
      
      
      Privacy Policy
    
                        
                                            
      
      
      Viewers & PlayersBudget/Performance
    
                        
                                            
      
      
      Inspector General
    
                        
                                            
      
      
      Web Site Disclaimers
    
                        
                                            
      
      
      EEO/No Fear ActFOIA
    
                        
                                            
      
      
      The White House
    
                        
                                            
      
      
      USA.gov
    
                        
                                            
      
      
      Vulnerability Disclosure Policy
        Sign Up for Email Updates

Receive the latest updates from the Secretary, Blogs, and News Releases.

Sign Up
  HHS Headquarters
          200 Independence Avenue, S.W.
                  Washington, D.C. 20201
                  Toll Free Call Center: 1-877-696-6775​