These changes will be essential ingredients to ensuring that the health system is affordable and responsive to consumer needs, said Showstack. Create new types of work environments that emphasize quality, flexibility, service and cultural diversity. Prepare the workforce to improve the quality of patient care. Encourage participation among labor, education, and the workforce in order to promote change and quality improvement Encourage allied and auxiliary workers to take advantage of career development programs to expand their opportunities. Change state regulations of these workers to allow more flexibility in the workplace.
Health care is a labor intensive effort.
The UCSF Center for the Health Professions seeks to assist health care professionals, health professions schools, health care delivery organizations, and public policy makers in responding to the challenges of educating and managing a health care workforce capable of improving the health and well being of people in their communities. The UCSF Center for the Health Professions is part of the UCSF Center f or Health and Community, a multidisciplinary center which assesses the challenges of the changing health care delivery environment and identifies policies and interventions to maximize the beneficial impact of the changing health care delivery system. The Center for Health and Community is comprised of programs and individual faculty from all UCSF Schools who have been at the cutting edge of health services and policy-related research for many years, and includes basic social and behavioral scientists in epidemiology, health policy, anthropology, psychology, sociology, history, bioethics, economics, and clinical research. The California HealthCare Foundation, located in Oakland, is a nonprofit philanthropic organization whose mission is to expand access to affordable, quality health care for underserved individuals and communities and to promote fundamental improvements in the health status of the people of California.