Healthcare reform, new payment methodologies, and other delivery system changes are transforming the composition, deployment, and skills requirements of the healthcare workforce. Unions, employers, government, and other workforce stakeholders share an interest in ensuring that systems and funding are in place to support training and education for the workforce of today and tomorrow. By coming together we will build a stronger understanding of best practice and take on key policy and research issues where our voice and concerns need to be heard.

Coming together, we can raise our visibility and voice and build a practice and policy environment to meet our needs as an industry

The objectives of the conference include:

• Identifying the future workforce needs of long term care, homecare, hospital, ambulatory systems, and clinics
• Developing a shared platform for workforce and education policy, research and practice to support healthcare’s Triple Aim
• Building the case for industry inclusion (both employer and union/ supply and demand) in national policy discussions on workforce and education