January 2012
Career Initiative for Economic and Workforce Development
The Southeastern Louisiana University Small Business Center and the Northshore Healthcare Alliance (NHA) have formed a regional partnership to collaborate and implement a US Department of Labor (DOL) Employment Training Act (ETA) grant for the healthcare sector. The grant is targeting healthcare workers in the Florida parishes; Livingston, St Helena, St Tammany, Tangipahoa and Washington Parishes, who are being transformed by technology and innovation requiring new skill sets for workers. The short-term goal of the project is to train these healthcare workers for advancement and increased job retention.
Healthcare will remain the largest source of job growth nationally in the coming years with 3.5 million new jobs added across the sector by 2016. The Louisiana Workforce Commission reports 311,630 people currently employed in the healthcare sector. In St Tammany Parish 14, 177 and in Tangipahoa 8852 are employed in healthcare in 2011, placing these parishes among the top 10 employers in the healthcare sector in the state. Top demand occupations in healthcare include, RN’s. Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN) and nurse assistants and home health nurses.
The Southeastern Louisiana University, NHA healthcare grant, known as Careers that Heal, has partnered with regional healthcare educators at SLU School of Nursing, and Northshore Technical Community College (NTCC) to provide instruction and on site skills training to Certified Nurse Assistants, CNA’s, in technology, soft skills and patient care competencies through short term site based training. Training strategies are based on best practices to increase retention and improve wages. In addition 60 allied health and nursing professionals will be trained by NTCC instructors in technology skills to enhance performance in the workplace. Other regional partners supporting the project include WIA Area 20 One Stops and the First Planning District Workforce Investment Board .
NHA partners are also collaborating and outreaching to 2000 secondary ed students in Tangipahoa and St Tammany Parish high schools as part of the Careers that Heal grant. High school students are provided with information and career pathway materials to show them how to get started now in a healthcare career.
For more information please call Jan Robert, Executive Director, Northshore Healthcare Alliance, 985-789-1382 and refer to the website www.careersthatheal.com.
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September 2011
Careers That Heal Tuition-Free Training for
Healthcare Professionals
The Northshore Healthcare Alliance (NHA) is partnering with Southeastern Louisiana University SBDC to implement a workforce grant received through the U.S. Department of Labor. The grant will train 40 CNAs in computer skills, soft skills and enhanced nursing skills to improve quality of care and nursing competencies. Sixty allied health and nursing professionals will have the opportunity to upgrade their technology skills and receive MOS certification through a free Careers that Heal information technology program delivered by Northshore Technical Community College.
For more information on this training please contact Jan Robert at janrobert@nshealthcarealliance.org.
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NHA Program of Work 2011-2012
The NHA has a full agenda for the 2011-2012 year. We plan to collaborate with our Northshore partners in healthcare to address the shortages in clinical lab positions (medical technologists, med lab techs, histologists,etc), physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech language therapists, CV lab Techs, EEG techs and case managers. In addition there are exciting discussions taking place at our Northshore hospitals about nurse residency training programs to assist our new nursing graduates with job placement and to better acclimate our grads to the hospital as employers work towards a culture of “growing their own.”
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June 2011
Delgado Community College and Northshore Technical College are leading the way in training our future healthcare professionals for our region's hospitals, medical clinics and offices.
Delgado Community College in New Orleans and on the Northshore offers over 25 programs to choose from in allied health careers. This summer, DCC will graduate healthcare professionals representing Dietetic Technicians, Medical Ultrasound, EMT, Nuclear Medical Technicians, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Radiology Technicians, and Respiratory Care Technicians.
Northshore Technical College has several campuses conveniently located on the northshore in Bogalusa, Hammond and the Florida Parishes. Healthcare professionals will complete training this spring and summer as Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN), Patient Care Techs (PCT), Certified Nurse Assistants (CNA), Medical Assistants (MA) and EMT's.
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April 2011
Northshore Healthcare Alliance representatives from Ochsner Hospital Northshore and Lakeview Regional Medical Center visited Lakeshore High in March to present 175 students with information on healthcare career pathways.
Health professionals representing occupations such as nursing, surgical technicians, radiology, orthopedics, and medical technology and clinical lab professions provided the students with testimonials and examples of a day in their lives as medical professionals.
The students experienced first hand what it is like to gown up and prepare for surgery, read X rays and see and touch many of the instruments used in surgical procedures and in hospital labs to assist in diagnosing disease processes.
The Northshore Healthcare Alliance, NHA, is a program of the St Tammany West Chamber of Commerce. The mission of the NHA is to develop and support training programs which result in building a skilled workforce for the healthcare industry on the Northshore.
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Click on below links to read the full articles:
Mandeville High students learn about healthcare careers
Careers That Heal helps to expand healthcare training
Healthcare careers: working behind the scenes
Students partcipate in Health Care Scholars program
St. Tammany Parish Hospital offers volunteer program
Past news articles:
What do employers expect from employees?
To hire or not to hire: When making a hiring decision, what is the one quality that employers consider to be most important?
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