The Center for Health Workforce Studies, with support from the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation, conducted a mixed methods study of New York hospitals to better understand issues related to persistent RN recruitment and retention challenges. The researchers identified the factors that contributed most to the problem and the most promising strategies to improve the recruitment and retention of patient care RNs, with a special emphasis on safety-net hospitals.
Citation: Martiniano R, Shirey S, Moore J. Understanding and Responding to Registered Nursing Shortages in Acute Care Hospitals in New York. Rensselaer, NY: Center for Health Workforce Studies, University at Albany, School of Public Health; July 2024.
This issue brief from the AAMC Research and Action Institute’s Fellow in Residence, Gaetano Forte, MS, Assistant Director, Center for Health Workforce Studies, University at Albany, SUNY, presents an approach to better understand the roles and contributions of nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician associates (PAs) on the health care team and how this new knowledge should be incorporated into existing workforce projections models. The paper proposes a 2-pronged solution to modeling deficits and to better project supply and demand for NPs and PAs and asserts that models should adapt to how the workforce changes, including how it is composed, how it is deployed, and how it accomplishes its work.
Citation: Forte G. How Improved Health Workforce Projection Models Could Support Policy. AAMC Research and Action Institute’s website. Published July 9, 2024. Accessed July 9, 2024. https://www.aamcresearchinstitute.org/our-work/issue-brief/how-improved-health-workforce-projection-models-could-support-policy
This report summarizes data from a variety of sources to describe New York State’s health workforce. Key goals of this report are to assist policy makers and other stakeholders to make informed decisions on health workforce education and job training investments, to help them address the most pressing health workforce needs, and to guide health workforce policies.
Citation: Martiniano R, Romero A, Pang J, Akeju O, Kang B, Allegretti M. The Health Care Workforce in New York State: Trends in the Supply of and Demand for Health Workers. Rensselaer, NY: Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany; April 2024.
This report summarizes the results of the Survey of Residents Completing Training in New York (Exit Survey) conducted by the Center for Health Workforce Studies (CHWS) in the spring and summer of 2023. The survey consists of questions covering the following general topics: residents’ demographic and background characteristics, residents’ post-graduation plans, characteristics of post-graduation employment (for residents with confirmed practice plans), and residents’ experiences in searching for a job and their impressions of the physician job market.
The primary goal of the Exit Survey is to assist the medical education community and policy makers in New York in their efforts to train physicians to meet the needs of the state and the nation. To achieve this goal, CHWS provides residency programs, teaching hospitals, and the medical education community with information about the demand for new physicians and the outcomes of residency training by specialty based on the results of the survey.
Citation: Pang J, Armstrong D, Shirey S. 2023 New York Residency Training Outcomes: A Summary of Responses to the 2023 New York Resident Exit Survey. Rensselaer, NY: Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, University at Albany; April 2024.
Physician workforce shortages, especially in primary care, are projected through the next decade and beyond. Understanding trends in demand for physicians by specialty can help policy makers anticipate and address current and future shortages. This report presents demand indicator profiles for 31 specialties. Each specialty profile summarizes trends in 5 key areas related to physician supply and demand: starting income, job offers, having to change plans due to limited practice opportunities, relative demand, and numbers of graduates. Data on starting income, job offers, having to change plans, and relative demand are based on responses to the Resident Exit Survey in New York (for the years 2017 to 2022).
Citation: Pang J, Armstrong DP. Trends in Demand for New Physicians, 2017-2022: A Summary of Demand Indicators. Rensselaer, NY: Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany; September 2023.
This Oral Health Workforce Research Center (OHWRC) report describes the levels of burnout experienced by oral health providers in the safety-net during the COVID-19 pandemic including contributing factors and strategies used to increase workforce resilience.
Citation: Surdu S, Langelier M, O’Malley E, Fernando T, Pang J, Romero A. Identifying Strategies to Improve Oral Health Workforce Resilience. Rensselaer, NY: Oral Health Workforce Research Center, Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany; September 2023.
This report describes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the delivery of oral health services in the dental safety-net using teledentistry to consult with patients.
Citation:Langelier M, Fernando T, Surdu S, Romero A. Teledentistry Adoption and Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Rensselaer, NY: Oral Health Workforce Research Center, Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany; July 2023.
This report describes the immediate and longer-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on 4 domains of the oral health care system: care delivery, regulation, education, and finance.
Citation: Langelier M, Kottek A, Fernando T, Werts M, Zhou S, Shen E, Mertz E, Surdu S. COVID-19 Impact on Dental Service Delivery, Financing Regulation, and Education Systems: An Environmental Scan. Rensselaer, NY: Oral Health Workforce Research Center, Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany; July 2023.
The annual survey of deans of New York State’s registered nursing (RN) nursing programs conducted by the Center for Health Workforce Studies (CHWS) provides critical information on the production of RNs in the state that can assist stakeholders to better understand the relationship between RN production and the supply of the state’s nursing workforce. This brief describes findings from the most recent survey of nursing education programs.
Citation: Martiniano R, Moore J. Trends in New York State Registered Nurse Graduations, 2019-2022. Rensselaer, NY: Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany; June 2023.
This research brief profiles the health professionals fulfilling service obligations in New York State through either federal or state provider incentive programs as of March 2022.
Citation: Martiniano R, Romero A, Moore J. Service-Obligated Providers in New York State. Rensselaer, NY: Center for Health Workforce Studies, School of Public Health, SUNY Albany; May 2023.
