2020 Annual Workforce Report

MHA’s 2020 Workforce Report finds that, at the close of 2019, turnover among all surveyed hospital professions was at 19.8% — the highest rate since reporting began in 2001. The data represented in this year’s report and 10 region-specific reports reflect the status of the hospital workforce in 2019. As a result, the reports reflect a pre-COVID-19 workforce. The report includes data from 138 hospitals and identifies trends among 28 hospital-based positions and four clinic and physician practice positions.

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2019 Annual Workforce Report

MHA’s 2019 workforce report focuses on the health care workforce and frames MHA’s economic development initiative. The first part of this report includes an analysis of Missouri’s current hospital workforce from MHA’s annual workforce survey, which compiles data from 135 Missouri hospitals. The second part examines the health care workforce needs through 2030. Along with the report, workforce data – collected by MHA-member hospitals, and 13 Kansas and six Illinois hospitals – are represented in 10 region-specific reports.

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2018 Primary Care Physicians: Missouri Workforce Update

Primary care is the gateway to improving individual, community, and population health. As the population ages, significant investment and policy changes are necessary to meet the growth in demand for health care services, especially in rural areas of Missouri. This MHA report provides a snapshot of the primary care landscape in the state and identifies the need to strengthen this critical component of Missouri’s workforce.

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Snapshot of Missouri’s Health Care Workforce

This analysis from MHA lists facts about occupational projections, nursing age distribution, primary care, and various high-demand positions.

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Missouri State Board of Nursing 2019 Annual Reports

This report includes facts about nursing education statistics, nursing programs, the average age of nurses, complaint categories, and financial information.

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American Association of Colleges of Nursing — State Snapshot

This snapshot from AACN includes data for Missouri nursing enrollment and graduation, registered nurses, and program funding.

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Nursing Supply and Demand Through 2020

In 2015, Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce released a report, “Nursing: Supply and Demand Through 2020.” The report describes the driving factors impacting the supply and demand of the nursing workforce.

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Nursing Excellence: Leadership Development, Culture, and Retention

Results from the 2017 HealthLeaders Media Nursing Excellence Survey analyzes the top challenges that nursing staff face and that directly affect an organization’s ability to recruit and retain top-notch nursing staff in the health care industry.

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Health Career Pathways Task Force Report

The Advisory Board Company led a task force charged with identifying specific needs and best practices to improve health career pathways. The board issued a report showing tremendous potential for health care employers to work in partnership with educators to train and recruit the entry-level staff needed to serve patients in their communities.

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Inclusive Local Hiring Toolkit

Establishing a local and inclusive hiring strategy is an important first step towards rethinking your health system’s role in the community. The Democracy Collaborative published a toolkit to help you get started.

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Hiring Veterans Toolkit

Veterans with medical backgrounds can be excellent hospital employee candidates. The American Hospital Association’s toolkit provides specific information on how hospitals can hire veterans.

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A Toolkit for Registered Apprenticeship in Healthcare

Health care employers are turning to registered apprenticeships to address the projected talent shortfall and evolving trends. A registered apprenticeship is a job that combines workplace learning with job-related instruction tailored to organizational needs. These programs are helping to educate and up-skill thousands of workers in America’s health care industry. The Healthcare Career Advancement Program published a toolkit with core apprenticeship information and guidance documents.

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Rethinking the Workforce: Strategies for Establishing a Volunteer Nurse Program

As workforce shortages continue to challenge the health care industry, volunteer nurses can help. Volunteer nurses take on many different roles in caring for patients. Regardless of specific duties, volunteer nurses are given the freedom to devote extended amounts of time to one patient, if needed. This flexibility allows volunteer nurses to deliver one-on-one direct patient care — the reason many individuals originally joined the nursing profession.

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