Missouri hospitals provide access to lifesaving care 24-7.

This is possible when hospitals have qualified staff with the right skills, in the right place to provide high-quality care for Missouri’s 6 million citizens. MHA offers various workforce resources to support member hospitals in implementing strategies for workforce planning, recruitment, retention, and development that best serve your community’s needs.

2021 COVID-19 Workforce Report

MHA’s 2021 COVID-19 Workforce Report examines how the pandemic has influenced the hospital workforce and how it will alter workforce planning in the future. The report is built around five pillars of change, and each includes lessons learned from Missouri hospitals, as well as recommended action steps for hospital leaders, workforce planners and stakeholders. By using the lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals — and partners in academia and workforce development — can transfer the best practices established during the pandemic to build a more robust hospital and health care workforce.

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Workforce Analyses

MHA's Annual Workforce Reports

2021 Annual Workforce Report

MHA’s 2021 Workforce Report indicates a combined turnover rate among all professions surveyed reached an all-time high at 21.5% statewide. The analysis finds increased vacancy and turnover rates among a majority of the health care positions surveyed. The data in this report reflect the status of the hospital workforce in 2020, and thus reflect a COVID-19 workforce. The report includes data from 131 hospitals and identifies trends among 28 hospital-based positions and four clinic and physician practice positions.

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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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Primary Care Physicians: Missouri Workforce Update

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

Missouri State Board of Nursing Annual Report

American Association of Colleges of Nursing — State Snapshot

Nursing Supply and Demand Through 2020

Workforce Programs

Health Career Pathways Initiative

MHA’s Health Career Pathways Initiative is focused on aligning workforce planning in each region of the state. This involves developing partnerships to discuss collaborative efforts to build our health care workforce pipeline at a regional level, coordinated by MHA. The partnership brings stakeholders together to address the gap between workforce supply and demand, and to create health care career pathways.

This initiative connects hospital human resources professionals with a network that prioritizes workforce needs, leverages resources, and delivers services and programs that prepare qualified workers. The network also includes academic institutions, chambers of commerce, community providers, governmental agencies, and local workforce development agencies.

Compensation and Benefits Survey

Each year through an agreement with MHA and the Kansas Hospital Association, Gallagher Surveys performs web-based compensation and benefits surveys for MHA and KHA members. Surveys include annual employee compensation and benefits data for more than 400 job titles, including C-suite, mid-level managers, physicians and hourly employees.

Member hospitals that participate in each survey can view the results at no charge.

MHA Resources

Missouri Health Careers

Visit your No. 1 resource for Missouri health careers to take a quiz to find a health care career that’s right for you. Resources, including free career guides/brochures, are available for job seekers, students, educators, and volunteers.

Missouri Hospital Jobs

Enhance your own staff recruitment efforts through the Missouri Hospital Jobs. This service allows MHA member hospitals and job seekers to connect through the National Healthcare Career Network.

Background Check Advantage

Background Check Advantage is your one-stop shop for all background screening services. The reporting program is fully accessible through a secure online site, including order entry, results reporting, and various management reports.

careLearning

careLearning is an online education company designed to help health care organizations provide reliable, trusted and easily-accessible talent management solutions.

APS Staffing Program

The APS Staffing Program gives organizations access to a wide array of staff from nearly 50 qualified staffing firms, filling both clinical and nonclinical positions.

Resources

Reports

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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Toolkits

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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Education

Innovations in Student Nurse Clinical Education Partnerships

June 10, 2021

This event features new and innovative ways in which hospitals and schools of nursing are making it easier for nursing students to learn and quickly acclimate to the health care environment — all while earning a salary. Learn how Freeman Health System collaborated with Crowder Community College, and Missouri Baptist Sullivan Hospital collaborated with East Central College to introduce a new model of nursing education. By transforming the clinical learning experience into an apprenticeship model, students pursuing an associate degree in nursing gain real-world clinical practice as they become acclimated to the health care culture. This model increases student confidence, and it is an avenue to combat the nursing shortage and reduce new nurse turnover rates.

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Rethinking the Workforce: Strategies for Establishing a Volunteer Nurse Program

May 21, 2018

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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Personal Membership Group

The Missouri Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration is a group of hospital and health system professionals who perform duties in the area of human resources and/or personnel management.

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HPOG

The Health Profession Opportunity Grant provides education and training to low-income individuals for occupations in the health care field that pay well and are expected to either experience labor shortages or be in high demand.

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Media Library

Health Care Workforce

Missouri hospitals provide access to lifesaving care 24-7.

2021 COVID-19 Workforce Report

2021 Annual Workforce Report

2020 Annual Workforce Report

2018 Primary Care Physicians: Missouri Workforce Update

Snapshot of Missouri’s Health Care Workforce

Missouri State Board of Nursing 2019 Annual Reports

American Association of Colleges of Nursing — State Snapshot

Nursing Supply and Demand Through 2020

Workforce Programs

Health Career Pathways Initiative

Compensation and Benefits Survey

Missouri Health Careers

Missouri Hospital Jobs

Background Check Advantage

careLearning

APS Staffing Program

Nursing Excellence: Leadership Development, Culture, and Retention

Inclusive Local Hiring Toolkit

Innovations in Student Nurse Clinical Education Partnerships

Rethinking the Workforce: Strategies for Establishing a Volunteer Nurse Program

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Jean Klindt

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