National Center for Health Workforce Analysis

Reports > State Responses to Health Worker Shortages: Results of 2002 Survey of States > State Details > Minnesota

Task Force, Commission or Panel

• The Minnesota Hospital and Healthcare Partnership has established a task force on workforce development to recommend strategies to address future workforce needs.
  For more information: Minnesota Hospital Association Workforce
• In 2001, the Minnesota Health Professions Workforce Partnership convened eleven regional forums to discuss strategies to address health workforce shortages.
  For more information: Critical Resources: Forums Addressing Minnesota Health Care Worker Shortage
• In 2001, the Minnesota Department of Health convened a panel of nursing workforce experts to examine use of a Magnet Nursing Services Recognition Program as a way to address nursing shortages.
  For more information: Findings from the Minnesota Registered Nurse Workforce Survey
  

Scholarships, Loan Repayment

• Minnesota's Department of Health website offers loan repayment programs for rural and urban physicians, dentists, physicians assistants, nurse practitioners, and nurses.
  For more information: Loan Forgiveness Programs in Minnesota

Marketing Health Careers

• Minnesota Hospital and Healthcare Partnership offers a Summer Healthcare Internship program for high school students.
  For more information: Minnesota Hospital Association Summer Internship Program
• The Targeted Industry Partnership hosts a health careers website.
  For more information: Just the Facts: Health Care

Data Collection

• Minnesota's Department of Health regularly surveys the state's health care practitioners at the time of license renewal or registration.
  For more information: Minnesota Health Services Personnel Database
  

Other

• The "Creating Capacity for Nursing Education in Minnesota" workshop developed by the Healthcare Education-Industry Partnership (HEIP), Minnesota Colleagues in Caring (MnCIC), and MHHP, was held in St. Cloud on Oct. 5, 2001. The workshop convened nurse educators, employers, and students to comprehensively understand and improve the academic nursing environment.
  For more information: Creating Capacity for Nursing Education in Minnesota