Resources: Arizona (39)
The Challenges of Primary Care and Innovative Responses in Osteopathic Education
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Link: Abstract
Highlights osteopaths tendency to go into primary care, trends away from primary care, and model programs intended to increase interest in primary care.
Author: Shannon SC, Ferretti SM, Wood D, Levitan T
Location: Health Affairs, 29(5), 1015-22
Date: 5/2010
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Tagged keywords: Arizona, Best Practices and Model Programs, Education and Training, National, Osteopathic Physicians, Pennsylvania, Physicians, Primary Care, Specialty Choice
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2009 AAPA Physician Assistant Census Report for the Mountain Census Division
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Includes regional and state-specific information on physician assistants for the eight states in the Mountain Census Division. Covers demographics, distribution by state and rurality, expected retirement age, employment setting, specialty, call hours, and income.
Organization: American Academy of Physician Assistants
Date: 1/2010
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Tagged keywords: Arizona, Colorado, Distribution, Diversity, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Idaho, Military Health and Veterans Health, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Physician Assistants, School Health, Supply and Demand, Utah, Wyoming
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The Economic Recession: Early Impacts on Health Care Safety Net Providers
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Reports on a survey of five metropolitan communities to determine the impact of the recession on safety net providers. Considers the increase in patients, federal stimulus funding, cuts to other funding sources, strategies they have used to remain viable including staffing scenarios, and policy implications.
Organization: Center for Studying Health System Change
Date: 1/2010
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Tagged keywords: Arizona, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Health Care Access, Hospitals, National, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Urban, Washington
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Tuition and Fees in Public Higher Education in the West, 2009-2010: Detailed Tuition and Fees Tables
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Provides an update of WICHE's annual report on tuition and mandatory fees at public institutions in WICHE's 15-state region. Includes an institution-by-institution historical review of tuition changes from year to year, as well as those from one, five, and ten years ago.
Organization: Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education
Date: 11/2009
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Tagged keywords: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Financial Aid, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Student Debt Load, Utah, Washington, Wyoming
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Using innovation to assess nursing workforce in Arizona: a collaborative approach
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Link: Abstract
Describes the process of using nurse license renewal data to generate the information needed to measure and project the supply of RNs, LPNs, and APNs in Arizona as well as other states.
Author: Wilson B, Johnson W
Location: Nursing Economics, 27(4), 233-238
Date: 7/2009
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Tagged keywords: Arizona, Licensed Practical Nurses and Licensed Vocational Nurses, National, Nursing Occupations, Registered Nurses
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The Arizona Health Care Workforce: Nurses, Pharmacists, & Physician Assistants
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Provides detailed information and analysis on the characteristics of the health care workforce including nurses, pharmacists, and physician assistants.
Organization: Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association
Author: Johnson W, Wilson B, Qiu Y, Oliver E
Date: 4/2009
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Tagged keywords: Arizona, Nursing Occupations, Pharmacists, Physician Assistants
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General Hospitals, Specialty Hospitals and Financially Vulnerable Patients
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Discusses how specialty hospitals can compete with general hospitals in terms of staffing, services, and insurance. Reports on a study of three specialty hospital markets to determine if they affect safety net hospitals. Includes a section on competition for staff.
Organization: Center for Studying Health System Change
Author: Tynan A, November EA, Lauer J, Pham HH, Cram P
Date: 4/2009
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Tagged keywords: Arizona, Arkansas, Hospitals, Indiana, Physicians
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Improving the Quality of Care: The Continuing Debate Over Nurse-Patient Ratios
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Discusses recent studies and legislation on nurse staffing ratios.
Organization: National Conference of State Legislatures
Author: Gever M
Date: 3/2009
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Tagged keywords: Arizona, California, Florida, Health Care Quality, Illinois, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Nursing Occupations, Oregon, West Virginia
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Probation and Recidivism: Remediation Among Disciplined Nurses in Six States
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Link: Abstract
Examines which factors affect remediation and relapse for nurses who were put on probation by a state nursing board.
Author: Zhong EH, Kenward K, Sheets VR, Doherty ME, Gross L
Location: The American Journal of Nursing, 109(3), 48-50, 52-7
Date: 3/2009
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Tagged keywords: Arizona, Licensed Practical Nurses and Licensed Vocational Nurses, Licensure and Certification, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Carolina, Nursing Occupations, Registered Nurses
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Provider Incentive Programs: An Opportunity for Medicaid to Improve Quality at the Point of Care
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Provides examples of state provider incentive programs. Discusses how joint pay for performance programs coordinated through Medicaid could help improve health care quality.
Organization: Center for Health Care Strategies
Author: Hasselman D
Date: 3/2009
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Tagged keywords: Arizona, Health Care Quality, Massachusetts, Medicare and Medicaid, Minnesota, Missouri, Rhode Island
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Some Hidden Costs of Faculty Turnover in One Academic Medical Center
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Link: Abstract
Analyzes the costs of faculty turnover at The University of Arizona College of Medicine, including recruitment costs, lost income, and hiring costs.
Author: Schloss EP, Flanagan DM, Culler CL, Wright AL
Location: Academic Medicine, 84(1), 32-6
Date: 1/2009
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Tagged keywords: Arizona, Faculty, Physicians, Recruitment and Retention
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2008 National Profile of Local Health Departments Study Series
Web site
Offers PowerPoint presentations based on the 2008 National Profile of Local Health Departments for twenty states. Includes slides related to the local health department workforce. The 2010 study series is set to be released fall of 2010.
Organization: National Association of County and City Health Officials
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, National, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Public Health, Washington, Wisconsin
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Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists - Workforce Maps by State
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Provides maps showing the number of practicing child and adolescent psychiatrists per county and per 100,000 children for most states and the District of Columbia.
Organization: American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maps, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, National, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Physicians, Psychiatrists, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Statistics and Data, Supply and Demand, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming
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Compendium of Best Practices/Models that Work in Rural Workforce Development
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Includes examples of best practices for developing the health workforce from various states.
Organization: National Rural Health Association
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: Alaska, Arizona, Best Practices and Model Programs, Dental Occupations, Interprofessional Training, Montana, New Mexico, Osteopathic Physicians, Physicians, Primary Care, Rural, South Carolina, West Virginia
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Turbulent Economic Outlook for Arizona’s Hospitals
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Presents data highlighting how Arizona's hospitals are experiencing turbulent economic times. Discusses hiring pay freezes, financial performance, and delaying of hospital construction projects.
Organization: Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association
Date: 2009
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Tagged keywords: Arizona, Economy, Hospitals
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Arizona's Partnership for Nursing Education (APNE) Funding and Impact
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Discusses the impact of a grant program intended to double the capacity of Arizona's nursing schools by increasing nursing faculty.
Organization: Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association
Date: 12/2008
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Tagged keywords: Arizona, Education and Training, Faculty, Nursing Occupations
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Characteristics of Arizona Physicians Reentering Clinical Practice 2003 - 2006
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Presents on the characteristics of physicians in Arizona who resumed clinical practice. Identifies specialty changes in a small portion of those returning to medicine. From the fall 2008 AMA-AAP Physician Reentry into the Workforce conference.
Author: Rimsza ME
Date: 9/2008
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Tagged keywords: Arizona, Physicians, Specialty Choice, Workforce Reentry and Retraining
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Access to Care and Use of Preventive Services by Hispanics: State-Based Variations from 1991 to 2004
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Links: Abstract, Highlights
Examines changes in access to physician care and preventative services by Hispanics in ten states.
Author: Kang-Kim M, Betancourt JR, Ayanian JZ, Zaslavsky AM, Yucel RM, Weissman JS
Location: Medical Care, 46(5), 507–14
Date: 5/2008
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Tagged keywords: Arizona, California, Colorado, Disparities, Florida, Health Care Access, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Physicians, Texas
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In Any Language: Improving the Quality and Availability of Language Services in Hospitals
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Discusses the importance of language interpretive services for quality health care. Examines the use of medical interpreters at ten hospitals and measures for quality language services to track performance.
Organizations: George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Author: Regenstein M, Trott J, West C, Huang J
Date: 5/2008
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Tagged keywords: Arizona, California, Health Care Quality, Limited English Proficiency, Massachusetts, Medical Interpreters, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Washington
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Arizona Direct Care Fact Sheet
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Includes key facts for direct care worker advocates and their allies, legislators, policymakers, members of the media, and others interested in direct care issues in Arizona.
Organization: Direct Care Alliance
Date: 2008
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Tagged keywords: Arizona
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The Arizona RN Shortage: 2007 Results
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Provides statistics on the Arizona registered nurse workforce and RN shortage.
Organization: Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association
Date: 2008
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Tagged keywords: Arizona, Registered Nurses
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Recruitment & Retention of Clinicians
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Comprised of best practices relating to clinician recruitment and retention efforts. Created in partnership with the Arizona, Illinois, Mississippi, and Virginia primary care associations.
Organizations: Arizona Association of Community Health Centers, Illinois Primary Health Care Association, Mississippi Primary Health Care Association, Virginia Community Healthcare Association
Author: Welborn D, Norris K, Harrion A, Guye K
Date: 2008
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Tagged keywords: Arizona, Best Practices and Model Programs, Illinois, Mississippi, Physicians, Recruitment and Retention, Virginia
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Rx for Arizona's Nursing Crisis: America's Partnership for Nursing Education
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Discusses Arizona's nursing shortage, the drive behind that shortage, and a legislation proposal that could alleviate the shortage.
Organization: Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association
Date: 2008
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Tagged keywords: Arizona, Education and Training, Nursing Occupations, Supply and Demand
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Phoenix Rises, With Tucson's Help: Establishing the First Four-Year Allopathic Program in the Nation's Fifth Largest City
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Link: Abstract
Describes the expansion of The University of Arizona College of Medicine from Tucson, Arizona, into Phoenix. Presents 21 lessons to be considered early in a medical school expansion process.
Author: Joiner KA, Schloss EP, Philip Malan T, Flynn SD, Chadwick JA
Location: Academic Medicine, 82(12):1126-38
Date: 12/2007
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Tagged keywords: Arizona, Education and Training
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Around the Country: IPHW: Inspiring Native American Students to Pursue Health Care Careers
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Describes the Indigenous Pride Health Worker program which prepares Native American high school students in Arizona for future health care careers by allowing them to shadow health professionals.
Organization: Rural Assistance Center
Author: Helseth C
Location: The Rural Monitor
Date: 9/2007
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Tagged keywords: Arizona, Best Practices and Model Programs, Diversity, Workforce Pipeline
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Student Perceptions: The Influence of a Nursing Workforce Diversity Grant on Retention
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Link: Abstract
Reports on a survey of baccalaureate nursing students who receiving a nursing diversity grant. Analyzes how the grants helped them overcome barriers and the needs that remain.
Author: Evans BC
Location: Nurse Educator, 46(8), 354-9
Date: 8/2007
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Tagged keywords: Arizona, Diversity, Education and Training, Financial Aid, Nursing Occupations
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Border County Health Workforce Profiles: Arizona
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Represents an effort to assemble and disseminate consistent and current information on the health workforce, relevant population characteristics, and basic health indicators for the U.S. Border region. Based on county-level data and reported by geographic proximity to the Border.
Organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
Date: 6/2007
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Tagged keywords: Arizona, Disparities, Distribution, Statistics and Data
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Arizona’s Healthcare Workforce Shortage
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Discusses Arizona having the lowest number of employed
registered nurses per capita of all 50 states due to a
lack of education capacity in the state’s college and
university nursing programs.
Organization: Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association
Date: 4/2007
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Tagged keywords: Arizona, Registered Nurses, Supply and Demand
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The Economic Impact of Arizona's Hospitals on the State and Its Counties
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Discusses hospital employment in Arizona and hospitals' impact on Arizona's economy.
Organization: Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association
Date: 1/2007
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Tagged keywords: Arizona, Economy, Hospitals
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A Closer Look at Healthcare Workforce Needs in the West: Pharmacy
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Highlights growing demand, increase in female pharmacists, regional occupation outlook, and expansion of pharmacy education in the western United States.
Organization: Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education
Date: 2007
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Tagged keywords: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Occupations, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wyoming
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Staff Nurses and Their Solutions to the Nursing Shortage
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Link: Abstract
Results of a survey taken by 787 staff nurses in eight states, responding to the top five actions they thought would improve nursing and decrease the shortage.
Author: Lynn MR, Redman RW
Location: Western Journal of Nursing Research, 28(6):678-93
Date: 10/2006
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Tagged keywords: Arizona, Idaho, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Nursing Occupations, Supply and Demand, Texas, West Virginia, Wyoming
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The Arizona Physician Workforce Study: Part II 1994-2005
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Section one reviews the number of physicians for each county in Arizona, physician supply and demand factors for Arizona, number practicing in rural areas, Arizona residency and training programs, and specialty data. Section two examines physician productivity. The last sections look at supply and demand forecasts. Includes survey instrument used.
Organization: Center for Health Information & Research
Author: Rimsza ME, Johnson WG, Speicher M, Grossman M
Date: 2006
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Tagged keywords: Arizona, Physicians, Supply and Demand, Trends
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Growing Pains in Paradise: Arizona's Boom
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Link: Abstract
Discusses issues impacting dentistry in Arizona, including two new dental schools, some dentists' desired relocation to urban parts of Arizona, and state regulations requiring investigations of suspected irregular practices.
Author: Murray R
Location: Journal of the American College of Dentists, 73(4):22-4
Date: 2006
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Tagged keywords: Arizona, Dentists
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Will Anyone Care? Leading the Paradigm Shift in Developing Arizona's Direct Care Workforce
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Discusses the supply and demand for long-term care workers in Arizona. Offers recommendations to increase direct care workforce supply.
Author: Citizens Work Group on the Long-Term Care Workforce
Date: 4/2005
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Tagged keywords: Arizona, Home Health Aides, Nursing Aides, Personal and Home Care Aides, Supply and Demand
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Rural Mental Health in the WICHE West: Meeting Workforce Demands through Regional Partnership
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Link: Ordering Information
Discusses the mental health workforce needs facing the states that are part of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) and what can be done to effectively meet the mental health care needs of the region. Print copy available free.
Organization: HRSA Office of Rural Health Policy
Date: 3/2005
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Tagged keywords: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Mental Health, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Rural, South Dakota, Supply and Demand, Utah, Washington, Wyoming
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The Arizona Physician Workforce Study Part I: The Number of Practicing Physicians 1992-2004
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Reviews supply, trends, specialties, and distribution of physicians in Arizona. Reports on national physician supply, factors that affect physician supply and demand, and previous studies of physician supply in Arizona.
Organization: Center for Health Information & Research
Author: Johnson WG, Rimsza ME, Garcy T, Grossman M
Date: 2005
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Tagged keywords: Arizona, National, Physicians, Supply and Demand, Trends
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The Health Care Workforce in Eight States: Education, Practice & Policy, 2004
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Additional Links: Arizona, Georgia, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oregon
Health workforce assessments for Arizona, Georgia, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Oregon, with a comparison across states. Covers state programs, financing and policies affecting health professions education, service placement and reimbursement, planning and monitoring, and licensure/regulation. Includes health workforce data for certain professions.
Organizations: HRSA Bureau of Health Professions, National Conference of State Legislatures
Date: 2004
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Tagged keywords: Arizona, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Dental Hygienists, Dentists, Education and Training, Georgia, Licensed Practical Nurses and Licensed Vocational Nurses, Licensure and Certification, Massachusetts, Michigan, Midwives, Montana, Nebraska, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Occupations, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pharmacists, Physician Assistants, Physicians, Policy, Registered Nurses, Supply and Demand
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Center for Health Information & Research: Health Care Workforce
Web site
Provides a database on licensed practicing physicians in Arizona. Includes data for Arizona allopathic and osteopathic physicians; assesses the supply and demand of physicians; and conducts surveys of physicians that are applying for license and license renewal. Part of the Arizona Medical Education Consortium.
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Tagged keywords: Allopathic Physicians, Arizona, Osteopathic Physicians
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WREB Examination
Exam
Offers an exam as part of the state licensure process for dentists and dental hygienists in fifteen states and accepted by thirty-three states in lieu of a state exam.
Organization: Western Regional Examining Board
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Tagged keywords: Alaska, Arizona, California, Dental Hygienists, Dental Occupations, Dentists, Idaho, Kansas, Licensure and Certification, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wyoming
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