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Item Indiana Health Workforce Summit 2024: Summary Documents(Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research & Policy, 2024-05-10) Boustani, Becky; Medlock, Courtney; Bott, MadisonRural Health This brief outlines key takeaways from Indiana’s 2024 Health Workforce Summit including stakeholders’ health workforce priorities and potential next steps to enhance Indiana’s health workforce into the future. It also highlights important insights from a targeted discussion on the unique challenges and opportunities experienced in Indiana’s rural communities. Behavioral & Mental Health This brief outlines key takeaways from Indiana’s 2024 Health Workforce Summit including stakeholders’ health workforce priorities and potential next steps to enhance Indiana’s health workforce into the future. It also highlights important insights from a targeted discussion on Indiana’s behavioral and mental health professionals, including social workers, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, addiction counselors, psychologists, psychiatrics, psychiatric APRNs, and other dedicated behavioral and mental health professions. Primary Care: Maternal & Child This brief outlines key takeaways from Indiana’s 2024 Health Workforce Summit including stakeholders’ health workforce priorities and potential next steps to enhance Indiana’s health workforce into the future. It also highlights important insights from a targeted discussion on Indiana’s maternal and child health-focused healthcare workforce, including obstetrician/gynecologists, pediatricians, midwives, and other dedicated professionals, including long-term services and supports for pediatric patients. Primary Care: Adults and Geriatrics This brief outlines key takeaways from Indiana’s 2024 Health Workforce Summit including stakeholders’ health workforce priorities and potential next steps to enhance Indiana’s health workforce into the future. It also highlights important insights from a targeted discussion on family medicine and other general adult providers, geriatricians, and other health workforce members providing primary care and supportive services to adult populations, including long-term services and supports for adults.Item Test Document(bowen center, 2024-05-09) Tester, TestItem Updated Test Document(bowen center, 2024-05-09) Tester, TestItem The Landscape Assessment: Employer Perceptions of the Post-secondary Pipeline to Practice(Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy, 2024-02-02) Tobin, Mykayla; Ge, Yan; Medlock, Courtney; Maxey, HannahThis report contains an overview of the engagement strategy and feedback received from Indiana behavioral health workforce’s major employers (community mental health centers and hospitals).Item The State of Indiana’s Health Workforce: 2023(2023-10-31)This report contains license and supplemental data for professions outlined in Indiana Code 25-1-2-10. This report fulfills the annual reporting requirements outlined in this statute.Item Longitudinal Assessment of Health Care Professional Practicing in Hospital Settings(Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research & Policy, 2023-09-08) Vaughn, Sierra; Tobin, MykaylaThe Bowen Center was commissioned by the Indianapolis Patient Safety Coalition to identify health care professionals who reported working in multiple practice settings, with one of those settings being a hospital. The purpose of this analysis was to inform initiatives aimed to standardized medication kits.Item Longitudinal Assessment of Health Care Professional Practicing in Hospital Settings(Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy, 2023-09-08) Vaughn, Sierra; Tobin, MykaylaThe Bowen Center was commissioned by the Indianapolis Patient Safety Coalition to identify health care professionals who reported working in multiple practice settings, with one of those settings being a hospital. The purpose of this analysis was to inform initiatives aimed to standardized medication kits.Item National Landscape of Strategies for Health Workforce Development(Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy, 2023-04-11) Maxey, Hannah; Medlock, CourtneyItem Indiana's Maternity Care Workforce Brief(Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy, 2023-03-31) Boustani, Becky; Medlock, Courtney; Maxey, HannahAccess to quality healthcare at every stage of pregnancy is vital to maternal and infant health. Indiana’s Maternity Care Workforce brief spotlights key findings of the physicians and advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) that make up the maternity care workforce. Highlights include geographic distributions of providers and labor & delivery resources as well as Maternity Care Target Areas (MCTA) in Indiana.Item An Assessment of Indiana's Maternity Care Workforce: 2022 Report(Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy, 2023-02-28) Dickinson, Analise; Vaughn, Sierra; Maxey, HannahHealth professionals who provide perinatal and labor and delivery (L&D) services are essential to ensuring access to care for pregnant women, a population that -typically requires specialized services. Understanding the availability of maternity care is essential to supporting maternal and infant health and improving risks associate with mortality. Most maternity care providers are generally comprised of physicians who specialize in obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) or family medicine. In addition to physicians, advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) who collaborate with physicians, such as certified nurse midwives (CNMs), nurse practitioners (NPs), and clinical nurse specialists (CNSs), may provide maternity care services. This assessment provides details of the physicians and APRNs who provide maternity care services in Indiana.