INDUSTRY COUNCILS : healthcare : advanced technology : arts, media & entertainment
Healthcare Industry Council
CVEP’s Healthcare Industry Council (HIC) launched in July 2005 as a work plan objective of the Coachella Valley Economic Partnership’s Career Pathways Initiative. Funding from the James Irvine Foundation supported initial council activities and a grant from the Desert Healthcare District has provided sustaining support to maintain the council since 2007.
With one of the state's fastest growing populations, the Coachella Valley is facing a significant gap in filling the local healthcare workforce pipeline with qualified students from our own community. With a healthcare workforce of approximately 11,000 and a potential doubling of our population by the year 2030, the region requires significant and sustained planning to meet a fast growing demand for top quality healthcare workers.
Powerful Partners:
150 representatives of the valley’s key healthcare employers and educators including all three area hospitals, valley nursing homes, Riverside County Public Health, Riverside County Workforce Development and Economic Development Agency, Palm Springs Unified School District, Desert Sands Unified School District, Coachella Valley Unified School District, College of the Desert, University of California Riverside, Riverside County Office of Education, Chapman University and California State University San Bernardino.
Purpose:
The core purpose of the Healthcare Industry Council is to alleviate the healthcare workforce shortage in the valley by improving opportunities for youth to pursue and successfully complete health related educational pathways in the region’s K-12 and post secondary institutions.
The HIC’s work addresses educational and career obstacles facing youth in the valley by linking the students to educational and training programs that meet the real labor force needs and requirements of the healthcare industry.
By developing an accurate understanding of where gaps lie in the healthcare workforce, what resources exist to prepare local students to pursue those jobs and what improvements are needed in the local education and training systems, the HIC can support and implement reforms that allow a greater number of valley youth to succeed in health career pathways and achieve high wage, high demand jobs currently being filled by non local recruits.
Pathways Programs:
Brandman University, Coachella Valley Campus
Built on Chapman University's century-and-a-half legacy of academic excellence, Brandman University, formerly Chapman University College, is a separate, fully accredited university established to provide a quality education to working adults at 26 campuses throughout California and Washington as well as online. Focused on inquiry-based, patient-centered, collaborative and innovative practice, Brandman's School of Nursing and Health Professions (SNaHP) prepares health care professionals to access and evaluate evidence, and implement care based on best practices in a health care environment characterized by constant innovation. The School of Nursing and Health Professions currently offers the RN-BSN program, Doctorate of Nursing Practice (5 specializations available), Post-Master’s DNP, Master of Health Administration, and the Master of Health Risk & Crisis Communication.
http://www.brandman.edu/nursing
Dr. Reynaldo J. Carreon Jr. Academy – Kindergarten – 5th Grade
MSAP Medial Magnet School
Dr Carreon’s Medical science and technology magnet program offers students hands-on learning activities. Dr Carreon has a strong academic focus using directed teaching, flexible, leveled learning clusters, extension and intervention materials, and thematic links to medical- health science and technology based learning experiences.
http://cms.dsusd.k12.ca.us/education/school/school.php?sectiondetailid=643
Indio Middle School - JUMP Program - Junior Upcoming Medical Professionals
Pre-Med Academy
http://cms.dsusd.k12.ca.us/education/school/school.php?sectionid=12
Coachella Valley High School
Health Careers Academy
http://my.hsj.org/Schools/Newspaper/tabid/100/view/frontpage/schoolid/753/articleid/218371/
newspaperid/729/
Join_the_Health_Academy_and_dare_to_care.aspx
La Quinta High School
Health Career Academy
http://cms.dsusd.k12.ca.us/education/staff/staff.php?sectionid=615
Cathedral City High School
Health and Environmental Academy of Learning (HEAL)
http://www.cchs-heal.us/HEAL/HEAL.html
Palm Springs High School
Palm Springs Academy of Learning Medicine (PALM)
http://schools.psusd.us/ps/
Indio High School - Medical Health and Forensics Program
Health Science Academy
New – Fall 2009
http://www.ihsrajahs.com/
College of the Desert
The Coeta and Donald Barker Foundation endowed a new 14,280 square foot nursing center on the College of the Desert campus. Opened in 2009, the Barker Nursing Complex is home to the Division of Health Sciences and educates and trains students to become Registered Nurses, Vocational Nurses, Nursing Assistants, and Emergency Medical Technicians. There are 240 RN students enrolled in the program. The original nursing building was completed in 1968 and designed for 18 nursing students.
http://www.collegeofthedesert.edu/students/ss/ap/hsec/Pages/default.aspx
California State University San Bernardino – Palm Desert
CSUSB opened their new Palm Desert Health Sciences Building in 2008. CSUSB offers a 4-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) and an RN to BSN program at the Palm Desert Campus. The new building features state-of-the-art technology including a simulation lab. CSUSB's Palm Desert Campus serves about 1,200 students per year, providing third and fourth year (junior-senior) undergraduate instruction as well as many master's degrees and teaching credentials. It is the first and (thus far) only public university offering baccalaureate degrees in the Coachella Valley.
http://pdc.csusb.edu/nursing.htm
Coachella Valley Health Collaborative
The Coachella Valley Health Collaborative serves the multiple and diverse communities of the Coachella Valley through education and public advocacy and by acting as a catalyst to improve the health status of all residents and their accessibility to quality, state-of-the art health. A major goal is to improve health by increasing community collaboration and decreasing duplication and fragmentation of services.
http://pdc.csusb.edu/CVHC.htm
  
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