Healthcare Recruitment and Retention Forum

This event will explore healthcare recruitment and retention challenges and solutions, including generational differences in preferences for employment. Shifts in Human Resource practices – including those for Access and Functional Needs populations – will also be discussed.

Desert Willow Conference Center

4340 E Cotton Center Blvd | Phoenix, AZ 85040

September 16, 2024

The program starts at 8am and ends at 3:00pm

Breakfast will be served from 7am to 8am

Target Audience:

  • Business Office Managers
  • Chief Medical Officers
  • Chief Operating Officers
  • Chief Nursing Officers
  • Compliance Officers
  • Emergency Managers
  • Human Resources Officers
  • Quality Assurance Officers
  • Risk Assessment Officers
  • Talent Acquisition Officers
  • Community Colleges
  • Career Technical Education Programs
  • State Agency Leadership
  • State Associations and Organizations (includes the Arizona Ambulance Association, Arizona Coalition for Healthcare Emergency Response, Arizona Fire Chiefs Association, Statewide Independent Living Council, and so forth)

Objectives:

By the end of the event, participants will better understand:

01

Recruitment/retention barriers:

  1. Generational differences in communications and work preferences (examples: younger populations may not be interested in retirement benefits and desire flexible hours).
  2. Access and functional needs capacities to perform jobs, but challenges with interviewing processes.
  3. Hiring durations impacting recruitment.
  4. Housing and transportation issues impacting worker retainment.
  5. Reciprocity challenges for potential recruits already trained in another state.
  6. Other artificial or real barriers to careers.
02

Talent pipelines:

  1. Junior High School career acquaintance opportunities.
  2. Potential partnerships with career technical education programs (vocational schools) and community colleges.
03

On-the-job training programs:

  1. On-site, integrated training opportunities and mentorship programs.
  2. Apprenticeships, professional career onboarding, and internships.
  3. Transitions to practice.
04

Best practices in recruitment and retention:

  1. Incentives (examples: customized counseling services, access to child care, athletic trainers and equipment, loan forgiveness, and other).
  2. Fast-tracked certifications.
  3. Recruitment of experienced professionals for application of their skills and expertise in a new field.
  4. Military outplacement (Department of Defense SkillBridge).