Healthcare Quality Summit: Building the Health Care Workforce of the Future (Part 1 of 2)

Part 2 found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDv5OIAvWQI

National Summit on Health Care Quality and Value
October 4, 2010
US Capitol Visitor Center Auditorium

Addressing Issues such as workforce diversity, health professions training and lifelong learning to support the provision of high quality care.

Moderator:
-Marcia Brand, PhD, Deputy Administrator, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), HHS

Panelists:
-Linda Aiken, PhD, Professor in Nursing, Professor of Sociology, and Director of the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
- Marie Bernard, MD, Deputy Director, National Institute on Aging
- Richard "Buz" Cooper, MD, Professor of Medicine, Leonard Davis Institute Senior Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
-Doug Cropper, President and CEO, Genesis Health System
- Jack Rowe, MD, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
- Antonia Villarruel, PhD, Associate Dean for Research and Global Affairs Professor and Nol J. Pender Collegiate Chair, University of Michigan School of Nursing

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[BilingualHealthcare]

Regarding healthworkforce diversity, there need to be more conversations around language skills. With fewer about 1% of RNs and MDs nationwide who speak medically-competent Spanish, for example, the mismatch with the ~ 10% of the patient population who speak Spanish as a first language is huge.

Assuming that interpretation will address the language barriers is naive. Translated conversations take about 50% longer than direct conversations, a time sink for RNs and MDs that impacts care.