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“Changing Faces, Changing Places:
Demographic Shifts in Small Towns and
Rural Regions”
A Community Approach to Prepare
Tomorrow’s Healthcare Professionals
Chris Turley, BS, MS
Director of Workforce Services
Bluegrass Area Development District
Lexington, KY
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Objectives
• Demonstrate how working collectively and
collaboratively with industry and post secondary
institutions can proactively create and promote future
opportunities for the future healthcare workforce in rural
and small towns.
• Illustrate how the local Workforce Investment Board built
a partnership of local healthcare professionals and post-
secondary institutions to proactively address the future
workforce.
• Spur potential ideas within participant’s communities
and become a catalyst to create similar collaborations.
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Bluegrass Workforce
Investment Board
Mission: To develop proactive workforce partnerships: 'Connecting
employers with employees.'
• Formed by Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998
• Plans, oversees, and evaluates workforce service delivery in the a 17 county region of Central Kentucky
• Comprised of a majority (51%) of private sector employers
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Bluegrass Healthcare
Consortium
Mission:
Partnering to provide and sustain a sufficient and
competent healthcare workforce.
Vision:
Driving change in the healthcare workforce.
Values:
Respect, Integrity, Innovation, Excellence, Commitment,
and Collaboration (Equity and Integrated).
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Consortium Goals
• Development of a nonresidential healthcare
boot camp for middle school and high
school aged students;
• Increase collaboration with educational
systems to promote healthcare careers,
degree programs, as well as anticipate and
address future workforce shortage concerns.
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MCSI Camp Background• Reason for MCSI – current shortage of qualified healthcare
workers is only predicted to grow due to retirement of the
baby boomer population. Develop opportunities to prevent
youth outmigration in the region.
• Camp curriculum developed by a subcommittee of
consortium members and Spencerian College faculty.
• Target – middle school students with interest in a healthcare professions.
• Camp goal – to introduce students to future required science
classes and various healthcare careers.
• Developed marketing brand and logo created.
• MCSI Sponsored through donations by healthcare consortium
members, industry partners and community donors.
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What is MCSI?
• A series of one-week health
career camps for middle
and high school students in
Central Kentucky
• Non-residential
• Hosted by the Bluegrass
Healthcare Consortium
• Offered at Spencerian
College (Lexington) Campus
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MCSI Purpose
To expose students to the variety of health care professions and introduce them to the relevant coursework and educational requirements leading to those careers.
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Camp Marketing
• WIB staff market the camps to:
• local middle schools
• school PTA’s
• Math & Science teachers
• local news outlets
• The camps are also marketed on the local
WIB website: www.bgwib.com.
• Flyers are distributed to the school systems
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Who can Participate?
Designed for
middle and high
school students
who are seriously
interested in
pursuing a career
in the health care
profession.
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Selection Process• Students submit a completed application
• Beginner camp applications are reviewed by a selection committee– Area healthcare professionals from the Bluegrass Health Care
Consortium
– Staff from the Bluegrass Area Development District.
– Spencerian College staff
• Beginner camp applications are ranked and selected based on specific criteria– GPA
– Extra-curricular activities
– Essay
– Letters of recommendation
• Previous students are permitted to return for the Advanced camp if they have completed the prior year’s camp requirements without a selection process
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What do the students do?
• Learn from college faculty and health professionals
• Learn firsthand what it takes to succeed as a health
professional
• Participate in a structured educational curriculum
from college professors
• Hands-on activities
• Clinical observations
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MCSI Beginners Camp
Activities for Beginner Camp, include:• CPR Training
• EKG’s
• Medical Lab
• Radiology
Field trips to…• Sullivan School of Pharmacy
• UK Minimally Invasive Surgery Lab
• UK Outreach Science Center
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MCSI Advanced CampActivities for Advanced
Camp, include: • Eyeball dissection with instruction by
an optometrist
• Fetal pig dissection
• Computer simulation exploring body
systems
Field Trips to…• Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation Hospital
• Baptist Health Lexington
• Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital
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Educational Curriculum
• Participate in a structured educational
curriculum that includes lectures and labs in
– Algebra
– Anatomy
– Physiology
– Trigonometry
– Chemistry
– Microbiology
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Educational Interactive
Sessions• Provide students with hands-on experience,
as well as observe health professionals in a clinical setting
– Interact with various area practicing healthcare professionals
– Healthcare professionals discuss their professions and highlight educational requirements
• Sessions take place in a clinical, classroom and lab setting
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Camp Funding
• BGADD staff and consortium members solicit sponsorships and seek out donations to fund the camps resulting in over $20,000 in sponsorships.
• The camp is free of charge to students who are selected.
• Food donations are provided by local restaurants and vendors.
• The camps partnered with Turning Point Technologies to pre and post test students. Turning Point Technologies provides a clicker system where students can get a unique id to answer pre loaded questions each day.
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Sponsors
Platinum Sponsors
Silver Sponsors
Bronze Sponsors
Donors Marcum & Wallace Memorial Hospital, Ad-Venture Promotions, Raising Cane’s, Morrison Healthcare Food Services, Cardinal Hill
Rehabilitation Hospital
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How the local BGADD staff fit…• Youth Services staff facilitate the
day to day operations of each camp
• Market camps to local school systems
• Check students in and out each day of camp
• Lead students to correct rooms
• Chaperone on fieldtrips and activities
• Coordinate breakfast, lunch, and snacks for students.
• Assist professors in maintaining control of students
• Solicit sponsorships and donations for the camps
• Coordinate speakers and chaperones
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Contact Information
Chris Turley, BS, MS
Director of Workforce Services
Bluegrass Area Development District
Lexington, KY