Industry PArtnership
Central Texas Healthcare Partnership
Founded in early 2018 under the leadership of three Central Texas healthcare industry leaders: Baylor Scott & White Health, Ascension Seton, and St. David’s HealthCare.
Mission
The mission of the Central Texas Healthcare Partnership (CTHP) is to sustain and grow the Central Texas healthcare workforce while expanding pathways to economic mobility for local residents.
Vision
CTHP is an industry-wide partnership providing a forum for Central Texas healthcare stakeholders to come together to learn, network, identify innovative solutions that address joint workforce challenges, and realize mutually beneficial opportunities.
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Workgroups
Elected officials who govern the organization and represent CTHP memberships, including two elected officials from each hospital system, one BSN representative, one ADN representative, and one allied health representative.
An open meeting for deans, directors, and campus coordinators from local nursing programs, hospital representatives, and community members.
An open meeting for anyone interested in expanding/exploring new clinical placement opportunities. Typically, members are nursing school partners, industry partners, or community representatives.
An open meeting for nursing program clinical coordinators to review schedules and talk about clinical placements.
An open meeting that is designed to share simulation content, ideas, and collaboration between college simulation coordinators to enhance and encourage creativity through teaching in the simulation space.
An open meeting for high school CTE directors, HST teachers, industry partners, and community members to discuss issues, recruitment strategies, industry standards, and high school initiatives to get students in pipeline programs for healthcare.
This workgroup is designed to address the shortages in surgical tech through innovation, clinical placements, and program growth. This open meeting is available to both industry and education.
This workgroup is designed to address the shortages in rad tech through innovation, clinical placements, and program growth. This open meeting is available to both industry and education.
Focus Areas
Clinical Placements
We offer subscription services to our Clinical Placement Software System for nursing, surgical tech, and EMS students participating in clinical rotations. CTHP is constantly working to maximize clinical placement space in order to grow healthcare programs in the greater Austin area.
Nursing
The nursing shortage is the largest gap in employment for healthcare. The deficit of nurses grows larger every year, which is why we have workgroups and initiatives in place to increase nursing graduates in the Central Texas region. Education and Industry must come together to solve the nursing shortage and we provide that opportunity for collaboration and innovation.
Through the Central Texas Healthcare Partnership, Austin’s major hospital systems have collaborated to expand clinical opportunities, add new programs, and increase simulation usage. These efforts have more than doubled nursing graduates over the past five years, with a 20% increase in the last year alone.
Severe Shortage Careers
There are five key severe shortage careers we are currently working towards addressing. We have implemented initiatives such as apprenticeships, upskilling, and recruitment to help address the shortages in these occupation opportunities.
K-12
We are dedicated to filling the gaps in healthcare and ensuring there are enough healthcare employees to provide care to Central Texas. We have dedicated workgroups focusing on educating K12 students about careers in healthcare. Resources are available on career pathway, profiles, and industry data so that students can make an educated choice about their future.
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