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American Hospital Association (AHA)
Health Provider Recruitment and Retention: Best Practices in Small or Rural Hospitals (2008)
This five page report provides recruitment and retention techniques utilized by 11 organizations in eight different states, and includes links to additional details about each program.

Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Center for Workforce Studies
The Complexities of Physician Supply and Demand: Projections Through 2025 (2008)
This 94 page report uses the most recently available data to project future supply and demand for physicians and concludes that a national shortage is likely driven by such factors as US population growth, aging population and doctors, and increased physician visits; the demand for doctors will outstrip the supply through at least 2025.

California Access to Care Program
Improving Recruitment and Retention of Primary Care Practitioners in Rural California (2002)
This California Policy Research Center Issue Brief describes how federal and state programs attempting to increase the number of primary care practitioners in rural areas are perceived by rural primary care practitioners and administrators.

Center for Health Workforce Planning
Nursing and Nursing Assistive Personnel Recruitment and Retention: Replicating Best Practices Across Iowa (2004)
This report shares identified best practices for recruitment and retention of nursing and nursint assitive personnel as identified by local expers in communities across Iowa.

Community Health Association of Mountain/Plains States (CHAMPS)
Region VIII Job Opportunities Bank Data Comparison Report (Annual)
CHAMPS analyzes the information contained in the interactive Job Opportunites Bank annually to provide information about recruitment efforts and fill rates at CHCs throughout the region.

Community Health Association of Mountain/Plains States (CHAMPS)
Region VIII Health Center Salary, Benefits, Vacancy, and Turnover Report (Biennial)
This report allows an analysis of data from Region VIII Community, Migrant, and Homeless Health Centers, enabling these Health Centers to determine if their salary and benefits packages are competitive in comparison with similar organizations within the region while providing comparison data on regional workforce trends.

Community Health Association of Mountain/Plains States (CHAMPS)
Region VIII CHC Recruitment and Retention Survey (2004)
This survey was created in collaboration with Region VIII State Primary Care Associations to identify a regional strategy for attracting and keeping talented professionals in community health. Data compiled from this survey can be used to develop and/or modify your own Recruitment and Retention Plans.

George Washington University School of Publich Health and Health Services
Policy Brief: Assessing the Need for On-Site Eye Care Professionals in Community Health Centers (2009)
Survey and report of health centers on barriers to evidenced-based vision services.

Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA)
Nationwide Survey of Work Environment Perceptions and Dentists’ Salaries in Community Health Centers (2005)
CHC dentists nationwide were surveyed regarding salary and job satisfaction indicators. The resulting report addresses perceptions of work environment, intentions to remain in the CHC setting, years of experience, freedom to exercise professional judgment, altruistic motivation, loan repayments, etc.

National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC)
Fact Sheet: The Struggle to Build a Strong Workforce at Health Centers (2007)
This two page fact sheet addresses health center expansion, workforce shortages, federal and state workforce programs, and other attempts to address workforce shortages.

National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC)
Access Transformed: Building a Primary Care Workforce for the 21st Century (2008)
This 40 page report estimates current staffing patterns and health centers' clinical staffing needs at the national and state level in order to enable health centers to reach the ACCESS for All America goal of reaching 30 million patients total in 2015.

The Physicians Foundation
The Physicians' Perspective: Medical Practice in 2008
Press release, Executive Summary, Key Findings, and full report and analysis for a 2008 survey examining the causes behind doctor dissatisfaction, the state of their practices, and the future of care.

Robert Graham Center
Specialty and Geographic Distribution of the Physician Workforce: What Influences Medical Student and Resident Choices? (2009)
Comprehensive study of factors affecting student and resident choices over the last 30 years; report includes data, observations, and recommendations.

Rural Health Research and Policy Centers
Satisfaction with Practice and Decision to Reloacte: An Examination of Rural Physicians (2009)
This project tracked practice locations of a cohort of physicians identified during the early stages of their medical careers supplemented with information on the current practice locations of physicians in the cohort, and with data from a follow-up survey that also asked a battery of satisfaction questions identifying factors correlated with the decision to maintain a rural practice.

University of Washington Department of Family Medicine
Training Family Physicians in Community Health Centers: A Health Workforce Solution (2008)
This report details a study of CHC and non-CHC-trained family physicians, which found that training family physicians in CHCs meets the health workforce needs of the underserved, enhances the recruitment of family physicians to CHCs, and prepares family physicians similarly to their non-CHC trained counterparts.