Michigan Healthcare Workforce Plan
2025 Michigan Healthcare Workforce Plan
MHC developed the 2025 Michigan Healthcare Workforce Plan to address long-standing and evolving challenges. Supported by the Michigan Health Endowment Fund, this effort aims to guide the implementation of data-driven solutions to our state's healthcare workforce challenges.
The Workforce Plan is built upon a strategic framework consisting of four key pillars:
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Grow Interest in Healthcare Careers – Expanding career readiness opportunities for students through enhanced K-12 career development, increased job shadowing and observation experiences, and targeted student engagement programs.
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Improve Access to Healthcare Education – Removing barriers to healthcare education by expanding collaborative programs, increasing the availability of healthcare apprenticeships, and improving transfer pathways to make healthcare education more accessible and affordable.
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Increase Experiential Education Capacity – Addressing the shortage of clinical placement sites and educators by expanding the use of alternative training sites, supporting and incentivizing clinical faculty and preceptors, and collecting data to better understand and utilize clinical capacity.
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Explore Recruitment and Retention Strategies – Encouraging partnerships that build local talent pipelines, improving access to career development opportunities for all healthcare workers, and better understanding turnover using data.
Supplemental Resources
Resources supplementing the Workforce Plan include the Michigan Healthcare Workforce Index, providing a scope of Michigan’s healthcare workforce shortage for 36 occupations; an online workforce initiatives database; and occupation briefing webpages to provide key Michigan-specific data and insights on each occupation.
Learn more about healthcare profession policies, workforce data, wages, career pathways, and more.
A comprehensive ranking of the "health" of 36 healthcare occupations.
Learn more about innovative healthcare workforce initiatives happening across Michigan.
“Michigan stands at a critical crossroads,” said Craig Donahue, President and CEO of MHC. “Our aging population is driving increased health care demand, our current healthcare workforce is approaching a retirement cliff, and we continue to struggle getting people into the workforce pipeline. The time for decisive action is now to ensure quality health care remains accessible for all Michiganders. We see the Workforce Plan as an opportunity to engage stakeholders in the work of implementing solutions."
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