The Center for Health Workforce Studies (CHWS), housed in the Department of Family Medicine in [...]
Five reports on the 2021 physician workforce across the WWAMI states of Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, [...]
UW Medicine’s The Huddle highlighted an op-ed in the New England Journal of Medicine on tackling implicit bias [...]
Insurance navigators help individuals sign up for health insurance coverage through the Health Insurance Marketplace. The [...]
UW CHWS research scientist, Paula Kett, PhD, MPH, RN was interviewed as part of an investigative report [...]
The June edition of our newsletter is now available! Upcoming events, research highlights, and important [...]
UW CHWS recently released the March 2022 edition of our newsletter! Highlights include our work [...]
Entering the third year of the pandemic, hospitals and long-term care facilities continue to have [...]
Travel agencies that staff nurses around the country are reportedly paying as much as twice [...]
Boosting the behavioral health workforce is cited as one of four key ways lawmakers want [...]
AcademyHealth member Bianca Frogner, with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, highlighted data on [...]
Included are detailed infographics which describe the complexity of Washington’s mental health landscape, including real-world [...]
The health care industry has lost thousands of workers since the beginning of the pandemic [...]
While not an instant fix for deep problems in Washington’s behavioral health care system, a [...]
The productivity of nurse practitioners and physician assistants in primary care, measured by number of [...]
UW CHWS recently released the October 2021 edition of our newsletter! Highlights include our work [...]
The COVID-19 pandemic has added pressure to existing long-term care workforce challenges in Washington state. [...]
Public health is the foundation of American communities. But for years, state and local health [...]
The diversity of the health workforce and their role in the delivery of equitable health [...]
Billions of dollars have been invested in the US health workforce under the American Rescue [...]
Senior Deputy Director Sue Skillman was a guest panelist discussing workforce policy for a new [...]
Congratulations to Senior Deputy Director Sue Skillman who received the Research Excellence Award from the [...]
Nine Health Workforce Research Centers (HWRCs) funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) [...]
In the latest edition of Tradeoffs.org’s Research Corner, Director Bianca Frogner breaks down a new [...]
UW CHWS recently released the June 2021 edition of our newsletter highlighting the effect of [...]
CHWS investigator Dr. Marieke van Eijk’s research on the important role of health insurance navigators [...]
Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) programs contribute to a significant share of the registered nurse [...]
Director Bianca Frogner shares her personal fears about nursing home care and discusses ways by [...]
UW CHWS recently released the February 2021 edition of our newsletter highlighting the effect of [...]
In a MedPAGE Today Op-ed, UW CHWS Director Frogner and Senior Deputy Director Skillman discuss [...]
Our new report, produced with the Washington Workforce Board, recommends ways to strengthen Washington state’s [...]
Director Bianca Frogner and Senior Deputy Director Sue Skillman discuss the importance of tracking unemployment [...]
This updated brief shows the number of both initial and continuing unemployment claims in Washington [...]
Four exhibits show the rate of unemployment claims filed by health care workers from February [...]
Nursing homes and primary care clinics have both struggled with staffing due to COVID. A [...]
California is the second state this year to pass a law that relaxes physician supervisory [...]
The Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM), a new value-based reimbursement plan under Medicare, is set [...]
UW CHWS has published two complementary studies on the size and scope of the pharmacist [...]
Updated maps through September 2020 available Four exhibits show the rate of unemployment claims filed [...]
This brief shows the number of both initial and continuing unemployment claims in Washington State [...]
Director Bianca Frogner and Senior Deputy Director Sue Skillman co-author a Health Affairs blog post [...]
This summary shows initial unemployment insurance claims in Washington State for specific health care related occupations [...]
UW CHWS recently released the June 2020 edition of our quarterly newsletter highlighting the [...]
Home health agencies provide critical nursing and therapy services to over three million Medicare beneficiaries [...]
The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the tremendous sacrifice that Americans are willing to make to protect [...]
This figure summarizes data on initial unemployment claims in Washington State for selected health occupations [...]
This Rapid Response Brief includes descriptions of the supply, distribution, education pathways, as well as [...]
Director Bianca Frogner will be a keynote speaker during the Worker Memorial Day at the [...]
Research led by Director Bianca Frogner on the risk that home care workers face during [...]
This summary shows initial unemployment insurance claims in Washington State for health care related occupations [...]
This summary describes initial unemployment claims in Washington State for select health care related occupations from [...]
Four exhibits show the rate of unemployment claims filed by health care workers from January [...]
We are sad to report that the founder and long time Director of the University [...]
In its 8th round of data collection, Washington’s Sentinel Network added questions to capture health [...]
On May 6, 2020, Director Bianca Frogner is moderating an esteemed panel of health economists [...]
Director Bianca Frogner quoted by Vox on the need to include health care support staff [...]
The figure shows initial unemployment claims in Washington State for healthcare related occupations through 4/11/2020 [...]
This summary compares weekly initial employment claims in Washington State for specific health-related occupations.
Director Bianca Frogner interviewed by Medscape on the need to systematically track COVID-19 infections and [...]
UW CHWS recently published a special edition of our regular newsletter detailing responses to COVID-19. [...]
Workforce strategies to help develop, deploy and replenish the health workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic [...]
Bianca K. Frogner, PhD, Director of the Center for Health Workforce Studies at the University [...]
Dr. Frogner joins Dr. Joanne Spetz, Associate Director of Research at Healthforce Center at UCSF, [...]
[box title=””]Bianca K. Frogner, PhD Director of the Center for Health Workforce Studies Associate Professor, [...]
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is highlighting stress points in the U.S. health system. [...]
Bianca K. Frogner, PhD, Director of the Center for Health Workforce Studies and Associate Professor [...]
The CHWS team has had a very eventful year, with new hires and new collaborators [...]
Sue Skillman and the Workforce board team consisting of Nova Gattman, Liz Coleman & Julia [...]
The study “Physical Therapy as the First Point of Care to Treat Low Back Pain: [...]
Our UW CHWS and WWAMI RHRC team recently attended the 2018 NW Rural Health Conference [...]
Drs. Frogner and Spetz discuss the potential impact that proposed policy changes might have on [...]
One of the biggest future crises in U.S. health care is about to collide with [...]
CHWS Deputy Director Sue Skillman explains health care's transition from a volume-based system to a [...]
