To continue the work begun at the summit, the State Office of Rural Health program at the Center for Rural Health is funding a statewide Health Care Workforce Committee that includes individuals representing state boards, state associations, medical facilities (urban, rural and Veterans Administration), long-term care, health and human services, academic and economic development. These committee members each selected a step in the pipeline to work on through conference calls to replicate efforts currently underway and to pursue newly identified strategies.
The Health Care Workforce Summit, "Planning Together to Meet North Dakota's Future Health Care Needs" explored current and projected characteristics of North Dakota's health care workforce, shared approaches taken by other states to address workforce issues, proposed immediate and long-term strategies, and informed the development of statewide planning efforts. The summit was held on December 5, 2006, at the Kelly Inn, in Bismarck, North Dakota.
