Research Alerts

HWTAC disseminates the work of all of the HRSA-sponsors health workforce research centers (HWRCs) across the country. This Research Alert archive houses technical reports, research and policy briefs, journal articles, and other resources produced by the HWRCs. You can search the Research Alerts archive by a specific topic or research center. Search results are listed chronologically, with the most recent resources appearing first.

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Measuring the Financial Contribution of Peer Providers

Authors: Timothy Bates | Susan Chapman | Maria Gaiser | Jessica Buche

Topics: Behavioral Health, Emerging Models and Innovations

June 10, 2022

This report discusses a study that analyzes peer provider staffing data and the financial implications for organizations that use a peer services model to provide care. This study was conducted jointly by the UCSF Health Workforce Research Center on Long-Term Care and the Behavioral Health Workforce Research Center (BHWRC) at the University of Michigan.

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Prescribing Patterns in Nursing Home Residents Living With Dementia by Specialty and Provider Type

Authors: Ulrike Muench | Matthew Jura | Zoe Samson | Todd Monroe | Joanne Spetz

Topics: Behavioral Health, Long-Term Care

May 31, 2022

This report examines prescribing patterns for common psychiatric medications and for opioid and non-opioid analgesics in long-term nursing home residents with dementia by clinician specialty and provider type.

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Characteristics of Multiple Job Holders in Long-term Care

Authors: Timothy Bates | Joanne Spetz | Laura Wagner

Topics: COVID-19, Long-Term Care

March 23, 2022

This report examines the rates of multiple job holding and characteristics of multiple job holders in the long- term care workforce.

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Utilization of Community Paramedics to Respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Authors: Janet Coffman | Lisel Blash

Topics: COVID-19, Emerging Models and Innovations, Staffing

March 17, 2022

This report describes models of community paramedic practice that have been utilized in the US during the pandemic and discusses changes in law and regulation that would facilitate more widespread adoption of these models.

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Workforce Displacement and Re-employment During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Direct Care Workforce Recruitment and Retention

Authors: Stephen McCall | Kezia Scales | Joanne Spetz

Topics: COVID-19, Nursing, Staffing, Workforce Demand, Workforce Supply

October 20, 2021

This report explores how direct care workers and workers from similar entry-level occupations became unemployed during the COVID-19 pandemic; to what extent the skills of displaced workers align with those of direct care occupations; and how many displaced workers re-entered the workforce (including into direct care jobs) within the following year.

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