Q&A
Staffing challenges in addiction treatment programs
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Council Member Narcisse inquires about staffing shortages and turnover within addiction treatment programs. Dr. Schatz discusses the challenges and strategies H+H is employing to address these issues.
- H+H is experiencing staffing shortages, which is a nationwide issue in healthcare
- Despite challenges, H+H reports relatively good retention rates
- Strategies to address staffing issues include:
- Regular communication with facilities to identify needs and priorities
- Creative use of current staff and merging of roles when necessary
- Providing ongoing education and training opportunities to staff
- Fostering a sense of community and support among addiction treatment professionals
Mercedes Narcisse
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Okay.
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We good?
1:08:19
Alright.
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Are you experiencing staffing shortages or high turnover within addiction treatment programs?
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And if so, how are you addressing these issues to ensure that newly funded programs are fully staffed and sustainable?
Dr. Daniel Schatz
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Thank you.
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As we mentioned, previously, this is, like, a really important piece here.
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Our initiatives won't happen if we don't have the staffing, and there's a staffing shortage nationwide.
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We're actually doing a relatively good job, and we do have pretty high retention, because of the services that we we provide, and the patients are the ones that keep us connected there.
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We talk to each of one of our facilities who are operationalizing this regularly to get updates on what their needs are, what the highest priority is, if they're having a particular staff type shortage.
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We think creatively to see, if there's a way to use current staff in other ways or, you know, merge lines together to, help with the recruitment.
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We also provide a lot of education.
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This is where that workforce training program is a lot of people take a lot of pride in what they're doing and wanna continue to grow their skills and knowledge set.
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So we're launching a lot of different, you know, ECHO kind of, learning collaboratives, self extension community healthcare outcome, learning collaboratives, where, system wide, city wide, we're all getting together and feeling like part of a community.
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That helps with retention and feels supported.
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Not too long ago, the addiction leaders kinda felt very isolated.
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We're lucky at Health and Hospital that we have a huge staff, so we try to work together as a community, learn, we're cutting edge, so we learn from each other, faster than the evidence is coming.
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And so what's working, what's not working, let's morph to what what is working.
Linda Lee
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Okay.
Mercedes Narcisse
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And just That's
Linda Lee
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Oh, so sorry.
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Yeah.
Dr. Rebecca Linn- Walton
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I had a live update of the annual totals, so I just wanted to give it to you as well since you'd asked for that before.
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So for fiscal year 25, it was 41,000,000.
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For fiscal year 26, it was 48, and then for fiscal years 27 and 28, it'll be 50,000,000 each.
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So just to share that OMB is
UNKNOWN
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Oh, so
Dr. Rebecca Linn- Walton
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dispersing all of their funds to date.
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Thanks.
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Over that 20 year period.
UNKNOWN
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Okay.