Nursing and allied health education programs are not graduating enough people to meet the current demand,
let alone the expected future demand, for health care workers.
Staffing shortages in health care are persistent and expected to grow as baby boomers age and the demand for health care
grows.
By 2010, 40% of the population will be over 65 years of age, and as baby boomer healthcare workers retire, the health care workforce will be constrained even further.
HealthcareWorks connects health care facilities with community colleges to create an education model—The Health Care Learning
Network—for front-line health care workers. It builds system capacity to increase the health care workforce and enable low-income
workers to earn enough to support their families.