San Mateo County Grand Jury
• 2005-2006
Issue | Background | Findings | Conclusions | Recommendations | Responses | Attachments Summary of Nursing Shortage in
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Findings and Recommendations 1 findings
F1
The Grand Jury recommends that the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors: 1.1 Actively support SB1309, which addresses the nursing shortage and is currently being considered by the California State Legislature. Response: Agree. The Board of Supervisors adopted Resolution No. 068127 in support of SB1309 at their July 11, 2006 meeting. 1.2 Continue to fund and otherwise support the Workforce Investment Board in its ongoing effort to establish the Silicon Valley Center for Health Professions and in its exploration of other efforts to partner in finding solutions for the nursing shortage. Response: Agree. This recommendation has already been implemented and is ongoing. The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors supports the Workforce Investment Board (WIB) and its efforts. The WIB will continue to seek funding and solutions for this critical growth sector of nursing. 1.3 Extend to nurses who are already employed at the San Mateo Medical Center, and who meet certain criteria, its current recruiting strategy of offering prospective nurses rental discounts at selected apartment complexes. Response: Agree. The discounts at Westlake Village Apartments in Daly City and Hillside Gardens in San Mateo are available to current nursing staff as well as prospective nurse recruits. All new nurses at the Medical Center are made aware of the rental discounts and the discounts are advertised once a year in the San Mateo Medical Center newsletter which is distributed to all Medical Center staff.
Related Recommendations (1)
R1
The Grand Jury recommends that the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors: 1.1. Actively support SB1309, which addresses the nursing shortage and is currently being considered by the California State Legislature. 1.2. Continue to fund and otherwise support the Workforce Investment Board in its ongoing effort to establish the Silicon Valley Center for Health Professions and in its exploration of other efforts to partner in finding solutions for the nursing shortage. 1.3. Extend to nurses who are already employed at the San Mateo County Medical Center, and who meet certain criteria, its current recruiting strategy of offering prospective nurses rental discounts at selected apartment complexes.
Additional Recommendations 3
These recommendations are not explicitly linked to specific findings.
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R2The Grand Jury recommends that the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors: The Grand Jury recommends that the Board of Trustees of the San Mateo County Community College District: 2.1. Continue its support of the Chancellor and the community colleges in their ongoing effort to establish the Silicon Valley Center for Health Professions. 2.2. Explore alternate avenues for supplementing the salaries of nursing faculty.
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R3The Grand Jury recommends that the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors: The Grand Jury recommends that the Peninsula Health Care District: 3.1. Continue to fund nurses’ training by the additional step of supplementing the salaries of nursing professors so that pay will be competitive. 3.2. Take immediate steps to extend to nurses its current practice of helping doctors obtain loans for housing.
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R4The Grand Jury recommends that the Peninsula Health Care District: The Grand Jury recommends that the Sequoia Healthcare District implement a policy of helping nurses obtain loans for housing. 9
Conclusions 1
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CL1 Page 8Despite commendable efforts by various institutions to deal with the nursing shortfall, the problem remains a major one. The Grand Jury concludes that because the local nursing shortage is a community problem, solving it requires a community solution. Individual colleges, health care districts, and the Medical Center cannot resolve the problem alone. It will take concerted, cooperative efforts among County agencies; between public, private, and corporate bodies; and throughout the region. Broad, comprehensive planning will prove both more economical and more enduring than such stopgap measures as employing traveling nurses and doing long distance recruiting. 8
No Responses Found 1
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