Health Care | The Montgomery Institute

Overview:	TMI partners with the East Central Mississippi Health Network, the West Alabama Rural Medical Care Alliance, the Rural Alabama Health Alliance, and the University of Alabama Rural Medicine Program to identify health care access and employment needs for the region. We then work with these and other partners to develop programs and attract resources to address these needs, such as the program below.
Initiative:	U.S. Department of Labor American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Grant for Health Care Sector and Other High Growth and Emerging IndustriesBUILDING HEALTH CARE LADDER OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNEMPLOYED AND DISLOCATED WORKERS IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
Period:	March 1, 2010 through February 28, 2013
Funding:	The Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor is the grantor for the $4,519,625 grant.
Purpose:	The primary goal of this project is to improve opportunities for unemployed, dislocated, and low wage health care workers in a rural seven-county area of east central Mississippi. Health care training partners include East Central Community College, East Mississippi Community College, and Meridian Community College. Health care provider partners include Alliance Health Center, East Mississippi State Hospital, and Rush Health Systems. Program partners include the East Mississippi Area Health Education Center, the East Central Mississippi Rural Health Alliance, the Mississippi Department of Employment Security, and The Montgomery Institute. Key strategies include: 1) implement a Nursing Career Lattice Program customized from the model developed by the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL); 2) recruit, train, credential, place more unemployed and dislocated workers into Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) positions; 3) improve basic skills of participants; 4) upgrade skill levels of low wage incumbent health care assistants, incumbent CNAs, newly hired CNAs, and newly hired nurses; 5) build career ladders; 6) enhance opportunities and resources for advancement; and 7) reduce turnover and improve retention, especially among minorities. (Health Care Grant Proposal – Abridged.)
Results:	Second Quarter Report PDF Third Quarter Report PDF Fourth Quarter Report PDF