HHS Spending Millions to Train Workforce
HHS has awarded $84 million to 16 universities and junior colleges “to support training and development of more than 50,000 new health IT professionals.”
Workforce Award recipients, by program area, include:
Community College Consortia Program ($36 million):
The Community College Consortia Program provides assistance to five regional recipients to establish a multi-institutional consortium within each designated region. The five regional consortia will include 70 community colleges in total. Each college will create non-degree training programs that can be completed in six months or less by individuals with appropriate prior education and/or experience. First year grant awards are estimated at $36 million. An additional $34 million is available for year two funding of these programs after successful completion of a mid-project evaluation.
| Institution |
Amount of Award |
| Bellevue College Bellevue, Washington |
$ 3,364,798 |
| Cuyahoga Community College District Cleveland, Ohio |
$ 7,531,403 |
| Los Rios Community College District Sacramento, California |
$ 5,435,587 |
| Pitt Community College Winterville, North Carolina |
$10,901,009 |
| Tidewater Community College Norfolk, Virginia |
$ 8,492,793 |
Curriculum Development Center ($10 million):
The Curriculum Development Centers will develop educational materials for key health IT topics to be used by the members of the Community College Consortia program. The materials will also be made available to institutions of higher education across the country. One of the centers will receive additional assistance to act as the National Training and Dissemination Center (NTDC) for the curriculum materials.
| Institution |
Amount of Award |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, Alabama |
$1,820,000 |
| The Trustees of Columbia University New York City, New York |
$1,820,000 |
| Duke University Durham, North Carolina |
$1,820,000 |
| Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland |
$1,820,000 |
| Oregon Health & Science University Portland, Oregon |
$2,720,000* |
*(Will also receive the NTDC awards)
University-Based Training Programs ($32 million):
The University-based training programs will produce trained professionals for vital, highly specialized health IT roles. Most trainees in these programs will complete intensive courses of study in 12-months or less and receive a university-issued certificate of advanced training. Other trainees supported by these grants will study toward masters’ degrees.
| Institution |
Amount of Award |
| The Trustees of Columbia University New York City, New York |
$3,786,677 |
| University of Colorado Denver College of Nursing Denver, Colorado |
$2,622,186 |
| Duke University Durham, North Carolina |
$2,167,121 |
| George Washington University District of Columbia |
$4,612,313 |
| Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana |
$1,406,469 |
| Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland |
$3,752,512 |
| University of Minnesota Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota |
$5,145,705 |
| Oregon Health & Science University Portland, Oregon |
$3,085,812 |
| Texas State University San Marcos, Texas |
$5,421,205 |
Competency Examination Program ($6 million):
This program will support the development and initial administration of a set of health IT competency examinations. The program will create an objective measure to assess basic competency for individuals trained in short-term, non degree health IT programs and for members of the workforce seeking to demonstrate their competency in certain health IT workforce roles.
| Institution |
Amount of Award |
| Northern Virginia Community College Annandale, Virginia |
$6,000,000 |
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