• The Healthcare Workforce Crisis: A Summit on the Future of Primary Care in Rural and Urban America
  August 10-12
  Washington, DC
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• The Adequacy of Pharmacist Supply: 2004 to 2030, the pharmacy vacancy rate has fallen from 8 percent in 2000 to approximately 5 percent in 2004, equivalent to a shortage of about 10,400 pharmacists nationwide. (published December 2008)

• Patient Navigator Outreach and Chronic Disease Prevention Demonstration to improve health care outcomes for people with cancer and/or other chronic diseases by helping them make their way through the health care system.
  

• Health Workforce Information Center a comprehensive online library that will help you find and stay up-to-date on health workforce issues and opportunities.

• HRSA Bureau of Health Professions 2008: Envisioning the Future of Health Professions (MOV - 45MB)
  

• BHPr All Programs Meeting 2008 (MOV - 25MB)
  
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Mission: Increase the population's access to health care by providing national leadership in the development, distribution and retention of a diverse, culturally competent health workforce that can adapt to the population's changing health care needs and provide the highest quality of care for all.

Vision: A nation in which universal access and quality health care are provided, health workforce shortages are eliminated, health disparities are overcome, prevention is emphasized and health outcomes are optimal for all.

The right people, with the right skills, in the right places, to achieve the right health outcomes.