Growing demand for long-term care services, new care models, rising LTC costs, and current and projected shortages of LTC workers create an urgent need for new LTC workforce research and policy development. The UCSF Health Workforce Research Center on Long-Term Care builds upon a long history of workforce research at UCSF.
Established in 2013, the Center is one of nine programs funded by multi-year Cooperative Agreements from the U.S. National Center for Health Workforce Analysis. The other awardees are The George Washington University (two programs), University of North Carolina, University of Washington (two programs), University of Michigan, and University at Albany (two programs). The center had its award renewed twice, most recently in 2022.
The Center actively engages all of UCSF’s health profession schools, drawing on UCSF’s breadth of LTC health policy researchers. Additional expertise comes from collaborations with colleagues from PHI, the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, University of California at Davis, and other organizations, and is guided by an expert panel of LTC researchers, state and federal policy makers, with community advocacy groups.
We conduct research on LTC labor market developments, outcomes and impacts of employment and training policies, and report on LTC labor trends. With regularly produced publications, we actively engage with national, regional, state, and local employment and training organizations, as well as professional associations, to disseminate our findings to the national and local media. We also will provide data and information for federal and state agencies, practice organizations, and policy leaders to inform the development of workforce policy.