IMPH Workforce for Health Taskforce report provides recommendations for redefining health care delivery in South Carolina
June 17, 2019
The South Carolina Institute of Medicine & Public Health (IMPH) convened the Workforce for Health Taskforce in April 2018, bringing together more than 60 of the state’s leading academics, state agency leadership, health care administration professionals, consumer group representatives and nonprofits, community-based organizations and philanthropists.
The Taskforce identified South Carolina-specific policy changes and health care workforce solutions needed to create sustainable, person-centered systems of health care that promote population health. On Thursday, IMPH, representatives of the Taskforce and elected officials will release their findings and recommendations for improved population health in the Palmetto State.
WHAT: IMPH Workforce for Health Taskforce Report Release
WHO: South Carolina Institute of Medicine & Public Health (IMPH)
WHEN: June 20, 2019, 1:00 p.m.
WHERE: South Carolina State House, 1st Floor
About IMPH
The South Carolina Institute of Medicine and Public Health (IMPH) is an independent, nonprofit organization with the mission to collectively inform policy to improve health and health care. IMPH serves as an informed, nonpartisan convener and provider of evidence-based information relevant to policy decisions and other actions impacting the health and well-being of all South Carolinians. IMPH seeks to achieve its mission by convening academic, governmental, organizational and community-based stakeholders around important health issues.
About the Workforce for Health Taskforce
As part of IMPH’s mission to collectively inform policy to improve health and health care in South Carolina, the Taskforce undertook a collective process to develop recommendations for state policymakers and other stakeholders regarding the future of the health care workforce in South Carolina. IMPH convened stakeholders and researched best practices and innovative approaches to care that focused on prevention, community settings and the social-environmental determinants of health and their implications for the workforce.
