Health Careers Alliance

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The Health Careers Alliance for Southeast Michigan (HCA) is an employer-led healthcare collaborative with 39 employers of major healthcare systems in Michigan, including regional and multi-state healthcare systems, as well as many urban and rural healthcare employers providing various types and levels of care. This proven model is designed to organize healthcare industry employers to identify strategies to address common talent needs. The collaborative also convenes 20 workforce agencies and state government, as well as 19 institutes of higher education and k12 school districts. 

By working together, our healthcare employers can meet workforce needs more effectively and efficiently while helping community members access higher-quality career pathways. 
The long-term goal is to support the healthcare industry cluster with state, regional, and local employer-led collaboratives throughout Michigan. The HCA is committed to following the Talent Pipeline Management (TPM) six strategies to address its primary purpose of ensuring robust talent pipelines for critical need jobs. The TPM model organizes employers to identify strategies to address common talent needs. By working together, employers can meet workforce needs more effectively and efficiently. 

HEALTH CAREERS ALLIANCE FOCUS AREAS
Currently, HCA is focusing on several high need occupations in Southeast Michigan and has formed program teams focused following occupations:
  • Certified Nursing AssistantHCASM transparent
  • Medical Assistant
  • Sterile Processing Technicians
Each program team will examine issues related to the assigned occupation. Program teams will work to address such issues as awareness about occupations, recruitment to existing training programs, creation of new training programs if needed, and other activities related to building a strong talent pipeline for in-demand careers in healthcare.

BENEFITS OF AN EMPLOYER-LED COLLABORATIVE FOR YOUR COMPANY
  • Focuses on innovative collaborative strategies to address common workforce demands.
  • Establishes U.S. Department of Labor Registered Apprenticeship Programs for several high-demand occupations as a means for employers to advance and retain incumbent workers as well as attract new hires. 
  • Engages with K12 Career and Technical Education (CTE) Pre-Apprenticeship Programs to ensure a sustainable workforce pipeline. 
  • Enhances awareness of the brand and image of your industry.
  • Communicate your needs with one voice to all partners in the community.
  • Generates greater leverage in creating a better talent pipeline that can address the needs of all employers.
  • Addresses current and emerging skill gaps – through short-term and long-term strategies.
  • Provides a means to engage directly with industry across traditional boundaries.
  • Better align state programs, education, and training curriculum, and other resources serving employers and workers.
  • Allows for constructive dialogue directly with an industry facing critical workforce needs, as opposed to the “one-off” solutions for an individual employer/compa
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OUTCOMES OF A DEMAND-DRIVEN EMPLOYER-LED COLLABORATIVE
  • Engaged in facilitating the State of Michigan's first pre-licensure RN United States Department of Labor Registered Apprenticeship Program
  • Development of new education and training programs.
  • Review and update of current curriculum and programs for specific occupations.
  • Prioritization of incumbent worker training in targeted areas.
  • Increase in internships, co-ops, and apprenticeship opportunities.
  • Coordinated and consistent opportunities to expose youth to in-demand careers.
  • A comprehensive marketing plan to promote career opportunities within an industry.
STATE OF MICHIGAN SUPPORT FOR DEMAND-DRIVEN EMPLOYER-LED COLLABORATIVES
The State encourages sector strategies to develop demand-driven, employer-led collaboratives. These collaboratives, which can be statewide, regional, or local, identify galvanizing issues that collectively impact employers, employees and job seekers. Employers then create customized, targeted solutions that leverage the power of collective problem-solving to meet employers’ workforce needs faster and more effectively than individual employers can alone.

The HCA is an employer-led collaborative co-facilitated with the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity (LEO) and the Workforce Intelligence Network (WIN).
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  • HCA Meeting October 2025 FINAL.pdf
    document _recordid 716
  • HCA August Meeting 2025 FINAL.pdf
    document _recordid 707
  • June 2025 HCA Meeting Final.pdf
    document _recordid 702
  • April 2025 HCA Meeting FINAL.pdf
    document _recordid 701
  • February 2025 HCA Meeting FINAL.pdf
    document _recordid 700
  • HCA April Meeting 2024 FINAL.pdf
    document _recordid 698
  • HCA June Meeting 2024 FINAL.pdf
    document _recordid 697
  • HCA Feb2023 PPT FINAL.pdf
    document _recordid 695
  • HCA December Meeting 2023 FINAL.pdf
    document _recordid 694
  • HCA April Meeting 2022 FINAL.pdf
    document _recordid 693