Milwaukee Area Healthcare Alliance

	BACH / Johns Hopkins Event In a continuing effort to establish a Systems Changes Agenda for 2011, MAHA convened the BACH/Johns Hopkins Event held on September 14, 2011 and a Legal Panel Discussion Forum held on November 16, 2011. These two events demonstrated MAHA’s commitment to evolve as an intermediary that is focused on influencing industry-wide change and improvement.
	Columbia St. Mary's Parish Nurse Program July 2011 Presented by Julia R. Means, R.N Background: In January 2011, through a grant provided by AHEC, the Parish Nurse program serving the Central City of Milwaukee was supplied with a community health worker. The community health worker, Christy Tolbert, has significantly enhanced the service that they have been able to provide to the community...
	CareerWorks Healthcare Sector Partnership The Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board (MAWIB) and the Milwaukee Area Healthcare Alliance (MAHA) created the CareerWorks Healthcare Sector Partnership. This regional healthcare intermediary has created a comprehensive healthcare training institute offering TANF and other low income participants the ongoing educational and personal support necessary to find and retain jobs in healthcare...
	From Hidden Costs to High Returns. Unlocking the Potential of Lower-Wage Workforce The overriding lesson of these interviews, simply stated is that employers who treat their basic-skill workforce as a durable asset – as a focus of quality and a source of steadily increasing skill and performance – find that their business is materially better for their effort...
	Community Health Workers Help Hospital Reach Hispanics A shift in demographics occurred in Waukesha County between 1990 and 2000 as the Hispanic population increased from 3% to 6%. A consorted effort to better understand Hispanics and to support next steps began...
	MAHA is excited to note the following achievements Establishment of an intermediary with two distinctive organizational partners who bring unique expertise to the work...
	About the Baltimore Alliance for Careers in Healthcare The Baltimore Alliance for Careers in Healthcare, Inc. was created in 2005 in response to two critical challenges: studying Baltimore's "Unemployment and Underemployment" and researching "A Current and Projected Shortage of Skilled Healthcare Workers."...
	New HTI Director The CareerWorks Healthcare Training Institute welcomes Linda Jaskowiak as HTI Director!...
	Program for Certified Nursing Assistant Careers The Milwaukee Area Healthcare Alliance (MAHA) is a partnership between the YWCA of Greater Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Area Health Education Center (Milwaukee AHEC). Responding to the growing demand for healthcare professionals in Southeast Wisconsin, MAHA has created a training program to help prepare interested and qualified individuals for Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) careers...