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Make Health Care Workforce Recommendations

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The Nevada Patient Protection Commission (PPC) is required to systematically review issues related to the health care needs of Nevada residents and the accessibility, affordability, and quality of health care. The Commission may request up to 3 legislative bill draft requests (BDRs) on or before September 1, 2024, which relate to matters within the scope of the Commission. In addition to BDRs, the Commission is required to provide recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature in the Commission’s report submitted in accordance with NRS 439.918.

In order to ensure more patients have access to quality health care, the Governor recently issued Executive Order 2024-002 directing the PPC to review and make recommendations on how to address the health care workforce shortages in the State. The Executive Order requests the PPC review available data and national best practices to develop recommendations for:

  1. Attracting and retaining talent to address health care workforce challenges in urban and rural communities;
  2. Improving access to primary care and public health services;
  3. Removing unnecessary state administrative hurdles to recruiting and retaining health care workers;
  4. Identifying sustainable funding strategies for strengthening the state’s health care workforce, which includes supporting competitive Medicaid reimbursements;
  5. Ensuring recommended strategies for increasing provider reimbursement are based on payment methodologies that incentivize and reward for better quality and value for the taxpayer dollar; and
  6. Identifying strategies for evaluating new and existing state investments in efforts to improve the capacity and size of the state’s health care workforce.

All interested parties are invited to provide recommendations on how to address the health care workforce shortages in Nevada.  You may submit your recommendations by using the online fillable form linked here or by sending an email to ppcinfo@dhhs.nv.gov. Please do not hesitate to contact Commission staff at the same email address with any questions.