Rural Health Care Workforce
Iowa Rural Healthcare Workforce Resource Guide
Healthcare workforce continues to be a hot button issue. Iowa communities are facing challenges recruiting and retaining across the healthcare workforce population, including nursing, pharmacy, direct care, public health, and others. The Iowa Medical Society along with partner organizations are working together to assess and evaluate the current landscape and future of the healthcare workforce in Iowa.
New Release
š Iowa Healthcare Workforce Recruitment & Retention Survey Results: Physicians 5.26.26
Background
The Iowa Rural Healthcare Workforce Initiative began as a collaborative leadership initiative in 2019 by the Iowa Medical Society, Iowa Hospital Association, Iowa Pharmacy Association, and Iowa Primary Care Association, in partnership with the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services. The goal is to create unified strategic action to improve the status and condition of the healthcare workforce across disciplines, settings, and service location.
- To seek out input from local communitiesĀ about the healthcare workforce landscape
- Collaborate with healthcare workforce stakeholders and champions to identify actionable solutions by building off and amplifying existing resources and relationships.
- Create a strategic action planĀ to be collaboratively advocated to advance the healthcare workforceĀ in Iowa.
Townhalls: Where We've Been
Task Force: What We Do
- Task Force convening 3-4 times annually to collaborate and amplify existing resources on the statewide strategic action plan.
- Inclusive regional Town Hall meetings across the state: Fall 2026 dates coming soon!
- Annual Workforce Stakeholder Survey to gauge status around the state
- Recorded webinars highlighting organization successes throughout the state and other resources below
