Hawaii/Pacific Basin AHEC completes initial physician workforce assesment.

The Hawaii/Pacific Basin Area Health Education Center (AHEC) has established a database of actively practicing non-military physicians in Hawaii. Hawaii is approximately 600 physicians short of what a similar community has on the mainland, and this could grow to 1,600 in 10 years.

Estimated shortages of primary care physician assistants and nurse practitioners add to the shortage of care providers.

Click here to view the 2011 Workforce Report

For questions and input, please contact Dr. Kelley Withy at withy@hawaii.edu.

6/29/2010 Hawaii Physician Workforce Summit

• Health Care Reform: Implications for the Supply, Demand and Use of Physicians by Edward Salsberg
• Health Reform 2010: Economics of a Reformed Health Workforce by Len Nichols
• Current and Future Demand for Physicians in the U.S. and Hawaii (preliminary findings) by The Lewin Group
• Hawaii Physician Supply & Potential Solutions to Growing Shortages by Kelley Withy and David Sakamoto

AHEC Data:

• Statewide Physician Shortage Estimates as of March 2010
• Hawaii Physician Workforce: Supply/Demand Status 2010 (By County)
• Hawaii Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant Shortage

Solutions:

• Seeking Solutions, Forming Partnerships: Hawaii Physician Workforce Summit
• Supply Workgroup Summary
• Demand Workgroup Summary
• Support Workgroup Summary
• Event Summary

Data

2010 Physicial Estimates*