Causes for health inequity for residents living in rural communities across the United States are multifaceted. For the state of Hawaiʻi, improving the immediate health care access, quality, and affordability relies on comprehensive health care policies and the hiring and retention of medical staff. This presentation will focus on research that focused on workforce solutions to recruit, improve, and engage rural healthcare staff turnover in Hawai’i.
At the completion of this activity, the learner will be able to:
Recognize the systemic issues affecting rural health communities in accessing health care today
Explain how the unique environmental, economic, and cultural factors of Hawai’i may impact health care access
Identify how job embeddedness may prepare rural communities in the retention of health care employees
Yvonne Yim is a haumana (student) of Hawai’i. She was raised in Pearl City, Oahu and graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa with a Masterʻs Degree in Social Work, the University of Arizona with her PhD in Organizational Leadership and Development, and this spring received a Certificate in Peace Studies from the Matsunaga Institute for Peace from the University of Hawaiʻi. Her academic research interests are focused from the manao (insight) of persons living in rural communities in Hawai’i. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Hawai’i with over 25 years of experience working in the islands in: acute health care, hospice, community health, and higher education. Currently, Yvonne and her husband are living in Japan where she provides behavioral health counseling to our US Navy personnel and also working on various projects that may elevate the knowledge of social workers in Japan. She is an avid marathon runner and hula haumana of Ka Pa Nani o Lilinoe and volunteers with the (Boy) Scouts of America, American Red Cross, Aali’i Mentoring programs.
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