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- 0:00Speaker A: On Thursday, June 5 from 10am to 3pm at Dell' Arte, located at 131 H Street in Blue Lake. The county of Humboldt's Human Resources Department, in partnership with the Humboldt Health foundation and Humboldt Area foundation and Wild Rivers Community foundation, invites the community to an important public event, Healthcare in Humboldt, exploring the downstream effects and community impacts of healthcare access and quality challenges. It will explore how limited access to healthcare affects Humboldt County's economy, workforce and overall community well being. Humboldt county is designated as a health provider shortage area by the U.S. department of Health and Human Services, with the entire Redwood coast region also classified as a mental health provider shortage area. Dr. Jeremy Michael Clark, the diversity, Equity and inclusion and organizational development Manager, speaks on why the event was created in.
- 0:57Speaker B: Terms of what inspired this event. I was going through or exit survey data so in other words, analyzing why employees leave county employment and one of the themes that really jumped out in that process was this lack of health care access and quality. And so because of that we have been unable to retain some pretty key contributors and some pretty key roles organizationally. And that obviously has some service delivery implications and just generally is not good for the community when when public service can't retain can attract and retain talent. So it's so then I started thinking because I also have the pleasure of serving on the community board for Providence and St. Joseph's and so that is an issue that the team there really and the issue being healthcare recruitment and retention take very seriously and have deployed a number of strategies to increase recruitment and retention. And so I sort of looked at that and felt like between my dual roles, my county responsibilities and also the work that I do at Providence that I sort of was able to view this issue through multiple perspectives. And I felt like an event like this would probably be a good way to go.
- 2:28Speaker A: This event will offer an in depth data informed look at how healthcare shortages create ripple effects throughout the community affecting everyday residents. The program will feature two panel discussions, panel one being the downstream community impacts from 10 to 12pm and panel two the disparate health outcomes from 1 to 3pm this will be moderated by Humboldt County Human Resources Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and organizational development manager, Dr. Jeremy Michael Clark, Catherine Lorenzo, county of Humboldt Human Resources Program Manager and Rosam Ruiz Cortez, the County of Humboldt's Organization, Development and effectiveness Administrative analysis. Analysis has more to say.
- 3:11Speaker C: Our intent, right, was to inform the audience about this very complex issue, right? The limited healthcare access, but also to center the human experience, right? Because we are human resources, we want the conversation to be founded, owned or cemented on data, but we want to humanize it in person.
- 3:45Speaker A: Attendance is limited due to venue capacity. Registration is required for all in person attendees, including members of the press. To register, Please go to kmud.org to find information on how to register for the event. There you will also be able to access panel live stream links. This event will be live streamed by Access Humble and will provide opportunities for virtual audience engagement. To watch the livestream, visit YouTube.com accesshumbolt or tune in to Optimum Channel 8 from home. No registration is required to view the livestream or broadcast. A recording will be available after the event on Access Humboldt's YouTube page.