Oct 14, 2025Workforce Lunch & Learn Series – Part 2

Oct. 14 | 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
6-Part Virtual Workforce Lunch & Learn Series
Part 2 – Operational Vacancy: An Effective Tool for Workforce Planning

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Series Overview

OHA is committed to addressing hospital workforce issues through advocacy, education and collaboration. This 6-part virtual “Workforce Lunch & Learn” series offers insights into the current health care workforce landscape and will be used as a time to network, share best practices and work together to identify innovative solutions.

Here is a quick overview of the content that will be shared throughout the series:

• Strategies for success in onboarding health care quality professionals.
• Intentional workforce planning, strategic sourcing methods and actionable strategies to build sustainable health care talent pipelines.
• Strategies to cultivate the next generation of diverse health care leaders and ensure a resilient and equitable health care workforce, through mentorship, accessible educational pathways, inclusive workplace cultures and organizational innovation.
• Workforce planning metrics and the impact of operational vacancies on staffing efficiency, premium pay and patient care.
• Workforce challenges and the innovative strategies, cultural transformation and leadership approaches needed to overcome them and drive workforce innovation in health care.
• Health care staffing, hiring practices and generational dynamics in the workforce.

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Learning Objectives

Nurse leaders and human resources professionals constantly measure vacancy rates as a measure of staffing effectiveness.  However, this is only half the picture.  Attend this session and learn how to incorporate operational vacancy into your metrics and improve your staffing effectiveness.

• Describe the difference between traditional vacancy rate reporting and operational vacancy rate reporting.
• Demonstrate understanding of the operational vacancy reporting standard operational procedures.
• Discuss how to incorporate operational vacancy in your work setting.

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Who Should Attend

Human resources, chief nursing officer and nursing staff, chief medical officer/VPMA, patient care staff, Emergency Department staff and leadership, patient advocates/liaisons, risk managers and quality staff.

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Presenter

Bill Lecher | Director of Nursing | Health Carousel

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CE Credits

DISCLOSURES: The presenters have indicated no potential or actual conflicts of interest related to the presentation.

The Ohio Hospital Association (OLN-0017-P) is approved as a provider unit of continuing education by the Ohio Board of Nursing through the approver unit at the Ohio League for Nursing (OBN-006-92) and provider unit status is valid through June 2026.

Each webinar with this series has been approved for 1.0 CHHR CE Credits, 1.0 HRCI CE Credits and 1.0 SHRM CE Credits.

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Registration

This series is complimentary to all OHA members. Registration for each session is required.

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6-Part Series

Sept. 9 | Part 1 – Workforce Innovation in Health Care: Exploring Market Trends and Leadership Strategies

Nov. 11 | Part 3 – Steps to Success as a Health Care Quality Professional

Jan. 13 | Part 4 – Empowering the Next Generation of Health Care Heroes: Diversity, Mentorship and Innovation

Feb. 10 | Part 5 – Innovation Global Recruitment: OhioHealth’s Success with International Pipelines

March 10 | Part 6 – Predicting and Hiring for Attrition, A Best Practice for Recruitment and Retention for Nurse and Human Resources Leader