The 2023 National Governors Association Healthcare Workforce Summit was held in Broomfield, Colorado, August 21-23, 2023. The summit brought together leaders from 18 states and territories that are part of the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) healthcare workforce project. The three-day summit was filled with peer-to-peer learning, presentations from healthcare workforce experts, and opportunities for inter-state dialogue and goal setting.
The summit concluded the NGA Center’s second year of convening this project – a year that has seen the project grow from a small cohort to a large and expansive network. During the second year of the project, the NGA Center convened a series of webinars and added new tools and resources to the newly released Healthcare Workforce Toolkit. Additionally, the NGA Center convened three regional workshops for eastern, central, and western states and territories during the summer of 2023. This summit served as a bookend for the second year of programming, leading into a third year where the NGA Center hopes to add more states and territories to this growing network.
Participating state and territory teams that were appointed by their…
