Specifications include, but are not limited to: 1. Manage a recruitment and retention program to increase the availability of Primary Health Care Professionals for Rural Primary Heath Care Act (RPHCA) facilities, compile vacancy lists and make referrals. Contractor will: a. Recruit and facilitate placement of health care professionals in health care underserved areas of the state. b. Provide a narrative and spreadsheet table which compares current reporting period recruitment and retention activities with the same period last year. The table must include number of: General Leads, Applications, Referrals, and Placements by Health Care Professionals. Also, provide number of current health care vacancies identified for the current reporting period. c. Document efforts to recruit Primary Care Health Professionals by: i. Accounting for contacts made with individuals, groups, and training programs ii. Include an enumeration of individual contacts, applications made as defined by receipt of resumes, referrals made to eligible practice sites, and a tally of hires made by the practice sites. 2. Conduct a comprehensive Primary Care recruitment program at local, state, regional, national, and international levels. Activities will include: a. Participation in the National Rural Recruitment and Retention Network (3RNET) that is a provider driven web-based sourcing methodology, b. Engaging with the 3RNET for collaborative purchasing of advertising in primary care written and electronic job announcements. c. Participation in combined presentations, such as the annual American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) meetings and similar national venues to highlight New Mexico practice opportunities. d. Participation in health professional electronic job boards for sourcing, routine, identifying potential eligible health care providers. e. By invitation, participate in monthly/quarterly training programs at New Mexico colleges and universities to include presentations at Primary Care educational programs. f. Provide a monthly report on the number and type of health professional vacancies by county throughout the state. g. Utilization of a health professional software to match community openings with providers in a culturally competent way. h. Conduct outreach to Primary Care physicians through participation in at least three regional job fairs, such as CareerMD. i. Daily response and referral of all health professionals who contact the Contractor about practice locations in the State. j. Daily provision of requested information about New Mexico health professional loan for service and loan repayment programs. k. Coordination of recruitment efforts with the New Mexico Primary Care Association (NMPCA), the New Mexico Medical Society, the New Mexico Hospital Association, and the New Mexico Dental Association; and, l. Align recruitment and retention efforts with Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP), Physician Assistant (PA), Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) and other primary care training programs, as well as associated trade associations. 3. Conduct targeted recruitment activities of health care professionals participating in the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) and New Mexico Health Service Corps (NMHSC), and Foreign Physicians holding J-1 Visas. Contractor will: a. Provide a narrative and spreadsheet table describing the number and type (NHSC, NMHSC, J-1) of health care professional recruited to New Mexico. The narrative must include where, when and by whom the health care professional was recruited to New Mexico. b. Collaborate with Agency staff in appropriate site designations for NHSC loan repayment and scholarship sites. c. Inform eligible NMHSC students and residents about the opportunity to participate and supply application materials electronically and in person at the training institutions. d. Use outreach activities to residency programs throughout the country to inform potential J-1 Visa Waiver applicants about opportunities in New Mexico. e. Participate in at least one regional recruitment and retention training for recruiters annually; and, f. As supplied by the NHSC, Contractor will utilize both the 3RNET website, advertising collaborative and electronic software to refer NHSC, NMHSC and J-1 Visa Waiver candidates.
