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CRITICAL CARE WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIPIn response to a number of reports suggesting an impending critical care workforce shortage, the ACCP partnered with the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), the American Thoracic Society (ATS), and the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), to form the Critical Care Workforce Partnership, whose more than 100,000 members are integral to critical care delivery. The Critical Care Workforce Partnership previously reported that the demand for critical care services would increase rapidly due to the aging population, while the intensivist supply would not be able to care for a greater proportion of critically ill patients. In 2006, the US Department of Health and Human Services took notice of the Critical Care Workforce Partnership’s previous findings and released its Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) report to Congress, entitled, The Critical Care Workforce: A Study of the Supply and Demand for Critical Care Physicians. The HRSA report further reinforced the Critical Care Workforce Partnership’s findings by estimating a 35% intensivist shortage by 2020. This report also served as the basis for the new Patient-Focused Critical Care Enhancement Act legislation, recently introduce on Capitol Hill.
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