About Us

The New York Alliance for Careers in Healthcare (NYACH) is a public-private industry partnership formed to address system-level challenges facing the local healthcare economy.

Formed in 2011 as a collaboration between the NYC Workforce Funders and the NYC Department of Small Business Services, NYACH works with employers and other stakeholders in the healthcare industry to understand the future of the sector, translates that understanding for the workforce development ecosystem, and galvanizes coordinated action to prepare New York City for the healthcare economy of tomorrow.

Why We’re Here

NYACH believes that new economic and workforce models are key to making our healthcare system better and more equitable, and that many challenges can be addressed through broad, multi-stakeholder collaboration.

New York City has a wealth of healthcare resources, from world-renowned academic medical systems, to community and home-based care organizations, to strong industry associations, advocacy groups, and labor unions. Similarly, our city has a robust healthcare workforce development ecosystem with strong private and government networks in place to help prepare all New Yorkers access for the good paying jobs that employers need.

Yet we still have persistent inequities, both in community health outcomes and in the ways jobs are structured across the system. 750,000 diverse and committed New Yorkers show up every day for their patients and communities—especially so during the darkness of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is our job to show up for them with smart, effective, and collaborative economic and workforce development strategies.

Our Process

NYACH understands that there is no one-size solution for the complexity of the healthcare system, and that no single stakeholder has all the answers.

We have a “relationships-first” approach to our work that prioritizes strong and trusting long-term partnerships in order to sustain successes beyond short-term programmatic wins. We want to ensure that every project is impactful for the system and its stakeholders, leads to our partners’ increased faith in the cooperative process, and increases trust in NYACH’s ability to serve as an intermediary.

Over the years we have designed many industry-informed interventions to advance the sector’s transformation to value-based care models, while supporting job quality improvements for lower paid workers, reducing training and educational barriers to both increase job availability and create more accessible pipelines for workers into higher paying jobs.

NYACH Process Steps

NYACH believes that new economic and workforce models are key to making our healthcare system better and more equitable, and that many challenges can be addressed through broad, multi-stakeholder collaboration.

Our cooperative approach means that we engage our partners at every step of a project, through research, design, execution, and evaluation.

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  • Industry Need

    • What is the problem to be solved?

    • What needs or trends within the healthcare sector are being elevated to NYACH by its partners: employers, unions, industry associations, academic institutions, etc.?

  • 1. Identify & Articulate Need

    • Work with partner & employer network to understand the scope/scale of the challenge

    • Validate and research the challenge, building an understanding of how it operates within the NYC economic and workforce development ecosystem

  • 2. Determine NYACH Role

    • Determine what role, if any, NYACH ought to have in addressing this challenge

    • Does it fit within NYACH’s intake criteria?

    • Is NYACH well-suited to solve this challenge, or are there other stakeholders better positioned to tackle it?

  • 3. Design an intervention model & implementation plan

    • Design an industry-informed intervention model

    • Determine appropriate timeline, implementation partners, and data collection plans

  • 4. Align funding and prepare for implementation

    • Ensure there is buy-in from funding partners in government and/or private philanthropy

    • Ensure there are firm implementation commitments from industry

  • 5. Implement

    • NYACH may manage contracts, grants, or programs directly

    • Alternatively, NYACH may consult to the implementation of a partner’s program

  • 6. Evaluate & amplify

    • Analyze data and evaluate the intervention model

    • Share results with system partners, particularly those who can scale and embed lessons learned in standard operating practices

Our Partners

The insights of our industry partners are core to what we do, informing our work based on real world conditions and helping to thread the needle to collaboratively achieve real impact.

NYACH’S Partner Council

Read the NYACH Partners Council Common Agenda here.

Subsector Advisory Groups

NYACH also convenes three advisory groups that include more than 50 major local healthcare employers to inform programs and strategy in three healthcare subsectors:

  • Hospital/Inpatient

  • Ambulatory and Primary Care

  • Long-term Services and Supports

Occasionally NYACH also convenes topic-specific workgroups, such as those addressing specialty worker populations or occupations, based on current industry needs.