Community Health Center Inc. in Middletown has received a three-year, $1.5 million grant from the Health Resources Services Administration to help health centers around the country train healthcare professionals.
CHC will help health centers:
– Establish postgraduate training programs for nurse practitioners, postdoctoral clinical psychologists, and psychiatric nurse practitioners, doubling the number of health centers with residency programs.
– Train health center representatives who want to begin or advance training programs for health profession students. Currently, about 66 percent of health centers train students.
– Develop or enhance teaching agreements with academic institutions to improve their training programs.
– Implement practice-transformation measures to help healthcare team members practice at the highest level and improve team functioning.
The training and technical assistance will be provided through a series of webinars and learning collaborative sessions using live and recorded telehealth technology.
CHC will partner with the Northwest Regional Primary Care Association to identify and recruit health centers that could benefit from the training and technical assistance. It will work with the National Nurse Practitioner Residency and Fellowship Training Consortium to ensure organizations have the expertise they need to implement postgraduate programs. It will also work with national and local Area Health Education Centers to develop or enhance their teaching agreements with academic institutions.
