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2006 Catskill Hudson AHEC FUNDED PROGRAMS

13th Annual Critical Care Conference - Bassett Healthcare - A conference featuring national level speakers. These educators will teach on subjects that are important to nurses in all areas of the hospital setting. Subjects include areas as diverse as palliative care, renal disease, shock, neurotrauma and hemodynamic evaluations.
Dialysis Nurse Teaching Day - Bassett Healthcare - A one-day, continuing education conference targeting nurses caring for dialysis patients.
RN Refresher Course - Bassett Healthcare - Continuing Education and professional support program for health professionals, designed to encourage nurses to return to the nursing practice.
BENECAMP - Benedictine Health Foundation - Program designed to develop the interests of local students into a career into healthcare through various on-site activities.
Health Careers Behind the Scenes - Catskill Regional Medical Center - Seminar for 100 youth, ages 12-18 designed to facilitate minority and underserved students' interest in health careers.
M*A*S*H* Camp - Delaware Valley Hospital - 2-day MASH Camp for 20 area HS Students who are interested in exploring healthcare careers. They will see various types of equipment utilized, experience first-hand observation of staff members performing their jobs, perform hands-on activities and learn about educational requirements for various healthcare positions.
Health and Wellness Program - DCMO BOCES - Program designed to assist schools to encourage youth in the exploration and pursuit of health careers through service learning.
Clinical Education Department Program - Ellenville Regional Hospital - Funding will allow Ellenville to create the Clinical Education Department and provide their Clinical Educator with the resources that she needs in order to provide their staff with the training and knowledge that they need to best care for patients. The resources will include videos, books and other training material.
E.C.H.O. Program - Hudson River HealthCare, Inc. - A youth development program designed to encourage and cultivate a diverse, dedicated healthcare workforce through experience with a variety of healthcare occupations. In addition to practical experience, this program is designed to increase participant's self-esteem, self-sufficiency and awareness of their potential to be valuable in contributing members of their community.
Summer Accelerated RN Degree Program - Hartwick College - Specifically for pre-licensure, transfer students pursuing a baccalaureate degree in nursing as a means of accelerating nursing education for qualified students who will subsequently enter the RN workforce ahead of the student pursuing the traditional four year baccalaureate degree. Through this program, students have a unique opportunity for educational mobility, a particularly attractive option to those students who are changing careers.
Level I Telemetry for CNAs, PCTs, etc. - Kingston Hospital (KH) - Provide EKG training and interpretation for KH CNAs, Unit Clerks and allied healthcare employees. It will provide continuing education training and enhance the level of skills for entry level clinical and non-clinical personnel.
Medical Student Program - Mid-Hudson Family Health Institute - Program that allows students to work with physicians in a wide geographic area across a number of medical specialties and the vital linkage between pre-medical learning, medical school clerkships and residency training in family medicine. It also focuses on enhancing continuing educational programs designed to train physicians to become better teachers.
BS/DO Program - Mid-Hudson Family Health Institute - This program was designed to accelerate the undergraduate and graduate medical curriculum from the traditional 8 years to a 7 year combined program. A special emphasis is placed on recruitment of local youths as a means of recruiting family practice residents and, eventually, family physicians to the Hudson Valley.
FASD Prevention - Mid-Hudson Family Health Institute - Expansion of a Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) identification and primary prevention program.
Information Project - Mid-Hudson Library System - 1/2 day conference, Exploring Careers in the Health Field, for 8th grade students.
Shadow-A-Surgeon - Mithoefer Center for Rural Surgery - Program that provides pre-med students an opportunity for shadowing, where students will scrub in for surgeries and join the surgeon in the clinic for patient appointments. They will learn what it is like to be a surgeon in a rural community.
Summer Medical Academy - ONC BOCES - Approximately 20 ninth and tenth graders will participate in a one-week health career survey program at two local hospitals. The goal is to encourage youth, especially from underrepresented and disadvantaged backgrounds, to pursue health careers.
HOSA Program - Orange-Ulster BOCES - Program designed to begin a Chapter of Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA) for the purpose of engaging high school students in actively participating in experiences and exposures that will encourage them to gain the foundation skills to pursue a future career in health care.
Y2Kids Careers from A-Z - Orange-Ulster BOCES - A two day, hands-on, interactive career exploration for Middle School students.
Healthcare Provider Advocate Program - Otsego School of Practical Nursing - Provides additional funds to a 10-month, full time intensive curriculum, which would be difficult for students to continue full-time employment and keep their work studies at an acceptable level for graduation, if not for the funding.
Nursing Opportunities Program - Sullivan County Center for Workforce Development - Provides a Certified Nurse Aides prep course, state certification exam and job placement to students currently enrolled part time in BOCES LPN Program, which will assist local healthcare facilities in filling their need for CNAs and will provide the LPN students with continuing education and provide a good basis for enhancing basic nursing skills.
SIM-ulation - Sullivan County Community College - By providing simulation education to healthcare professionals via simulated education on Sim-Man and Sim-Baby, the College will develop opportunities for future health professionals to receive their clinical training and provide continuing education and professional development to health practitioners, enhancing their skills in underserved communities.
Health Career Exploration Program - Ulster BOCES - New Visions Health Career Students visit all local middle schools and meet w/guidance counselors and students in order to prepare them for an extended visit to area hospitals, where students are given the opportunity to visit various departments within the institution and learn from department personnel the prerequisites, requirements and responsibilities of the job. Encourages youth to pursue a career in health care.
2006 Critical Care Conference Video - Ulster BOCES / Kingston Hospital - Supplementation of cost for video taping and supplies used during the process of recording the Critical Care Conference. The video tape will offer this quality conference for loan to other area hospitals and healthcare organizations by request and will feature lectures by local healthcare professionals specializing in areas such as cardiology, neurosurgery and others.
Medical Student Housing - Bassett Healthcare - This program supports housing expenses of 3rd & 4th year medical students in a program that offers education in clinical rotations. This program is vital to the education mission and as a recruitment tool for the residency programs with an end goal for the residents to stay on or return as attending faculty.
RN Training Program - Ellenville Regional Hospital - Tuition assistance for an Ellenville Regional Hospital employee to enter the RN Program at Ulster County Community College. This student will complete her RN certification and remain at Ellenville Regional Hospital after she completes the 4 semesters of nursing.
Assessing Exposure to Ethnic Sources of Lead and Other Toxic Metals - Mid-Hudson Family Health Institute - This program is to broaden the understanding of the nature and magnitude of the problem of poisonings resulting from exposure to lead and other metals within certain ethnic communities. Healthcare professionals will be able to identify specific imported products and cultural practices associated with exposure to toxic metals.
Summer Enrichment Program - St. Luke’s, Cornwall Hospitals - A summer internship program for high school and third year college nursing students interested in pursuing a career in healthcare. Program objective was to expose students to various professions in healthcare and encourage them to pursue a health career.
Anatomy & Diversity: BodyWorlds - SUNY Cobleskill - Designed to give current medical career students an opportunity to learn from classis anatomical displays at the Philadelphia College of Physicians’ Mutter Museum of Anatomical Anomalies and compare these presentations to the contemporary, "plastinated" BodyWorlds anatomical displays at the Franklin Institute of Science. It was also a recruitment tool to encourage students in other disciplines, who were taking science courses, to consider careers in a health profession.