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2007 Catskill Hudson AHEC FUNDED PROGRAMS

• 14th Annual Critical Care Conference - Bassett Healthcare - A conference featuring national level speakers. These educators will touch 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.
• Medical Student Housing - Bassett Healthcare - 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 is used as a recruitment tool for the residency programs with an end goal for the residents to stay on or return as attending faculty.
• BENECAMP - Benedictine Health Foundation - Designed to develop the interests of local students toward a healthcare career 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.
• Summer Accelerated RN Degree Program - Hartwick College - Program 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.
• E.C.H.O. Program (Exploring Careers and HealthCare Opportunities) - 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, contributing members of their community.
• 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 the recruitment of local youths as a means of recruiting family practice residents and, eventually, family physicians to the Hudson Valley.
• 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.
• 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, without the funding, would be difficult for students to continue full-time employment and keep their work studies at an acceptable level for graduation.
• Health Career Exploration Program - Ulster BOCES - New Visions Health Career Students visit local middle schools and meet with 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 prerequisites, requirements and responsibilities of the job from department personnel. This program encourages youth to pursue a career in healthcare.