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Southwest Indiana Area Health Education Center

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The Mission of Southwest Indiana AHEC

To improve health by recruiting, educating and retaining healthcare professionals in underserved communities.

Southwest Indiana Area Health Education Center (AHEC) is one of nine regional centers of the Indiana AHEC Network. We ignite an interest in health careers. We transform healthcare. We train future professionals. We partner with the best. Come join us!

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We are Indiana AHEC

Fact: More than 2 million people in Indiana live in communities that don't have enough healthcare workers. Indiana AHEC is finding solutions.

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AHEC Scholars

The AHEC Scholars program is designed to give health professions students a deeper understanding of rural and urban healthcare, caring for underserved populations, and the importance of practice transformation in a clinical care setting.

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Indiana SANE Training Project

The Indiana SANE Training Project provides advanced nursing educational opportunities, mentoring and support for Registered Nurses and Advanced Practice Registered Nurses to become trained, clinically competent and certified as Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners.

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Clinical Collaborators

A vibrant rural healthcare system requires a commitment to employee education, student mentoring and reciprocal partnerships. We recognize the efforts of healthcare educators and providers that are helping achieve our mission of improving health for all.

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Education and Workforce
Pipeline Programs
Programming for Health Professionals

Photo Gallery

  • Girl using a stethoscope in the clinical simulation center at USI
  • Nurse leading a session on how to use a rape kit
  • Visiting high school students doing an activity based on teamwork
  • Physician showing high school students how to dissect a heart
  • Visiting high school students watch an ultrasound demonstration
  • SANE training participants learn how to use a rape kit
  • high school student and AHEC team member at an event
  • High school students practicing CPR
  • Student using a dementia live kit to learn about vision loss and arthritis and effect on ability to perform activities of daily living
  • Students in high school CNA program with their completion certificates
  • Smiling high school student in CNA program holding a certificate of completion

This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number U77HP23068 Area Health Education Centers Point of Service Maintenance and Enhancement for a total of $1,446,948. This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.

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Southwest Indiana Area Health Education Center

Jane Friona
Jane Friona
(812) 461-5446