Southwest Indiana Area Health Education Center nominated for Leadership Everyone Award
Southwest Indiana Area Health Education Center (SWI AHEC) has been nominated for Leadership Everyone’s 28th Annual Celebration of Leadership, an annual event to recognize servant leadership in the community. The event will be televised and streamed online on March 23.
Hosted by the University of Southern Indiana in the College of Nursing and Health Professions, Southwest Indiana AHEC is part of a national network, serving 10 southwest Indiana counties with a mission to improve health and recruit a diverse health workforce for underserved communities.
“It is an honor to be nominated and recognized for the work we are doing with health professionals, community organizations, schools and universities in this region to improve health care access for all,” says Jane Friona, Executive Director of Southwest Indiana AHEC. “Our goals to recruit and train current and future health professionals to work with rural and underserved populations coincides with Leadership Everyone’s mission, and we are excited to be a part of the Celebration of Leadership.”
Southwest Indiana AHEC began as a regional center in 2008 and is hosted by the University of Southern Indiana in the College of Nursing and Health Professions.
We are part of a national network with a mission to improve health by leading the nation in the recruitment, training and retention of a diverse health workforce for underserved communities.
Our Goals:
Recruitment:
To increase the representation of individuals from under-represented minority, disadvantaged and rural backgrounds willing and able to pursue a health profession career.
Training:
To utilize hands-on experiences to improve practicing health profession students' skills and competencies necessary to enhance the quality of health care and provide transformative team-based care delivery within rural and underserved areas and populations.
To utilize a comprehensive community-based education approach to improve the skills and competencies of health professions students' necessary to enhance the quality of health care and provide transformative team-based care delivery within rural and underserved areas and populations.
Retention in Underserved Communities:
To improve practicing health professionals' skills and competencies necessary to enhance health care quality and provide transformative team-based health care delivery to rural and underserved areas and populations.
We are Southwest Indiana AHEC!
Southwest Indiana Area Health Education Center is one of nine regional centers of the Indiana AHEC network. We ignite an interest in health careers and train future professionals. We partner with the best. Come join us!
