For release
Information: Robert Kilpatrick 503-3276 (w)
245-4533 (h)
rkilpatrick@hillhealthcenter.com www.hillhealthcenter.com
Gateway and Hill Health Form Nursing
The collaboration is financially supported by a new federal
program called "Grow Your Own Health Center Nurse."
The major purpose of the "Grow Your Own Health Center
Nurse" program is to help address the nursing shortage and recruitment
problems experienced by Federally Qualified Health Centers by training
employees from the community as basic level registered nurses
A second purpose is to establish long term linkages between
schools of nursing and health centers to provide clinical training sites at the
health centers for the nursing school students. An expected outcome of
this program is to assist HHC in recruiting nurses by increasing the number of
nursing students exposed to its programs and populations.
The grant award of $600,000 for four years will allow HHC
and Gateway to support student recruitment, selection and retention activities,
basic level registered nurse education, and the use of HHC clinical sites for
nursing education. Gateway will give preference in the selection of students
to qualified staff currently employed at
More than 20 HHC staff have
expressed an interest in the Gateway Nursing Program and two are enrolled for
the fall semester. HHC staff are currently
mentoring 29 Gateway nursing students in observational clinical rotations at
six HHC sites, including three school-based health centers.
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