VA Puget Sound Health Care System
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Primary Care Education program to receive $5 million grant January 28, 2011
VA Puget Sound Primary Care Education program to receive $5 million grant
SEATTLE -- VA Puget Sound Health Care System and the University of Washington’s Schools of Nursing and Medicine are proud to announce the formation of a new Center of Excellence in Primary Care Education. The Center will be funded for five years by the Office of Academic Affiliations in the Department of Veterans Affairs with a grant of $5 million and be based at VA Puget Sound.
This new center will become part of VA’s New Models of Care initiative and will take advantage of VA Puget Sound’s strong primary care setting to develop and test innovative, team-based approaches to prepare the next generation of health care providers. This will include medical residents and students, advanced practice nurses, undergraduate nursing students and associate health trainees.
VA Puget Sound was one of five VA facilities selected out of 37 national applicants, with Boise VA Medical Center being the second site selected within the VA’s Northwest Network. The three other VA sites selected sites include VA San Francisco, Cleveland VA Medical Center and the VA Connecticut Health Care System. “The Center of Excellence will promote interprofessional team-based care, a patient-centered practice model that will positively impact the healthcare we provide to our Veterans and to patients in non-VA practice settings throughout the country,” said William H. Campbell, MD, MBA, chief of staff at VA Puget Sound and associate dean for VA affairs at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
“Interprofessional collaboration is crucial for the future of health and healthcare. The partnership with VA Puget Sound Health Care System and the School of Medicine provides an exciting opportunity to advance the education of physicians and advanced practice nurses through a team practice model,” said Marla E. Salmon, ScD, RN, FAAN, The Robert G. and Jean A. Reid dean in nursing, University of Washington.
The Center of Excellence will use an innovative curriculum to create healthcare teams comprised equally of nursing and medicine trainees. The teams will work together to deliver patient-centered care for a three year term, a third of which will be spent in rotations based at VA medical centers. The center will allow VA Puget Sound to pilot changes in medical education with a goal to transform primary care training. “This work will enhance the development of training models that will ultimately facilitate other residency programs making the huge transformation to significantly increase focus on primary care training,” said Lawrence Robinson, MD, vice dean for Clinical Affairs and Graduate Medical Education for the University of Washington School of Medicine. “This new Center of Excellence will enable the program to develop innovative curricula for residents and nurse practitioner students to learn together the process of interprofessional team-based care.”
“The School of Nursing at the University of Washington has a long history of leading the field in both nursing research and education,” said Salmon. “This collaborative venture is a platform for continuing to develop and test cutting edge approaches to improving the care that healthcare teams, including advanced practice nurses, can provide.” The Center of Excellence will focus on training with the patient at the center of all decisions will help align VA health care with the best practices in modern primary care.
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