Allied Health partners with Southcentral Foundation to improve health outcomes for older adults

The UAA School of Allied Health is pleased to announce a partnership with the Southcentral Foundation's (SCF) Nuka System of Care to implement a three-year HRSA Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP) grant. The GWEP supports the development of a health care workforce that improves health outcomes for older adults by integrating geriatrics with primary care, maximizing patient and family engagement, and transforming the healthcare system. Called the AK GILD (Alaska Geriatrics Interdisciplinary Leadership Development), this program has two tracks: faculty and leadership.

The faculty track is for tenured or term faculty who:

• Have at least a part-time (50 percent) or greater position in a non-administrative assignment;
• Hold the rank of instructor, assistant professor, associate professor or professor; and are
• Involved with a health or behavioral health program at the University of Alaska.

In addition to the above, all applicants must have a long-term professional goal to focus on an aspect of leadership in geriatrics.

Program activities include: a one-credit summer assignment, with an externship/job shadowing opportunity at SCF and its ancillary outpatient clinics; attendance to the Nuka System of Care's annual conference and Core Concepts Training in June 2016; and resources and support for revising teaching materials to incorporate the SCF model of care in a geriatrics context.

Applications will be accepted beginning February 2016. For more information, contact Rosellen Rosich at (907) 947-9080 or rmrosich@uaa.alaska.edu; or Sheila Soule at (907) 786-4853 or sjsoule@uaa.alaska.edu.

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