GRANT TO D’YOUVILLE SEEKS TO IMPROVE HEALTH CARE SERVICES TO ELDERLY
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
BUFFALO – D’Youville College has received a three-year $36,000 grant
from the Community Health Foundation of Western and Central New York
for programs to improve the quality of health care service for older
adults in the area.
The Family Nurse Practitioner Program and
the Physician Assistant Department at D’Youville will share in the
grant that will fund graduate student geriatric fellowships. The grants
will be used to support students who are committed to working with
older adults upon completion of their Masters’ degrees.
Students
who receive these stipends are required to participate in research
endeavors and colloquia focusing on geriatric care and in a series of
teleconferences.
The Institute of Medicine, in a recent report,
said inter-professional practice between health care disciplines was
strongly encouraged. "Opportunities for Nurse Practitioners and
Physician Assistant students to work collaboratively in addressing the
needs of older adults in a reflection of the ‘real world’ students will
encounter once our of school, says Dr. Denise Dunford, director of the
Family Nurse Practitioner Program at D’Youville.
The Buffalo
based Community Health Foundation seeks to improve the health and
healthcare of the people and communities of Western New York and
Central New York with a focus on the frail elderly and children in
communities of poverty.
"Given the influx of geriatric patients
in all medicine specialties, it is our hope that this grant from the
Community health Foundation will provide increased exposure and
competence to our graduate students in an effort to meet the special
needs of the geriatric population,” said Dr. Maureen Finney, chair of
the Physician Assistant Department at the college.
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