"Health professions pipeline excellence -- inter-professional education innovations -- evaluation and needs assessment tools"
About Indiana AHEC
A healthy Indiana needs healthy communities. And it needs health care professionals located in all areas of the state from the inner cities to the rural neighborhoods prepared to help educate citizens about health problems and issues and to provide quality service. Area Health Education Centers (AHECs) play an important role in providing communities with health care professionals prepared to meet their needs.
Today, 54 AHEC programs with more than 200 centers operate in almost every state and the District of Columbia. An AHEC is a network of regional "centers" that are coordinated through a central "program" office. Each regional center is locally grown and is designed to assess and meet the needs of citizens in that specific region. AHECs perform four basic functions:
In accomplishing these goals, the AHEC can improve the quality of health care, especially primary and preventative care.
Indiana AHEC's Mission
The mission of the Indiana AHEC Network is to improve health by recruiting, educating and retaining healthcare professionals for underserved communities in Indiana.
Indiana AHEC's Goals
Improve the distribution of health care professionals in underserved areas of Indiana. Improve the diversity of the health care workforce in Indiana. Improve the quality of health care professions education in Indiana.