Memorial Hermann and Duke University Hospital, Durham, N.C., are two of five facilities in the country chosen to share a $200 million initiative to train advanced practice nurses. Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, announced the four-year initiative, which is funded by the Affordable Care Act, on July 30.
Under the Graduate Nurse Education Demonstration, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will provide reimbursement for the cost of providing clinical training to APN students added as a result of the demonstration. Participating hospitals must partner with accredited schools of nursing and nonhospital community-based care settings, according to the CMS website.
The funding will cover as many as 400 APNs, nurse anesthetists, nurse midwives and clinical nurse specialists during the next four years, Nancy Busen, assistant dean of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston’s School of Nursing, said in a Chron.com article.
Her school, along with nursing schools at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas Woman’s University in Houston and Prairie View A&M University, will handle the academic component, while Memorial Hermann provides clinical training.
The clinical training included will provide APNs with the clinical skills necessary to provide primary care, preventive care, transitional care, chronic care management, and other services appropriate for Medicare beneficiaries, according to the CMS website.
Payments to the participating hospitals will be linked directly to the number of additional APNs that the hospitals and their partnering entities are able to train because of their participation in the demonstration. The payment will be calculated on a per-student basis, comparing previous enrollment levels in APN training programs with enrollment under the demonstration.
In addition to Duke University Hospital and Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, other participating hospitals include:
• Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
• Scottsdale (Ariz.) Healthcare Medical Center
• Rush University Medical Center, Chicago
Under the Graduate Nurse Education Demonstration, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will provide reimbursement for the cost of providing clinical training to APN students added as a result of the demonstration. Participating hospitals must partner with accredited schools of nursing and nonhospital community-based care settings, according to the CMS website.
The funding will cover as many as 400 APNs, nurse anesthetists, nurse midwives and clinical nurse specialists during the next four years, Nancy Busen, assistant dean of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston’s School of Nursing, said in a Chron.com article.
Her school, along with nursing schools at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas Woman’s University in Houston and Prairie View A&M University, will handle the academic component, while Memorial Hermann provides clinical training.
The clinical training included will provide APNs with the clinical skills necessary to provide primary care, preventive care, transitional care, chronic care management, and other services appropriate for Medicare beneficiaries, according to the CMS website.
Payments to the participating hospitals will be linked directly to the number of additional APNs that the hospitals and their partnering entities are able to train because of their participation in the demonstration. The payment will be calculated on a per-student basis, comparing previous enrollment levels in APN training programs with enrollment under the demonstration.
In addition to Duke University Hospital and Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, other participating hospitals include:
• Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
• Scottsdale (Ariz.) Healthcare Medical Center
• Rush University Medical Center, Chicago
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