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Hospitals to participate in nurse training demo
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted Aug. 6, 2012
Hospitals in five states have been selected to participate in an Affordable Care Act demonstration project under which they will receive payment to provide clinical training to advanced practice registered nurses, part of an effort to increase the nation’s primary care work force.
Participating hospitals are: the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Duke University Hospital, Durham, N.C.; Scottsdale (Ariz.) Healthcare Medical Center; Rush University Medical Center, Chicago; and Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center Hospital, Houston.
The demonstration is expected to run over four years and will make $200 million available to help these hospitals offset their costs for training the nurses, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced on July 30. The training will offer “the clinical skills necessary to provide primary care, preventive care, transitional care, chronic care management and other services appropriate for Medicare beneficiaries,” CMS stated in a news release.
Participating hospitals are required to partner with accredited nursing schools and nonhospital community-based care settings, but in some instances they may partner with other hospitals to expand the number of students trained. Payments to the hospitals “will be linked directly to the number of additional [advanced practice registered nurses] that the hospitals and their partnering entities are able to train as a result of their participation in the demonstration,” according to CMS.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2012/08/06/gvbf0806.htm.
