Northwest Area Health Education Center

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The Northwest Area Health Education Center is an educational outreach center and training program at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States. It is designed to enhance the health of the public in its 17- county region by improving the supply, distribution, and quality of health and human service personnel - especially in priamry care - through diverse community/academic partnerships.

1 Five Core Components
2 Top ten strategies
3 Guiding Objectives for Partnerships and Collaborations
4 External links

[edit] Five Core Components

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The five core components are

Health careers, civersity and recruitment
Health sciences student support
Graduate nedical education and patient services
Continuing education activities and services
Information and library services

[edit] Top ten strategies

Develop a leadership and organizational culture of performance and accountability.
Establish critical quantitative benchmarks and focus on achieving them.
In addition to rigorous expense discipline, focus on pricing.
Focus on higher-margin services and products.
Do NOT allow mission to be used to justify poor performance.
Balance focus on core services with development of new high-margin services.
Proactively and aggressively address partnership issues-equality of partnership.
Recognize quality as a key strategic imperative-make it a priority.
Adopt new information technology.

[edit] Guiding Objectives for Partnerships and Collaborations

Mission Alignment: To honor and respect the individual missions of each organization while investing in the complementary missions to create a shared future.
Shared Resources: To combine human and material resources where appropriate to enhance mission attainment, support ongoing programming, and initate new programming, "Everyone brings something to the table."
Shared Relationships: To broaden visibility and value of each organization's programming and community presence through the extension of existing relationships and the development of new relationships.
Mutual Benefits: To expand and create opportunities that increase and improve the effectiveness of each organization with regard to mission attainment.
Leveraged Impact: To enhance program results through leveraged resources, combined resources, and the development of new resources.
Measurable Outcomes: To demonstrate effectiveness of programming toward mission attainment.