Professional and Patient Education 2007

$27,777,203

Medical Education*
$14,426,510

• Salaries and benefits for medical residents.
• A portion of salaries and benefits for department chairs and
  others who support graduate medical education.
• Education support activities, such as hospital libraries.

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Nursing Education*
$10,290,457

• Salaries and benefits for nurses during the extended period of time in which they are learning the professional skills for our acute environment. During this time, nurse orientees participate in classroom and clinical activities and are not directly responsible for patient care.
• Salaries and benefits for personnel providing continuing
  professional education.
• Salaries paid to professionals attending mandatory education programs.

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Research Activities
$1,448,737

• Research activities in areas such as health studies, nursing, internal medicine and neurology not funded by grants.

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Nursing Scholarships
$695,210

• College scholarships to nursing students not funded by grants.

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Patient Education and Publications
$536,379

• Expenses for patient education, including publications like the patient-visitor guide and patient safety handbook.

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Emergency Education
$379,910

• Training and continuing education for 16,218 physicians, nurses, paramedics and other health care providers throughout the region.
• We provide bioterrorism and disaster preparedness education in our community. These services are provided free of charge.

* About education and Act 55: As per Act 55, community benefit provided by charitable organizations includes the difference between the full cost of education and research programs and payments received to support these programs.

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