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A “retired” Riley Hospital for Children ambulance has found a new job as a teacher in the medical education simulation center in Fairbanks Hall – Indiana University Clarian Education and Resource Center, set to open this fall at the head of the Indianapolis Central Canal, just west of Senate Avenue and south of 10th Street.
The new teaching center will feature four major teaching modules that includes the Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Acute Care Unit, a teaching module featuring a simulated surgical suite, an emergency room, a transport room and a four-room flexible space that can be used to represent critical care, pre-op and recovery rooms. This module is supported with a $1 million grant from the Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation to the Indiana University School of Medicine.
In addition to this unit, the simulation center also will include a vascular flex area that can be used for simulated cardiac catheterizations and other procedures such as evoked-potential stimulations of the heart.
“We appreciate Anthem’s support for this simulation center,” said D. Craig Brater, M.D., dean of the medical school and vice president for life sciences at IU. “It affords us the opportunity to be educational leaders in providing an innovative educational experience for future and practicing physicians, nurses and other health professionals.”
The new facility will not only provide a high-tech experience but will present opportunities for health-care providers to work and practice together, an experience supportive of team building among health care professionals.
“Anthem has long been committed to efforts designed to improve health-care quality,” said Robert W. Hillman, president of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Indiana. “We’re pleased to support this training laboratory for future generations of doctors and health care professionals, because we believe it has much potential to improve health as well as health care quality and affordability.”
