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Northern Illinois Area Health Education Center (NIAHEC) The NIAHEC
has been operating in Northern Illinois for over three years.
Achievement of these objectives are facilitated through NIAHEC program initiatives and products as described below: Health Career Initiatives Health career initiatives are designed to provide an additional level of support in the area of recruitment at the middle school, high school and college levels. Initiatives include Health Careers Camps, annual Health Career Summits, targeted recruitment activities among the health professions disciplines and student oriented 'transdisciplinary' immersion experiences in a variety of rural health care settings. Click here to read more… Community Profiles A range of profiles that describe rural communities and the employment opportunities that are available to health professionals have been developed and disseminated. In addition, profiles of specific health care organizations such as hospitals are also available for the purpose of providing background information on a community to prospective health professionals who are looking for new employment opportunities. Click here to read more… Community Network Initiatives The retention
of practicing health professionals in rural communities is often difficult
due to such factors as geographic isolation and lack of collegial support
brought about of the maldistribution of providers. The development of
a variety of needs based community networks among and between rural
community providers is one strategy for promoting the retention of health
professionals. Click here to read more…
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During this time, the Center has implemented a series of activities
that are designed to help remedy the problem of primary care provider
maldistribution and improve the quality of health care in rural, underserved
communities. The activities offer an integrated approach to the problem
and challenge of health professional retention in rural, underserved
areas. The activities are guided by three major programmatic objectives:
