Faulkner University, Hyundai enter partnership for health care training
Faulkner University and Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama are forming a partnership to provide new training opportunities for students through the university’s College of Health Sciences.
At a signing ceremony, they created a three-year partnership. Montgomery’s Hyundai plant will contribute $200,000 a year to support Faulkner’s Partnering in Alabama for Training in Healthcare (PATH) program.
The PATH partnership program is a statewide initiative led by Faulkner’s College of Health Sciences in collaboration with the Alabama Department of Public Health and others. It’s designed to provide free, simulation-based training to healthcare professionals and emergency responders across Alabama.
Last year, PATH received $1.2 million in funding through a partnership with ADPH, launching statewide training for public health nurses, public school nurses, emergency responders, the Alabama National Guard and community partners.
“This is a historical event with a public-private, private-private partnership, which is so important and critical for us in impacting healthcare in the state of Alabama and in the surrounding region,” Faulkner University President Mitch Henry. said “What a blessing it is to partner with a wonderful community asset like Hyundai. What you do at Hyundai means so much to so many families in our community. What you do there impacts the world.”
The partnership will support specialized training services provided to Hyundai plant personnel and contractors, including Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support, CPR/AED certification and recertification, Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support, EMT, continued competency training, advanced trauma simulations and additional professional development offerings.
“We’re fortunate to have strong partnerships with many of the local colleges and universities here in town. These partnerships help strengthen the quality of life in the communities we call home and this new partnership with Faulkner University continues to build on that commitment,” Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama CEO Mark Rader said.
The Simulation Lab at Faulkner is set up to look like an emergency room with hospital beds and life-like, high-fidelity manikin “patients,” community partners practice advanced medical skills in a safe and controlled environment, ideal to train for different real-life medical emergencies, without risk to actual patients.
