Community Members

Assistance with Recruiting Health Care Professionals:

Community health care providers/agencies are encouraged to contact the AHEC to inform us of job vacancies and specific recruitment efforts which we can help support. AHEC meets many prospective health care employees through its work via career fairs, support of student rotations, engagement with clinicians and communities and through inquiries from health professionals using our website. Contact AHEC@riverviewhealth.org.

Partners in Health Workforce Development:

AHEC centers partner with many agencies in each region to create strategies and seek out funding to support efforts to address local health workforce needs. Communities are encouraged to seek the AHEC's partnership in efforts to interest K-12 students in health careers; to support undergraduate students in their endeavors toward obtaining a health care degree and/or health professions graduate school admission; and, of course, in efforts to recruit and retain a highly qualified health professions workforce. Below are a few of the ways AHEC can help:

• Speaking to groups about health careers
• Connecting health professionals and students
• Providing resource materials
• Serving as a partner agency in the development and implementation of grants

AHEC Engages in New Partnership Efforts in Region!

• The NW MN AHEC offered two trainings in Bridges Into Health from Aha!Process, Inc.  to support health care professionals in their goal of seeing strong health outcomes for their clients in poverty. Initiatives continue in the region to forward this initiative.
• We have joined the Bemidji Area Palliative Care group and will soon be supporting their connection with the Palliative Care Initiative led by the NE MN AHEC
• We are working with partners in Bemidji who are beginning the process of establishing a Federally Qualified Health Center. One goal of the AHEC is that health professions students would have an Inter-Professional learning opportunity in a rural setting which would allow them to develop their skills as future practitioners of rural health