Yuma Regional Medical Center

City: Yuma

Amount: $500500

Award Date: 2022

Duration: 36 months

Program Area: Bioscience

Support to enhance Yuma Regional Medical Center’s research capacity, building the skills base and infrastructure to enable YRMC clinicians and staff to initiate a greater volume of high-impact research studies. The project will provide support for staff to coordinate research activities; enroll staff in research-operations training modules; underwrite a research symposium; and fund seed grants for staff research projects. Meanwhile, collaborators at Arizona Western College will strengthen YRMC’s workforce pipeline by integrating training in health-care data management into course curricula and involving AWC students in internships at YRMC.