Healthcare Excellence through Education
OUR PURPOSE
Gila River Health Care’s Elev8 Initiative is committed to strengthening its tribal healthcare system and its workforce now and the future by elevating each individual’s journey.
• Fostering the interests of K-12 students in healthcare careers.
• Supporting healthcare professionals in their careers.
• Cultivating community health and wellness.
PLANNING FOR HEALTHCARE CAREERS
Think About Your Future and Climb the Ladder to Success!
Careers:
• What do I love doing?
• What subjects are easy for me?
• What are my hobbies?
• What am I passionate about?
• Do I like helping people and my community?
Education:
• Get the job you want with job security.
• Make more money.
• Advance your career.
• Take care of your family.
• Have a higher life expectancy.
• Give back to the community.
WHY A CAREER IN HEALTHCARE?
Make a difference?
• Help improve lives. Help save lives.
• Provide better access to health care in your community.
• Help improve the standard of health care in medically underserved, rural, and inner-city communities and underrepresented populations.
• Advances in Medical Technology.
• Aging Population.
• Shift from Inpatient to Outpatient Care.
HEALTHCARE CAREERS OPPORTUNITIES
• Audiology
• Clinical Lab Technologist
• Community and Public Health
• Dentist
• Many Assistant type Positions
• Medical Records Technician
• Nurse • Optometrist
• Phlebotomist
• Physical/Occupational Therapists
• Physicians/Surgeons
• X-Ray Technician
• Podiatrist
• Psychologist
• Social Workers
ELEV8 GILA RIVER HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS
How can Elev8 enhance my career?
• Funding for professional growth and workforce retention.
• Become Subject Matter Expert in healthcare field.
• Interdisciplinary /interprofessional training and skills development.
• Achieve Certification(s).
• Continuing education through attendance/ participation in educational and industry conference(s).
• Simulation experiences and training.
• Networking through Administration and healthcare leadership.
Student Program
Explore Careers at:
GRHC.ORG/EXPLORE-CAREERS/
For more information, contact StudentProgram@GRHC.org
Call or Text (520) 610-3529
MEET OUR PROGRAM LEADERS
Dr. Navaz Dolasa, Pediatrician
Pediatrics Director
Frances Antone, Physician Assistant
Pediatrics Department
Frances Villescaz, MPH
Medical Education Coordinator
Charlotte Mitchell, MPH
Anita Esquer, MHI, BSN, CRNI
Education Director
Dr. Uriel Castaneda, Pediatrician
Pediatrics Department
Jennifer Harvey
Medical Staff Services Manager
Candy Braby, RN
School Health Services Director
Mario Torres, Jr.
Campus Administrator
AMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH - AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER (AIH-AHEC)
The AIH-AHEC and Tribal partners, provide a number of educational experiences for students and volunteers in many different specialties.
AIH-AHEC seeks to provide students in healthcare professions with unique and rewarding community-based education and training, both clinical and non-clinical rotations and internships, in rural and underserved Indigenous communities.
The purpose of the health professions training program is to increase the healthcare workforce in Arizona’s Tribal facilities and communities.
For more information, please visit https://americanindianhealth-ahec.az.gov/
Resources:
• AHEC Scholars
• The Elev8 Initiative is supported by the American Indian Health – AHEC and AzAHEC programs to enhance the Indigenous health care workforce.
• UofA-AHEC: https://azahec.arizona.edu/
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