Growing a Vibrant Healthcare Workforce for Arizona

Youth (K-12)

CAAHEC offers pipeline programs that expose and engage high school and undergraduate students to health care career paths.
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Students & Residents

CAAHEC supports community-based education and training that include clinical rotation and internship opportunities, and provides exposure to community medicine, social determinants of health, current and emerging public health issues, and community health needs.
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Healthcare Professionals

CAAHEC provides different educational opportunities for our healthcare professionals seeking continued medical education through conferences, seminars, workshops and training sessions.
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Communities

CAAHEC partners with various entities and communities to help address Arizona’s health care workforce needs.
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The Arizona Alliance for Community Health Centers (AACHC) is the Primary Care Association (PCA) for the State of Arizona.  CAAHEC is a sponsored program of the AACHC that supports its mission of “Primary Healthcare for All.”  As the state’s Primary Care Association, we firmly believe that we are at the nexus of addressing primary care workforce issues in the state, especially in rural and underserved communities. CAAHEC’s solution to addressing workforce shortages and improving health care access is through “growing our own.” This is accomplished through strong academic-community partnerships focused on developing a health workforce in professions of highest need, in places of highest need, using innovative and promising models.  Through educating students in our Community Health Centers and public health systems, we will get them connected and serving our communities, helping address health disparities, and making our communities healthier.