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Standard Clinical Affiliation Agreement Project
As part of the Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council’s (MCHC’s)
commitment to building a thriving workforce for the communities we
serve, we are pleased to provide support for the South Metropolitan
Higher Education Consortium (SMHEC) Standard Clinical Affiliation
Agreement Project.
In 2006, the SMHEC spearheaded the development of an affiliation agreement for
use by health care providers and educational programs. This Agreement is designed
to minimize the extent to which providers and educational entities need to customize
an affiliation agreement for every health care program requiring a clinical rotation,
thereby reducing the personnel time spent on contract review, and freeing the
staff to focus their efforts on other critical activities. The expeditious signing
of the agreements places students in clinical rotations faster, thus improving
student satisfaction with the clinical experience.
A task force including: SMHEC, MCHC, Illinois Hospital Association (IHA), Illinois
Coalition for Nursing Resources (ICNR), and hospital staff and educators representing
the entire metropolitan Chicago area participated in the development and review
of this document. A number of hospitals and colleges in the Chicago Southland
region volunteered to pilot the document for one year, beginning in the summer
of 2006. As a part of the pilot process the document went through a series of
reviews and revisions by attorneys, hospital and college staff. The year long
pilot was completed in spring, 2007, and the document is now available in updated
form for use in Illinois colleges, universities and health care institutions
which provide clinical experiences.
As this important tool moves out of the pilot phase toward full implementation,
the agreement and all related materials will be distributed to all requestors
by MCHC. We will also develop a database of user organizations to enable us to
notify you of any review, changes and/or enhancements to these tools.
To receive your copy of the Standard Clinical Affiliation Agreementand related
materials, please click below and submit your request to Gillian
Rawling, Program
Manager, Workforce Development at MCHC.
All materials will then be sent to you via e-mail.
Registration is required to receive material to ensure that
we may keep you advised of any updates to the document in the future. If you
are currently using the tool and have not yet registered with us, please visit the
site and submit
your form to Gillian.
Jeri Lynn Else
Manager, Strategic Healthcare Partnerships
(630) 942-2855
Health, Social and Behavioral
Sciences
