CAMC Center for Learning and Research

CAMC is expanding its role as an Academic Medical Center and its commitment of providing simulation training, education, research, and learning experiences to staff and employees at CAMC and medical professionals throughout our state.

The new CAMC Center for Learning and Research will provide learning space for live and multisite participation of learners from all CAMC locations as well as healthcare professionals throughout the state. The new facility will include training and education rooms that model surgery suites, labor and delivery suites, emergency rooms, critical care rooms, patient hospital rooms and outpatient clinic rooms.

Increasingly, learning institutions with healthcare programs throughout our region are turning to CAMC for help. These institutions are looking for learning experiences that enhance the classroom learning for their students. The new CAMC Center for Learning and Research will allow CAMC to respond and initiate new dialogue with community education partners in the delivery of learning. This center will also assist in utilizing West Virginia’s limited resources to create an immersive educational tool that is robust and innovative to serve all healthcare learners in the state. The CAMC Center for Learning and Research will represent new partnerships between CAMC and the schools and universities providing healthcare clinical learning programs in West Virginia.

The new, stand-alone, state-of-the-art, three story building will be located on Chesterfield Avenue, in Kanawha City, across MacCorkle Avenue from CAMC Memorial Hospital.

The project total cost is $18 million and will be paid for with funds raised from the community and CAMC bond financing. In order to support this exciting effort, CAMC Foundation is conducting the Knowledge at the Center of Care Campaign to raise funds from our community to help support the new CAMC Center for Learning and Research and supply it with the latest technology and equipment. The CAMC Foundation campaign fundraising goal is $6 million.

To learn more about how you can partner with the CAMC Foundation Knowledge at the Center of Care campaign to help make this vision a reality, contact: Bryan Cummings, President, robert.cummings@vandaliahealth.com or 304-388-9866.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is CAMC building a Center for Learning and Research?

A new facility dedicated to healthcare research, learning, and education will provide an environment for
healthcare professionals who are looking for opportunities at the forefront of the medical industry.
A new Center for Learning and Research presents amenities including, but not limited to:
• New and state-of-the-art simulation technology
• A fexible, safe, and clean learning environment
• Easier access for employees and facilities that are ADA compliant
• Quiet study areas for learners
• Adequate conference room space – for both large and small conferences; and educational sessions

What type of learning opportunities will the CAMC Center for Learning and Research offer?

Learners will be provided opportunities:
• To remain at the forefront of innovation and delivery of simulation-based healthcare education
• To be fluent in current practices of simulation-based healthcare education
• To create a secure environment to practice and utilize new equipment with a safe transfer of skills and
knowledge to patient care
• To provide continuing education for faculty, staff and other healthcare providers throughout the region that
includes late breaking developments and trends in the industry

How will the community benefit from this project?

Where will the CAMC Center for Learning and Research be located?

When is the CAMC Center for Learning and Research expected to be built?

Will the CAMC Center for Learning and Research be accessible to learners outside of CAMC?

What is the CAMC Institute for Academic Medicine?

The CAMC Institute for Academic Medicine provides continuing medical education to residents, students, and health professionals training at CAMC, and also provides research support to physicians and medical health professionals throughout West Virginia and the region. CAMC, as a teaching hospital, helps the institution remain at the forefront of top quality care and innovative research. Patients benefit from the scientific basis of medicine delivered at CAMC. The knowledge generated by research yields the groundwork for tomorrow's most promising clinical applications.

Research focuses on:

Maintaining accreditation under the American Council for Graduate Medical Education for the CAMC Graduate Medical Education Program
Preventative healthcare
Improving patient outcomes
Evaluating health services and quality of care

Knowledge in patient care equals strength in research. Research includes clinical trials looking at new treatments as well as studies using hospital data to learn how to improve patient care.

Who are education and research partners?

Partnerships with other educational organizations contribute to the success of CAMC research programs. CAMC joined West Virginia University Medicine; West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine; and Marshall University School of Medicine in forming the West Virginia Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (WVCTSI), to establish and provide the infrastructure and collaboration to improve the quality of clinical and translational research conducted in the region.

Other partnerships include relationships with University of Charleston, Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins University, University of Kentucky, and others.

Research conducted adheres to all federal regulations. It is locally regulated by the Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects (IRB) at the CAMC Institute for Academic Medicine.

How much will the CAMC Center for Learning and Research cost? How will the CAMC Foundation contribute to the project?

The project total is $18 million and will be paid for with funds raised from the community and CAMC bond financing. In order to support this exciting effort, CAMC Foundation will be launching the Knowledge at the Center of Care Campaign to raise money from our community to help support a new CAMC Center for Learning and Research and supply it with the latest technology and equipment.

The CAMC Foundation campaign fundraising goal is $6 million.

What is the CAMC Foundation Knowledge at the Center of Care Campaign?

To continue CAMC’s tradition as a teaching hospital, the CAMC Foundation will be raising funds through the Knowledge at the Center of Care campaign to benefit a new, state-of-the-art learning facility with the purpose of advancing the educational needs of CAMC employees, medical and surgical residents, affiliated medical students, nursing students, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) students, other students in healthcare training programs, and other interested West Virginia healthcare professionals.

How can I contribute to the Knowledge at the Center of Care Campaign?

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