Changes at the HealthPartners Simulation Center for Patient Safety at Metropolitan State University

For over 6 years, healthcare professionals and students throughout Minnesota, South Dakota and Western Wisconsin have benefited from educational programs at the HealthPartners Simulation Center for Patient Safety, located on the St. Paul campus of Metropolitan State University.

In September 2009, the HealthPartners Simulation Center for Patient Safety will no longer be located on the campus of Metropolitan State University.  Instead, HealthPartners Clinical Simulation is going totally mobile--providing simulation-related programs on-site at any location--in a hospital, at a medical or dental clinic, or conference center/meeting room.  Through advances in simulation technology, the same level of highly realistic mannequins/models and advanced audio-video recording capabilities that previously were only available at the Metropolitan State University facility are now able to be brought to the participants' environment.

The College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Metropolitan State University will continue to utilize the current simulation space to provide simulation programs for the growing number of undergraduate and graduate nursing students.

For more information or to schedule on-site clinical simulation, contact Gail Johnson, Director of HealthPartners Clinical Simulation at
952-883-7197 email Gail Johnson   HealthPartners IME link

For information about simulation at Metropolitan State University, contact Marilyn Loen, Dean College of Nursing and Health Sciences at
651-793-1376 email Marilyn Loen   College of Nursing and Health Sciences link