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Palmer College of Chiropractic Academic Health Center
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| Founded in 1897, Palmer College is the world's first and largest chiropractic college. |
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DAVENPORT, IA
The Palmer College of Chiropractic Academic Health Center located in Pisciottano Hall on Palmer’s campus in Davenport, Iowa, is a $12.5 million, three-story building with approximately 50,000-square feet of space. The new Center with its progressive clinic facility further enhances the education students receive at Palmer College of Chiropractic, and offers expanded chiropractic clinic services to patients in the community.
The Palmer Academic Health Center includes:
• Community outpatient clinic facilities
• Clinical learning resources for students, faculty, alumni and researchers
• State-of-the-art digital radiology (X-ray) services
• A patient-centered and faculty-directed model of care
• Chiropractic rehabilitation services
• A Welcome Center for campus visitors and alumni
The Center is a focal point on campus and a leading-edge outpatient chiropractic clinic for Quad-City area residents that also provides students, faculty, alumni and researchers with a clinic and clinical educational resources unlike any other in chiropractic education. Its construction has been funded through federal support and through Palmer College’s five-year capital campaign, which raised more than $35 million in gifts and pledges by December 31, 2006. Support for the campaign included a $750,000 challenge grant from The Kresge Foundation, the first ever awarded to a chiropractic college, as well as $1,750,000 in pledges from the Bechtel Trusts. The building is named after Drs. Maurice and Laurel Pisciottano, whose $3 million challenge pledge was the largest single alumni contribution to the capital campaign. The Center opened on July 10, 2007.
Executive Dean for Clinic Affairs Kurt Wood, D.C., describes how the Center benefits Palmer’s students. “This new facility allows us to gear Palmer’s clinical education to prepare our graduates for contemporary chiropractic practice,” he says. “The Palmer Academic Health Center has allowed us to shift from a supervisory model to a mentor model of internship. The students take part in all aspects of patient-centered care and management, guided by our faculty clinicians. Our focus is on best practices, which are made up of three equal parts consisting of evidence (what the scientific literature is telling us), clinician experience and patient expectations.”
The best practices philosophy permeates all aspects of the Center, from clinical education to patient care. “Our students and patients have access to the best that technology has to offer,” Dr. Wood says, “including digital radiography, the latest practice management software and a full-service rehabilitation and sports injury department. Because we want our students to be successful in a contemporary chiropractic practice setting, the clinic will eventually be paperless. We want our students to be exposed to electronic records systems and office software products so that they can make intelligent, informed and objective choices for their practices. It’s our responsibility as an institution to give them the tools they need to make the best practice decisions.”
Another unique component of the Palmer Academic Health Center is the learning resource center, which in addition to having the latest multi-media resources for clinical education, also features a simulated patient testing center for intern development. “This facility has two-way mirrors and recording equipment so that interns can come in, go through a mock exam with a simulated patient, and not only be evaluated by a faculty clinician, but also be able to view a tape of the encounter for self-evaluation,” Dr. Wood says. “This allows us not only to conduct clinic competency evaluations, but also to work with students one-on-one to develop their patient communication and clinical skills. This is a key component in their future success. Our students are more confident in their abilities because of this unique feature.”
The progressive elements of the new Center benefit patients in the community as well as students, faculty, researchers and alumni of Palmer College. “The new Palmer Academic Health Center is setting standards in health care, assuring that people view it as a resource for the community,” says Dr. Wood. “We will continually raise the bar so that we are always setting the standard for others to follow.”
Because Palmer is Chiropractic
For more information visit www.palmer.edu
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