CAE Healthcare Facilitates Expansion of Rush Medical Simulation Program

CAE Healthcare and the Rush Center for Clinical Skills and Simulation (RCCSS) have entered a simulation research partnership to enhance healthcare education and improve patient safety, including support for RCCSS simulation research initiatives. CAE has certified RCCSS as a CAE Healthcare Center of Excellence. Through this innovative partnership, Rush students and industry partners now have access to some of the most advanced medical simulation technology available.

Located on the Rush University Medical Center campus near the west side of Chicago, the 20,000-square-foot simulation center is equipped with state-of-the-art equipment and technology to enhance teaching and learning capabilities. This includes advanced patient simulators that help students practice realistic scenarios in a controlled environment, preparing them to work with actual patients.

The high-fidelity manikins include CAE HPS, an advanced patient simulator with working cardiovascular and respiratory systems that react to anesthesia and other medications, and CAE Lucina, a childbirth simulator that can simulate both normal and emergency delivery situations. High-fidelity equipment includes a variety of surgical, endovascular, robotic and pediatric simulators as well as clinical skill task training devices for airway management, vascular access, and regional anesthesia skills.

“This partnership is the ideal alignment between the core values of CAE, Rush and RCCSS – three forward-thinking organizations, driven to push the boundaries of healthcare simulation to develop new, evidence-based practices and training technologies for tomorrow’s clinicians,” said Heidi Wood, President of CAE Healthcare. “As a CAE Center of Excellence, RCCSS will offer a real-world test lab for interprofessional simulation-based education that will advance healthcare and patient safety.”