Funded by a large seed grant through the Shark Tank Open, Bridges Health is an emerging pedagogic model at Winona State University providing innovative clinical education and training to a wide variety of students to effectively prepare for entry into practice in today’s complex healthcare environment. This model collaborates with community organizations to form academic-community partnerships that serve students and the local community.
Academic faculty and students are mobilized into these community organizations in the form of Bridges Health, an inter-professional student-led, faculty-guided clinic. The clinic provides health services to marginalized, uninsured, and under-served groups in rural settings, who otherwise would not have access to such health care.
Learn more in the following video:
Faculty from Winona State University pitched their innovative idea for Bridges Health at the Shark Tank Open and received a large seed grant.
The 2021 Shark Tank Open also consists of 22 Innovation Expo presentations going on March 2 – April 7, 2021, and four Innovation Workshops happening on April 9, 2021.
Visit www.MinnState.edu/Shark to learn more and register!
View previously funded innovation projects in the Innovation Gallery or read the Stories of Innovation Series in the ASA Newsletter or watch more Shark Tank Open Success Stories on YouTube.
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