Arizona Health Education Alliance

Creighton University Arizona Health Education Alliance partners have exceptional and demonstrated track records, reputations, and proven expertise in operating academic medical centers, teaching hospitals, medical schools, medical training, and health care delivery systems, continue to seek to collaborate in order to be at the forefront of advanced medical education, research, and training new generations of physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals, all of which will improve the health outcomes of our community, state, and nation.

The Creighton Alliance partnership is a framework for collaboration that will leverage expertise and resources to facilitate shared interests in collaboration across multiple disciplines of health science, clinical learning environment, research, and teaching medical students, residents, fellows, nurses, allied health, and related health professionals.

In 2017, Creighton University, Dignity Health St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, Valleywise Health, and District Medical Group, entered into a strategic partnership to strengthen and expand the Graduate Medical Education programs offered by each institution. The move by the four core partners and affiliate member Dignity Health Medical Group brought together the administration of the residency and fellowship programs previously managed by each member under the Creighton University Arizona Health Education Alliance, with Creighton University serving as the sponsoring entity. The Alliance effectively becomes one of Arizona’s largest GME providers, with an exciting opportunity to play a major role in the training of new generations of physicians and other health care professionals.