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The Consortium for Advanced Practice Providers offers programmatic accreditation for postgraduate nurse practitioner and joint nurse practitioner and physician assistant training programs, designed by NP and PA postgraduate program directors, for NP and PA postgraduate training directors. The Consortium exists to support new and ongoing postgraduate training programs for nurse practitioners and physician assistants in the achievement and maintenance of the highest standards of rigor and quality, consistent with achieving the goal of an expert healthcare workforce prepared to meet the needs of patients and the society as a whole. |
The Consortium’s parent organization; Community Health Center, Inc. celebrates its 50th anniversary on May 1st. As CHC looks ahead to the next 50 years, we invite you to take a quick look back celebrating our evolution. From the tie-dye vibes of the 1970’s, to today’s cutting-edge innovation, it’s the story of a restless organization growing […]
The National Nurse Practitioner Residency & Fellowship Training Consortium (“The Consortium”) Receives Federal Recognition as Accrediting Agency by the U.S. Department of Education Middletown, Conn., January 31, 2022: The National Nurse Practitioner Residency & Fellowship Training Consortium (the Consortium) is pleased to announce its federal recognition as an accrediting agency by the U.S. Department of […]
Kerry and I have decided to begin a new tradition. Together, as past and present Executive Directors, we are jointly sending you a note of reflection and thanks. We have had too many seasons battling disease, crises, and distress. Now, the winter solstice is behind us and spring is on the distant horizon. There is […]
HRSA’s Health Workforce Connector (HWC) is a free Federal resource allowing anyone to search for over 5,000 jobs and training opportunities at over 30,000 health care facilities in Health Professional Shortage Areas nationwide. Click here to learn more: https://connector.hrsa.gov/connector/
It is my pleasure to share our newest blog and introduce our guest blogger, who is no stranger to the Consortium or to writing blogs. Candice Rettie, Ph.D. was the Consortium’s inaugural Executive Director and has graciously offered to write this quarter’s blog. Thank you Candice. We appreciate everything you have done for the consortium […]
Program alumni share what their postgraduate residency and fellowship training meant to them in the below video.
The National Nurse Practitioner Residency and Fellowship Consortium (NNPRFTC) is pleased to announce the initial accreditation of Community Healthcare Network’s Primary Care and Psychiatric Community Healthcare Nurse Practitioner Fellowship Programs, sponsored by Community Healthcare Network headquartered in New York, NY. NNPRFTC’s Accreditation Commission’s initial programmatic accreditation is for three years. Congratulations to Community Healthcare Network’s […]
The National Nurse Practitioner Residency and Fellowship Consortium (NNPRFTC) is pleased to announce the initial accreditation of another postgraduate NP/PA Residency Training Program: Petaluma Health Center’s Joint NP/PA Postgraduate Residency Training Program, sponsored by Petaluma Health Center headquartered in Petaluma, CA. NNPRFTC’s Accreditation Commission’s initial programmatic accreditation is for three years. Congratulations to Petaluma Health Center’s […]
Who among us has the same thoughts, ideas and assumptions that we had ten, eleven, or twelve short months ago? How could we? A plague has torn through our country, unabated as I write this. While largely nondiscriminatory in its deadliness, COVID-19 has shone a light on a health care system rife with, even defined […]
Summer is almost over and Fall is in the air. It’s a time for new beginnings, when many programs are welcoming their new cohort of trainees, often before the dust has settled from the previous cohort’s graduation. I think we would all agree, this was a summer like no other. Between the COVID-19 pandemic, the […]
