RHIC Simulation Center

10/29/2026

Meet Daves! Our new GA! We are so excited to have her on our RHIC simulation team! 🩺

10/29/2026

Meet Abby! Our new GA! We are so excited to have her on our RHIC simulation team! 🩺

10/29/2026

Meet Paige! Our new GA! We are so excited to have her on our RHIC simulation team! 🩺

10/22/2026

🩺✨ Three specialties, endless opportunities to learn!

Our Interprofessional Education (IPE) Simulation Event was filled with hands-on learning, critical thinking, and real-world experiences! Students from Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, and Speech-Language Pathology put their knowledge and skills into action through exciting simulation scenarios!

🖐️ Occupational Therapy (OT): Helping individuals build independence and confidence in everyday activities!

💪 Physical Therapy (PT): Helping individuals improve strength, movement, balance, and mobility!

🗣️ Speech-Language Pathology (SLP): Helping individuals improve communication, cognitive skills, and swallowing abilities!

Each profession brings unique skills to patient care, and these simulations gave students the opportunity to practice, problem-solve, and grow as future healthcare professionals!

Different specialties. Unique skills. One passion for helping others! 💙✨

A huge thank you to all who helped make this day possible!

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10/21/2026

Continued support for our rural, Community Health Centers is VITAL for ongoing healthcare for communities across Indiana....and we support our friends, colleagues, and Partners at Valley Professionals Community Health Centers!!!

Recognizing a champion for Indiana’s Community Health Centers!

Today, IPHCA presented Governor Mike Braun with the inaugural Governor Mike Braun Community Health Center Champion Award. Created in his honor, the award recognizes extraordinary support for health centers and the Hoosiers who depend on them.

His administration’s decision to exempt health centers from proposed Medicaid 340B changes helped protect resources for affordable medications, behavioral health care, and other essential services.

Thank you, Governor Braun, for listening to health center leaders and supporting access to affordable care in Indiana’s rural and urban communities.

https://www.indianapca.org/iphca-honors-governor-mike-braun-with-inaugural-community-health-center-champion-award/

10/21/2026

Outstanding selections by our friends and Partners at Ivy Tech.

10/02/2026

Congratulations to our friend and colleague, Brittany Waggoner for this recognition!

As the Indiana Hospital Association’s Maternal and Quality Improvement Advisor, Brittany has worked with the RHIC providing education on Obstetrical Emergencies to rural hospitals across Indiana. She is simply outstanding, caring, and dedicated to improving outcomes for pregnant mothers and their families in underserved communities across the state.

We cannot be more proud of our work with her!!!

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08/16/2026

Two of the RHIC's Partners, Union Health System and West Central Indiana - Area Health Education Center have an outstanding program geared towards promoting careers in healthcare. Information to be involved is included.

08/11/2026

It is such a pleasure to announce that Dr. Kailee Burdick, DNP, RN, CNE, CHSE, has recently been named the RHIC's new Associate Director of Education and Curriculum. Kailee has been an integral member of the RHIC team for nearly five years, most recently serving as our Clinical Simulation Specialist, and we are thrilled to see her step into this new leadership role.

Since joining RHIC in 2021, Dr. Burdick has been central to building and advancing our human simulation program — coordinating simulation planning and implementation, strengthening our standardized patient program, and advancing interprofessional curriculum across our simulation center. Her impact reflects a rare combination of expertise: a Doctor of Nursing Practice, dual national certifications as a Certified Nurse Educator (CNE) and Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator (CHSE), years of academic faculty experience as a nursing educator, and more than a decade of clinical practice in critical and cardiac care. She is also an active scholar, with peer-reviewed publications, national conference presentations, and co-authored chapters in a nationally distributed nurse educator certification exam-prep text.

In her new role, Kailee will lead our Education and Curriculum efforts, providing strategic direction and day-to-day leadership for all simulation-based educational programming, curriculum development, and pedagogical quality across our nine partner institutions. She will guide our faculty and educator development efforts, advance our interprofessional education strategy, and serve as RHIC's primary point of expertise in simulation education — all in support of the learners and communities we serve throughout rural health.

This appointment reflects RHIC's ongoing commitment to educational excellence and to the growth of leaders from within our own community. Kailee's deep institutional knowledge, her dedication to our mission, and the trust she has earned across our partnerships make her exceptionally well-suited to carry this work forward.

07/14/2026

Alaina Kaelber is one of the RHIC's outstanding American Heart Association CPR Instructors. She is also a paramedic and firefighter with Transcare Ambulance and the Honey Creek and Sugar Fire Departments.

Alaina was on the scene when her husband, Billy, suffered a sudden cardiac arrest and thankfully was there to perform CPR on him until first responders arrived.

Billy survived and is doing well now, thanks to his wife's training and expertise. We could not be prouder of Alaina, who was recognized this week by the American Heart Association with the Heartsaver Hero Award. Here is her story!!

Alaina Kaelber, a paramedic and volunteer firefighter, was awarded the Heartsaver Hero Award for saving her husband’s life after he suffered a sudden cardiac arrest episode while on vacation.