Eisenhower Health OpensState-of-the-Art Simulation Center

Eisenhower Health physicians, nurses and clinical staff can now practice and sharpen their skills in its new John Stauffer Center for Innovation in Learning — the area’s most advanced simulation center. Thanks to the generous philanthropy of the John Stauffer Charitable Trust and the Thomas and Elizabeth Grainger Family, this innovative training center includes ICU, OBGYN/NICU, medical/surgical, and emergency rooms, each fully equipped with the world's most advanced patient simulator manikins by Gaumard®.

The Gaumard simulators are highly sophisticated, providing a very lifelike experience that allows Eisenhower's clinical staff to learn high-risk procedures in a low-risk environment. “It's about sharpening essential critical thinking skills,” says Solomon Sebt, MD, Medical Director of the John Stauffer Center for Innovation in Learning, Eisenhower Health. “The manikins can make voice commands, perform functions that simulate real-life emergent medical conditions, sweat, bleed, cry, urinate, and use artificial intelligence to converse with learners in real-time using genuine responses.”

“We want these simulations to mimic how it is on a hospital unit, so participants can receive the best training possible, and our patients continue to receive the safest, highest standard of care,” notes Dr. Sebt.