Healthcare Program

Jonas Veterans Healthcare Program

Program goal

Recognizing the tremendous commitment and sacrifices our veterans have made to serve our country, the Jonas Center is committed to do our part to support improved healthcare for this population (Jonas Center, N.d.).

The Jonas Center's vision is to foster new partnerships that help improve veterans' healthcare through nursing and we welcome all contributions to support our efforts.

• Program scope

Starting in the fall of 2012, the Jonas Center will support scholarships for 54 nurses to be trained at the doctoral level (PhD and DNP) on veteran-specific healthcare needs, ranging from clinical to policy to administration to education, to help ensure our veterans are receiving the best possible care. Scholar's research projects will be focused on priority veterans' healthcare need (as identified by the White House and Veterans Administration).

• Program audience

Students, veterans, and the general public.

• Program background

Occasionally, a donor's vision generates a new model of giving that affects countless others. This is the case with Barbara and Donald Jonas, philanthropists and noted art collectors who decided to increase their giving during their lifetimes. In May of 2005, working with the Jewish Communal Fund and Christie's, the Jonas family auctioned 15 of their abstract expressionist artworks and generated $44 million to seed the Barbara and Donald Jonas Family Fund (Jonas Center, N.d.).

In early 2006, the couple established the Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence, a first-of-its-kind philanthropic program dedicated to advancing the nursing profession in New York City through two main areas of activity

Creating a unique grant structure based on the forging of partnerships between schools of nursing and clinical practice settings

Convening opinion leaders to develop solutions to long-standing problems challenging the nursing profession

Rationale for developing this evaluation plan

This is an interesting program to tackle the challenges that veterans face who serve in the armed forces. There is a shortage of nurses that are available to treat veterans so it makes sense to provide scholarships to qualified individuals to help fill these positions.

• Existing program evaluation program model, if available

This program is unique so there really isn't a model available to compare it to.

Works Cited

Jonas Center. (N.d.). History. Retrieved from Jonas Center: http://www.jonascenter.org/who-we-are/history

Jonas Center. (N.d.). Jonas Veterans Healthcare Program. Retrieved from Jonas Center: http://www.jonascenter.org/program-areas/scholars/jonas-veterans-healthcare-program