Center for Nursing Expansion & Innovation
In 2005, the Chancellor’s Office of the California Community Colleges awarded a 5-year grant of $8.5 million to an alliance of Napa Valley College, Solano Community College, and numerous North San Francisco Bay hospitals and agencies.
The main aim of the grant’s funds was to implement the alliance’s Center for Nursing Expansion & Innovation (CNEI) project to increase the number and knowledge of nurses practicing in the North Bay area.
A key feature of the project was to establish the “Wine Country Regional Simulation Center” in the unused 6-bed ICU of the hospital at the California Veteran’s Home campus in Yountville.