Griggs University, Sumner College of Health Sciences is developing their first health science degree in nurse anesthesia. We are now in the accreditation cycle with the Council on Accreditation (COA). This professional accreditation body represents the anesthesia profession and assures the public that all accredited anesthesia schools meet the minimum requirements established for a qualified anesthesia education.

Changes have been made to the location of the new school as we begin the new accreditation process. Due to the difficulties related to California approval for new private schools, Griggs University has made the decision to operate the program in Denver, Colorado. We invite you to follow our progress as we work with the COA to open a new school program. This program will consist of seven months of classroom instruction followed by seventeen months of clinical instruction at sites approved by the COA and GU/SCHS. This program structure is called "front-loaded", meaning that the classroom part of the program is completed before clinical instruction is started. If you are a prospective student from any other state than Colorado, you may do your clinical training back home if you have arranged a training site that receives approval. Please call for further information if you are interested in this arrangement. It takes approximately 3 months to complete the approval for a clinical site, so start early if you want to train at home! Students who have arranged clinical sites will have preference in the admissions process.

We remain committed to rural and inner-city hospitals and nurses that desire to remain in their communities upon graduation.  We will seek to provide support to those hospitals by establishing articulations with the school for them to provide clinical training for their nurses who desire an anesthesia degree.  Although students must commit to seven months attendance in Denver, Colorado, the school will make every effort to facilitate the 14 months of clinical training in the student's home community. 

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