By Emily Andersen

The Gazette

MARION, Iowa — A mobile EMS training program run by the University of Iowa College of Nursing will be able to continue providing on-site simulation training in rural Iowa after the nonprofit Wellmark Foundation announced in August a $5.3 million investment, which will support the program for the next five years.

Simulation in Motion — Iowa, or SIM-IA, got started in 2022 with an $8 million grant from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust. The program brings simulation training opportunities to emergency responders around the state via a semitruck, which has a fake ER and ambulance built into the back.

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Jacinda Bunch, the senior program adviser for SIM-IA and a cl

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