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HIGH S TAKE S L E A RNING < < < A Wise Investment in a Healthy Tomorrow Flash forward to spring 2013. You walk into Howard Community College's brand care programs with the best equipment health care workforce in this area. Across the available today. board – for contributing to individual health The additional space will also allow new 113,000-square-foot, $49 million as well as overall community health – HCC is health sciences building. As you make your HCC to add four new health sciences way down the halls, you glance in the door- programs in response to a growing need ways to see what looks like a catheteriza- in the state's workforce: physical therapist developed the plans for the innovative new tion lab where cardiovascular technicians assistant, medical diagnostic sonography, building, which was funded by the Howard are inserting a pacemaker into a patient, a medical laboratory technician, and dental County government and the State of Mary- hospital intensive care unit where nurses hygienist programs. The Horizon Founda- land. "The new home for HCC's nursing are checking IVs and giving injections, a tion, a private foundation based in Co- and allied health programs will include room where a radiologic technologist is lumbia that addresses community health instructional spaces designed to support taking digital x-ray images of a patient's issues through strategic grants, community advanced hands-on methodologies," says body, and an ambulance where emergency programs, and partnerships, awarded HCC Edward Kohls, principal architect. "The medical technicians/paramedics are trying a grant of $356,000 to fund four faculty building's three floors will be organized to keep a young man alive. members who will provide leadership and into hubs to provide informal student gath- design these new programs. ering spaces strategically located between Welcome to the new world of teaching, "HCC does an excellent job of working which along with state-of-the art class- one of the prime movers." Baltimore design firm Ayers Saint Gross major teaching spaces." rooms and lecture halls offers cutting-edge with the county and state to identify job simulation labs – the powerful modern expectations and educate students to fill these simulators stimulate learning learning tools for health sciences students. openings," says Dr. Richard Krieg, president Every 30 seconds in this country, When the new health sciences facility and CEO of The Horizon Foundation. "I am someone is having a heart attack, according opens, it will provide much-needed space confident that the new facility and top-quality to Bill Fisher, associate professor and to educate more students in more health programs will contribute to excellence in the director of HCC's cardiovascular technology (CVT) program. "The volume of demand for cardiovascular technicians is growing and, at the same time, the technology used to treat and diagnose the coronary arteries is always changing," Fisher says. "Our biggest challenge is ensuring our training reflects the newest technologies that our clinical partners are using." One tool that will help students prepare for the complex clinical environment is HCC's new $150,000 state-of-the-art simulator, allowing students to use diagnostic imaging equipment and cardiovascular processes to treat simulated patients suffering from a variety of diseases and conditions. Simulation uses role play, technology tools, and computerized mannequins Instructors can monitor students treating simulated patients. 8 Pathways | Howard Community College Fall 2011