Johnson County Community College
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Julie Haas, Director, ext. 3120
Peggy Graham, Writer, ext. 3425
Tyler Cundith, Sports Information Director, ext. 3122

2/26/08
Story by Peggy Graham

JCCC Healthcare Simulation Center Plans Dedication

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. ­– The Johnson County Community College nursing program will dedicate its new Healthcare Simulation Center with a ribbon cutting at 1 p.m. for invited donors, alumni and healthcare colleagues followed by an open house at 3 p.m. for the general public Friday, March 7, on the first floor of the Classroom Laboratory Building.

The 1,500-square-foot center has four general medical-surgery rooms and a large suite that can function as an operating room, labor/delivery room, emergency room or multi-bed recovery room.

The center is populated by highly sophisticated patient simulators that can be programmed with hundreds of symptoms of acute and chronic diseases/disorders and respond physiologically to treatment. The patient simulation center has 10 simulators – two pediatric and eight adults, including one birthing simulator with newborn.

“This type of center is very unusual. Other nursing programs may have individual  rooms for simulation but not a whole hospital environment as realistic as this one,” said Kathy Carver, JCCC Zamierowski Family Endowed Professor for Nursing and Medical Simulation.

For more information, contact Kristin McDaniel, development coordinator, Development and Alumni Relations, 913-469-8500, ext. 2716.

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