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Employ Florida Banner Centers

 
Employ Florida Banner Center: Heatlh Sciences

Key Program Contacts:
Dr. Louise Pitts, Valencia Community College, (407) 582-1412, lpitts@valenciacc.edu; Jill Geraghty, VCC, (407) 582-5427, jgeraghty2@valenciacc.edu

Web Site:
www.valenciacc.edu/
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Florida’s health care industry will play a major role in shaping training developed by the Employ Florida Banner Center for Health Sciences. Based at Valencia Community College in Orlando, the program is funded by a $500,000 grant from Workforce Florida, Inc. Its major partners are: Lake-Sumter Community College in Leesburg, Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission, Seminole Community College in Sanford, University of Central Florida and Workforce Central Florida. The program focuses on workforce development in Florida’s nursing and allied health fields.

In its first year, the center is developing curricula for three new advanced certifications preparing participants who have an associate’s degree or a bachelor’s degree in a health care field for advanced certification in Magnetic Resonance Imaging/Radiography, Computed Tomography /Radiography or Polysomnography/Respiratory Therapy. It also is making an existing paramedic course at Valencia Community College available online to meet increasing demand for Web-based training. And it is starting to develop a new Associate of Science Degree in Health Information Management Technology at Seminole Community College. Additionally, the center will focus on expanding nursing training through several initiatives including offering training in simulation labs at Valencia Community College and Lake-Sumter Community College to about 40 incumbent workers, enrolling about 250 people in entry-level nursing programs and offering a “boot camp” for about three dozen nursing faculty members. The Banner Center also is a major player in the 2007 Florida Nursing Summit.

Industry representation on the Advisory Council includes executives from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida, HCA Healthcare, Health Central, Florida Association for Homes and Services for the Aging, Florida Hospital, Florida Hospital Association, Florida Health Care Association, Orlando Regional Healthcare and Osceola Regional Medical Center.


Key Program Contact: Dr. Louise Pitts, Valencia Community College, (407) 582-1412, lpitts@valenciacc.edu; Catherine Kirkpatrick, VCC, (407) 582-5427, ckirkpatrick1@valenciacc.edu

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