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Program OverviewSamaritan Health Services (SHS) provides excellent health care to the communities it serves. But it does something more. Through a variety of health career and training programs, Samaritan Health Services ensures the continuation of that excellent care well into the future. Through its training programs, SHS also ensures that local residents have opportunities to learn valuable skills, which will enable them to enter the labor market with rewarding and successful health care careers. Health Career and Training CenterIt was in 2002, at the 50th anniversary celebration of Lebanon Community Hospital, that local celebrants received the good news: the hospital, by now named Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital (SLCH), would be the home of a new Health Career and Training Center. The Lebanon hospital’s foundation would provide $250,000 seed money, and Samaritan Health Services would work with Linn-Benton Community College (LBCC) to provide the physical space and classroom training. In just one year, the dream was a reality. Samaritan Health Services designed and built classroom space adjoining Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital. SHS also provided equipment, professional mentoring and nursing assistant instruction. Linn-Benton Community College designed curricula for in-demand health careers and provided instructors and programs. And residents from communities in Linn and Benton counties and beyond clamored to become students in this innovative joint venture. Phase OnePhase One of the Health Career and Training Center project was completed in 2003. It included an internal remodel of the hospital to allow the creation of a clinical skills lab with mock patient units, complete with sinks and storage space for training. The remodel enabled phlebotomy, sterile processing, pharmacy tech and nursing assistant courses to be relocated to SLCH. Also as part of Phase One, the Health Career and Training Center completed the building of new space for its radiology technology program – only the third such program in the entire state. The program began its first class, with 25 students, in June 2003. Students train in energized rooms, allowing them to take real x-rays. In fact, the rooms are so well equipped that they can be used for actual clinical cases in case of emergency. Students also have access to “phantoms,” such as mock forearms with hands attached and other simulated body parts, to give them life-like training experience. The radiology technology training is an intensive 18-month program, which includes both classroom and clinical-site work. Graduates of this program receive education that prepares them to apply for and successfully complete the national ARRT certification examination. Phase TwoPhase Two of the project, completed in 2005, added six classrooms, a simulation lab and advanced technological equipment and resources. The space can accommodate diverse and changing training needs—from local high school classes, to college courses and continuing education for Samaritan Health Services staff. Community groups and businesses are also able to utilize the space for conferences and large or small-scale meetings. “It’s exciting how this career center is growing and expanding,” said Nancy Bell, director of SHS Professional Development and educational coordinator of the center. "With SHS and LBCC working together, we can provide our communities with unprecedented access to wonderful career opportunities.” To inquire about, or to register for classes offered at the HCTC, contact LBCC at (541) 917-4811, or go to www.linnbenton.edu. SHS Employment OpportunitiesFor information about employment opportunities at SHS sites in the mid-Willamette Valley or along the Central Oregon coast, please click here. |
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