KVCC’s Patient Care Academy taking applications

Kalamazoo Valley Community College is inviting trainees to its first Patient Care Academy. Instructors will train students in entry level jobs in the health-care industry at the new academy, which runs June 21-Aug. 31 at the Michigan Technical Education Center on KVCC’s Groves Campus. The academy is now accepting applications for 12 slots.Training will take place Mondays through Thursdays from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. for 10 weeks. The fee is $1,995. Financial assistance is available through Michigan Works and Kalamazoo Promise scholarships.Academy students will receive training that lays the foundation to start a successful health care career, says Lesa Strausbaugh, KVCC’s director of academies.”This academy can be a springboard to careers in other health-care professions,” Strausbaugh says. “For example, those on a waiting list for nursing can get this training in the interim and begin working in health care before beginning their nursing studies.”Graduates could land in jobs such as a certified nurse assistant, a patient-care assistant or technician, a ward clerk or a medical-records clerk and qualified to work in long-term care, rehabilitation centers, hospice settings, medical offices and hospitals.Writer: Kathy JenningsSource: Lesa Strausbaugh, KVCC