Bellin College Health Sciences Resource Center Ribbon Cutting & Open House
Green Bay, WI – (June 25, 2015) Bellin College hosted a ribbon cutting & open house yesterday to unveil the 8,500 square foot expansion project completed by Miron Construction to its Health Sciences Resource Center (HSRC) in the lower level. Members of Greater Green Bay Chamber, community leaders, and representatives from Bellin College, Bellin Health, Miron Construction, Medical College of Wisconsin were among those in attendance.
Construction of the expansion began in January and was completed in May. Bellin College added to its existing simulation lab and added new simulation areas. The new areas include a Birthing Suite that will serve as a permanent home to two of the College’s high-fidelity simulators, Noelle and Baby Hal; an Emergency Room/Intensive Care/Pediatric Suite, a Surgery Suite, and a mammography lab. Bellin College also obtained new equipment for Radologic Sciences; including a C-arm, an MRI simulator, a surgery table, a mammography unit, and two manikins made specifically for radiology education; Damaged Debbie and Wounded Willy to use in the simulation labs.
As part of the expansion project, the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW – Green Bay) joins Bellin College’s Campus in July. MCW – Green Bay will have four exam rooms, a conference room, a monitoring room, a procedure room, and two faculty offices. MCW – Green Bay utilizes standardized patients to learn assessments skills and physical assessment skills. Their standardized patients will have space specific for them to utilize between exams and practice sessions.
The expansion will allow for Bellin College to host simulation and interprofessional educational learning opportunities for students and medical professionals. The College faculty and students will work to create case studies and simulated learning experiences with medical students, nursing students, and radiologic sciences students. The goals are to respect the unique cultures, values, roles and responsibilities and expertise of other health care professions; communicate one’s roles to other professionals; and to use unique and complementary abilities of all members of the team to optimize patient care.
“The expansion will benefit our students by providing enhanced interprofessional training and clinical simulation experiences. This will allow Bellin College the opportunity to be versatile and continue to provide advanced training for our future healthcare providers in the Northeast Wisconsin Area,” said Dr. Connie Boerst, president and CEO of Bellin College.
