GED graduates
Adult Basic Education More than 2,325 adults prepared for the GED exam, learned English or improved their academic skills through the five Johnson County Adult Education Program centers. JCAE is sponsored jointly by the college and the Johnson County Library. Johnson County Adult Education helped more than 210 students prepare for and enter into postsecondary education. In addition, the Migrant Family Literacy Program provided preschool and literacy services for 34 families in the Olathe school district. The program provides basic life skills, employment counseling, parenting and after-school tutoring to children and adults in Olathe.
Health and Human Services JCCC’s Health and Human Services continuing education division offered workshops and seminars targeting the educational needs of healthcare providers from nearly every area of the field. Community partnerships included the University of Kansas Memory and Alzheimer’s Care Program, El Centro, Aberdeen Village, Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services, the Alzheimer’s Association Heartland Chapter, Comfort Keepers Home Care, Kansas City Southwest Clinical Society, and many others. Certificates in Medical Coding, Kansas Adult Care Home Administrator, and the Kansas Assisted Living Operator course have grown in popularity with the need for well-trained staff in aging services.
HITECH Workforce and Education Summit
The phlebotomy technician course continues to be highly successful and moved to JCCC’s Olathe Health Education Center (OHEC) in summer 2013. The pharmacy technician program graduated its first class from the didactic and simulation portion of the course and completed externship experiences in September. Olathe Medical Center, Shawnee Mission Medical Center and Ball’s Foods Price Chopper pharmacies participated in the program. (Contracts were pending with Menorah, Walgreen’s, Saint Luke’s and Starks pharmacies.) The American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists will conduct a site visit for JCCC’s application for national accreditation in late 2013. This would allow JCCC to be the only Kansas program east of Hays and Hutchinson to attain this prestigious status. With the ICD-10 implementation in 2015, the medical coding course will adapt to meet the tremendous strain this change will put on existing and emerging professionals. Courses to update currently certified coders will be offered in late 2013.
Health Information Systems (HITECH)
Delivered in partnership with Hutchinson Community College, the program is accessible to students throughout the Kansas City metro area and across the state of Kansas via on-campus and online classes. The new HITECH video conferencing room gives distance-learning students the face-to-face experience of the classroom without travel. Students enjoy real workforce experience in the health IT environment thanks to industry partners like Cerner and area employers, putting them on the right track for successful employment. An H-1B Department of Labor grant gives support to train students, provides internship dollars to employers, and builds career pathways with four-year educational institutions. In April 2013, JCCC held the first regional Health IT Workforce and Education Summit, convening employers, policymakers, associations, government agencies, education leaders and students. The summit addressed common challenges in the emerging field, filling the workforce gap and best practices in the health IT industry.
JCCC’s HITECH (health information technology) program offered two new 20-hour certificates that combine four of the six nationally identified workforce curriculum roles: Health Information Systems Workflow Management and Training Specialist and the Health Information Systems Implementation and Support Specialist.
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