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LBWCC students pledge to complete degrees Gulf Coast Medical Center announces name change
Special to Halifax Media Group OPP, Ala. — Statistics show the surest way for anyone to land a job in his chosen field is to finish college and earn a degree or certificate, and that’s exactly what students at Lurleen B. Wallace Community College promised to do at the recent “Commit to Complete” event. Bridgett Landers of Westville, a nursing student at LBWCC in Opp, Ala., was among the students who learned how the United States has fallen from first to 16th among the 34 industrialized economies in the world when measuring the percentage of citizens having earned a college credential or degree and the effects that has on national security and democracy in general. They also learned that within five years, 65 percent of all new jobs will require a postsecondary credential. Those are only two of the reasons students gathered to sign a mass pledge to complete their associate degrees or certificates before leaving community college for transfer or to enter the job market, part of a national movement sponsored by Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society. At the recent event, hosted by the Alpha Beta
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Bridgett Landers of Westville, a nursing student at Lurlene B. Wallace Community College in Opp, Ala., signs the pledge banner to complete her degree or certificate. Eta chapter of PTK, administrators, faculty and staff also signed the pledge, committing themselves to do whatever they can to facilitate completion of student credentials. “It is vitally important to your future to complete a college credential,” LBWCC President Dr. Herb Riedel told the group. “Even if you plan to transfer, complete your associate’s degree first. Then, in case you are faced with a sudden, unexpected need to enter the workforce, you will have a better chance to find employment than those without a credential.”
PTK members are serving as the student arm of the Community College Completion Challenge, a national education initiative. Three years ago, leaders of six national organizations representing the nation’s 1,200 community colleges signed The Call to Action, a pledge to increase student completion rates by 50 percent over the next decade. PTK was the only student organization asked to participate and launched the Community College Completion Corps in response. Learn more at www.cccompletioncorps. org . At the 2010 White House
Summit for Community Colleges, President Barack Obama called for community colleges to produce an additional 5 million degrees and certificates in the next 10 years, part of a goal to restore the United States as the world’s leader in college graduates. Students who complete their degrees or certificates will earn an average of $500,000 more over the course of their careers than their peers who did not complete. In addition, individuals with credentials are less likely to become unemployed than their co-workers who did not earn credentials.
PANAMA CITY — Gulf Coast Medical Center announced on Monday its plans to change its name to Gulf Coast Regional Medical Center. As part of the regional strategy, Gulf Coast Regional Medical Center has formed clinical affiliation partnerships with Northwest Florida Community Hospital in Chipley, Doctors Memorial Hospital in Bonifay, and Jackson Hospital in Marianna. Through the affiliations, Gulf Coast Regional Medical Center can partner with rural hospitals to provide state-of-the-art services to the residents that live in those wonderful communities. Additionally, Gulf Coast Regional Medical Center has partnered with InTouch Health, providing 24/7 telemedicine stroke care to patients across North Florida. This
program allows physicians to provide real-time audio/video consultations, at the patient’s bedside, with a moment’s notice from anywhere in the world. By receiving immediate access to a Board-Certified Neurologist, and prompt treatment, brain function can be saved. In October, the hospital unveiled a new 42-bed critical care wing that includes a 20-bed adult-level Intensive Care Unit, an 18-bed NICU and a fourbed PICU. The ICU capacity was increased by eight beds and it contains all of the latest equipment needed for the delivery of evidence-based care, while focusing on the patient and providing a family-centered approach to care. The NICU expanded from a 10-bed Level II unit with the capacity to provide Level III care in January 2014.
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