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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2014
Vol. CXXIII, No. 172
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF TACOMA Devoted to the Courts, Real Estate, Finance, Industrial Activities, and Publication of Legal Notices
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Tacoma Community College
OfďŹ cials celebrate Harned Center for Health Careers grand opening Posted online Thurs., Sept. 4 Photos By Todd Matthews, Editor Tacoma Community College celebrated the grand opening of a new health care training facility during a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday morning. According to Tacoma Community College officials, the demand for trained health care workers has been increasing at a steady rate in Tacoma and the surrounding communities. There is a shortage of trained health care workers, significant need is projected for the next decade, and current facilities have outlived their design life and have become cramped, inadequate, and out of date, according to college officials. Every year, Tacoma Community College turns away students due to lack of space and insufficient training facilities and equipment. Four years ago, Tacoma Community College received the largest single gift in its history from Tacoma resident H.C. "Joe" Harned, who has funded scholarships at Tacoma Community College for many years. The college's board of trustees voted to name the new facility the H.C. "Joe" Harned Center for Health Careers. The Harned Center for Health Careers is home to all health care training, and the building design aims to simulate the environment of a health care facility, allowing students to learn in a setting based on the hospitals or clinics they will work in once they graduate. The new center offers state-of-the-art equipment, significantly increased teaching and learning space, and allows more students to obtain the training they need to further their careers. The three-story, 69,700-square-foot building offers 11 general classrooms, three computer labs, and instructional spaces for respiratory therapy, nursing, and health information management. A lower level will house instructional space for diagnostic medical sonography, emergency medical care, and radiologic sciences. The building will also boast a variety of unique features, including energy efficiency measures such as a large atrium space in the middle of the building with abundant natural lighting and highly energy efficient lighting, heating, plumbing, control, and mechanical systems; heating and cooling CONTINUED systems that use ground source ON PAGE 2 (geo-thermal) technology; two
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