Located at 20000 Kingwood Drive, Kingwood, the new 49,440-square-foot facility features state-of-the-art medical spaces for the college's health care programs, including dental assisting, dental hygiene, nursing, occupation therapy assistant and respiratory care programs. Construction on the $18.8 million center began in spring 2020 and wrapped up in fall 2021.
"The HPC has state-of-the-art instructional spaces, which will allow many of our health care programs to grow," said David Baty, vice president of instruction at LSC-Kingwood, in a statement. "This center allows us to offer more biology, chemistry and anatomy/physiology classes in our science instructional building."
According to a Feb. 17 news release, facility highlights include simulation, virtual and cardiopulmonary labs; a 24-chair dental clinic; two skills labs with 11 hospital beds; a simulation lab with eight surgical areas, three ICU rooms, and a labor and delivery area; a life-skills teaching lab; a patient environment lab; and a rehab gym.
"Our main goal is to prepare students to work in various health care settings. Those sites include hospitals, dental clinics, nursing and rehabilitation facilities, and other medical clinics," said Dr. Ryan Chabarria, interim dean of health occupations and biological sciences, in a statement.
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