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Projects:
Lakeland Community College
Health Technologies Building
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This
37,000 square foot classroom addition includes a lecture hall, classrooms,
learning resource center, interactive learning center, offices,
and administrative areas. Also included are laboratories, dental
suite, hospital mock-up rooms, x-ray, emergency technology, and
laboratory medicine facilities.
The New Health Technologies
Building unites all the related Medical Programs to a single structure.
Included is the nursing program, emergency medical technology, ophthalmic
technology, dental hygiene and x-ray technology. A multi-story atrium
links the four-story building to the adjacent campus complex.
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The ground level houses an
extensive twelve-chair dental clinic, complete with four x-ray booths
and darkroom for film processing for easy pedestrian access. There is
also a three bed ICU lab that shares a common classroom with the emergency
medical technology lab on this level.
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The
first floor is a continuation of the major public areas of the campus,
and contains the main classrooms and lecture hall, computer room
and learning center. This lecture hall has 225 seats and with the
adjacent seminar room is connected to the cctv satellite system
for video teleconferences. The 26 station computer classroom is
adjacent to he interactive learning center which has another 26
computer/cd rom individual, semi-enclosed work stations.
Main nursing facilities
are on the second floor. Included is the main student skills laboratory
with eight complete hospital head wall set-ups. Adjacent to this
are a patient simulation room and a demonstration room; both of
which can be viewed from an observation/seminar room.
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The Histology Lab and the
Medical Technology labs are served by a common supply room. In addition
to two classrooms, and a number of facility offices, there is an x-ray
suite and the ophthalmic tech lab; which was originally a classroom and
converted to this function at the end of construction.
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