{"id":48189,"date":"2024-05-09T13:43:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T13:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/?p=48189"},"modified":"2024-05-09T13:53:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T13:53:23","slug":"future-healthcare-heroes-completion-ceremony-honors-18-grads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/2024\/05\/09\/future-healthcare-heroes-completion-ceremony-honors-18-grads\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Healthcare Heroes completion ceremony honors 18 grads!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We\u2019re celebrating the future of healthcare! Austin Community College District\u2019s (ACC) latest completion ceremony honored 18 students from Eastside Early College High School (ECHS). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 75 people attended to congratulate the students\u2019 success and perseverance. Susan Roberts-Bradley, Clinical Nurse Resource Manager at St. David\u2019s South Austin Medical Center, served as the keynote speaker.<\/p>\n\n\n

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    Future Healthcare Heroes graduate walks stage at completion ceremony<\/strong><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    New Student Orientation \/ Parent & Family Orientation event on Tuesday, February 27, 2024, at the Highland Campus Welcome Center.<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    About the Program<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The ceremony was part of the Future Healthcare Heroes grant initiative, a partnership between ACC\u2019s Health Sciences Division, Eastside ECHS, HCA Healthcare\u2014Healthier Tomorrow Fund, and St. David\u2019s HealthCare. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The initiative aims to identify and nurture rising juniors and seniors interested in pursuing careers in healthcare after high school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Over a six month period, the Eastside ECHS Future Healthcare Heroes received:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • Information from over 50 speakers, <\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Obtained a Basic Life Support certification and a Stop the Bleed certification,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Connected with a designated healthcare professional mentor who provided guidance and support,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Developed their own Healthcare Career Resource Handbook, <\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Toured ACC\u2019s Health Sciences Departments with faculty interaction,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Attended a comprehensive Health Career Fair at St. David\u2019s Institute for Learning, <\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Attended a session at ACC\u2019s Welcome Center, <\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Participated in hands-on demonstrations at the ACC Highland Campus Sim Lab,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Practiced suturing and venipunctures, monitored stats on babies and adults, and learned patient care basics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      As a testament to their dedication, students who completed these activities were eligible for a stipend as part of the grant program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      We\u2019re celebrating the future of healthcare! Austin Community College District\u2019s (ACC) latest completion ceremony honored 18 students from Eastside Early College High School (ECHS).  More than 75 people attended to congratulate the students\u2019 success and perseverance. Susan Roberts-Bradley, Clinical Nurse Resource Manager at St. David\u2019s South Austin Medical Center, served as the keynote speaker. About […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":48197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[488,509,486,147,223,483],"class_list":["post-48189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-for-you","tag-commencement","tag-future-healthcare-heroes","tag-graduation","tag-health-science","tag-healthcare","tag-spring-2024-graduation","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}