Published February 08. 2023 01:58PM
by Jim Marsh Special to The Press
Lehigh Valley Health Network officially opened its new Healthcare Education Center in Center Valley Feb. 3.
The facility, located at 3900 Sierra Circle, with access off the Center Valley Parkway, will serve as the central hub of education and training programs for the health network.
“This new building represents the legacy of exceptional clinical education at LVHN and will serve as a premier education and training facility for today’s and tomorrow’s caregivers,” Dr. Brian A. Nester, LVHN’s president and CEO, said.
“LVHN is among the top health networks for preparing future generations of nurses, physicians and health care professionals, and we are proud to be one of Pennsylvania’s largest teaching hospitals,” Nester continued.
Nester said the LVHN Center for Healthcare Education is the place where clinicians will go to learn new skills and elevate their profession so they can deliver excellent care.
The facility will consolidate two of the network’s department of education sites into one 70,000-square-foot location, with dedicated space for education, administration and support services.
Nester said growing LVHN’s medical education programs will help the network attract the best and brightest health care professionals.
The new training center features full-size state-of-the art diagnostic and operating suites and multiple patient rooms that mimic those found in the network’s working hospitals.
LVHN’s department of education supports 1,200 medical, nursing and other students, 340 residents and fellows and has provided 190,000 instructional hours of professional development.
Press photo by Jim Marsh Lehigh Valley Health Network officially opens its new 70,000-square-foot Center for Healthcare Education at 3900 Sierra Circle, off Center Valley Parkway, Center Valley, Feb. 3.
PRESS PHOTOS BY JIM MARSH Dr. Brian Nester, president and CEO of Lehigh Valley Health Network, addresses those gathered Feb. 3 for the ribbon cutting of the network's new Center for Healthcare Education in Center Valley.
Community and Lehigh Valley Health Network dignitaries cut a ribbon to officially open the hospital network's new Center for Healthcare Education in Center Valley Feb. 3.
Patient rooms replicating hospital scenarios will allow caregivers to increase their skills under controlled conditions and allow training personnel to broadcast real-time learning lessons to other caregivers in similar adjoining training rooms.
Full-size operating and diagnostic suites will allow clinicians to increase their skills in situations mimicking hospital settings.
A clinical training lab will help teach student phlebotomists to draw blood samples under realistic conditions.
