Officials In The Hurry Up To Keep A Nursing School At Huron Community Campus

FCA-HCC2The education of future nurses at the Huron Community Campus is at a sudden and major crossroads…

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Nursing program advisory board member Dr. Robert Hohm addressed the Huron City Commission Monday explaining that the trend in nursing education is moving away from two-year programs, like the one offered at the Huron Community Campus through Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell…

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Hohm told the City Commission they are looking at a number of solutions to continuing a nursing program at the Huron Community Campus, possibly looking at a venture with Lake Area Technical Institute in Watertown. Huron Regional Medical Center CEO David Dick says a nursing program in Huron is critical to H-R-M-C…

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Dick says they want to keep a new program as close to what the D-W-U program was but that more travel may be required….

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The advisory board asked for and received from the City Commission, permission to pursue options to continue the nursing program at Huron Community Campus and hope to bring a proposal back to the Commission at a later date.