Community project funding/congressionally directed spending - construction - to meet the growing demand for advanced learning technology smcc seeks to renovate a floor of our health science building…

This federal Project Grant award of $4,100,000 from the Department of Health and Human Services (CFDA 93.493 - Congressional Directives program) will enable Southern Maine Community College (a sub-awardee of the Maine Community College System) to renovate a floor of its Health Science Building to create a state-of-the-art healthcare simulation center. The simulation center will provide students preparing for careers in healthcare with a realistic, hands-on learning environment to practice various medical scenarios, from home settings to emergency rooms. This will significantly enhance the college's ability to offer additional clinical simulation, testing, and patient care training to students entering the healthcare field in Maine. The project will be completed over a 3-year period from September 2024 to September 2027.

Community project funding/congressionally directed spending - construction - to meet the growing demand for advanced learning technology smcc seeks to renovate a floor of our health science building to bring together our array of health programs in a simulation center that more closely resembles the settings the students will be exposed to in their careers. We would simulate various environments from a home setting to a hospital - from doctors' offices to the emergency room. This will increase the college's ability to offer additional clinical simulation, testing and patient care for student preparing for career in heath care in maine. Healthcare simulation provides a safe, realistic and hand-on technology-based, experiential environment for students to practice and learn with faculty and other technicians.