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West Bend Health and Wellness Corporate Challenge participants

From May 3rd to June 2nd, Moraine Park Technical College staff will be participating in the West Bend Corporate Challenge, organized by the Kettle Moraine YMCA.  The Moraine Park team, which is sponsored by the Health & Wellness Committee, is open to all Moraine Park employees, no matter which Campus they call home.  Continue reading

May 10, 2016by Therese Melaney
Achievement, Health Careers & Wellness

Success for Seth

Lab Tech student

I’m Linda Bau, Moraine Park‘s Medical Laboratory Technician program director, and I’m pleased to announce that one of our students, Seth Bubolz, has received the The American Society of Clinical Pathologists (ASCP) National Student Honor Award. Seth will be graduating in May. Continue reading

May 2, 2016by Linda Bau
Health Careers & Wellness

Take the First Step to a Health Care Career!

health care students

Moraine Park is helping to combat the skilled worker shortage in the health care field by offering a Medical Assistant training program at the West Bend Campus. The three-year “ACT for Health Care” TAACCCT 4 grant from the U.S. Department of Labor was awarded in October, 2014. Continue reading

April 21, 2016by Anne Lemke
Achievement, Alumni, Health Careers & Wellness

“Too old for school.” Hardly. Introducing our 2016 Student of the Year

Student of the year

Being passed over for new job opportunities, but feeling too old to go back to school. Such was the conflicted crossroads in life for Becky Powel, 48, of Cedarburg, who had already spent a quarter century in the workforce but increasingly felt stuck in place.

If there was any light at the end of this darkening tunnel, Becky admits she had a hard time seeing it through clouds of frustration. Continue reading

April 15, 2016by Andrew Pantzlaff
Health Careers & Wellness

Prediction becomes reality: MLT employment opportunities booming

Moraine Park female staff type on keyboard

The employment opportunities for Medical Laboratory Technician (MLT) students are fantastic!

I have recently been contacted by several recruiters in state (Marshfield, Mayo, Affinity and Aurora Healthcare Systems) and out of state that are searching for MLT candidates. I also attended the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Scientists  – Clinical Laboratory Educators Conference, where I heard more about the need for MLTs to fill vacancies in laboratories across the United States. Continue reading

March 17, 2016by Linda Bau
Health Careers & Wellness

Interested in taking the first step to a health care career?

Moraine Park CNA grads 2015

If you are interested in taking the first step to a health care career,  CNA summer boot camps – through our U.S. Department of Labor grant – might be the way to go!  The first step to apply to the grant is to attend an upcoming spring information session.  Sign up here!  There are dates and time choices available at all 3 campuses. Continue reading

March 9, 2016by Anne Lemke
Health Careers & Wellness

Medical lab technician: Moraine Park’s program changed my life!

Female Moraine Park Medical Lab Tech

Guest speaker, Claudia Pitt Galligan, an alumni of our Medical Laboratory Technician (MLT) program, recently came back to Moraine Park Technical College to speak to some of our second-year students and share how much this program has meant to her. If you’re unaware, Medical laboratory technicians assist physicians in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases by performing tests on tissue, blood and other body fluids.

Here’s a look at how Claudia took a leap of faith to go back to school – even with a four-year degree already in hand – to make a better life for herself: Continue reading

March 8, 2016by Linda Bau
Health Careers & Wellness

A cure for cancer? Moraine Park instructor pens thriller novel on topic

Moraine Park instructor, Bruce Forciea with book and skeleton

What if a cure for cancer was found by independent researchers? Would the public ever learn of the discovery, or would Big Pharma conceal the Cure to preserve massive profits? The debut novel of Bruce Forciea, anatomy and physiology instructor at Moraine Park Technical College, explores what would happen if such events occurred. Continue reading

January 23, 2016by Andrew Pantzlaff
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