Healthcare

This comprehensive course equips students with the fundamental knowledge and skills essential for providing care to individuals in long-term care settings. Students will learn to deliver personal care, perform basic nursing tasks, assist in basic emergencies, recognize common health indicators, ensure a clean and safe setting, and implement infection control measures. Successful completion qualifies Nurse Aide Trainees to take the Credentia-administered Pennsylvania certification exams, leading to placement on the PA Nurse Aide Registry upon passing. The class is 120 hours, approximately 6 weeks long, 25 classes total.

Course Dates:  

Mandatory Nurse Aide Orientation:
Wednesday July 16 at 4 p.m., both sessions will be held at our Schnecksville campus.
Please plan to be there for approximately 2 hours.
Orientation is free of charge, but attendance is required prior to enrolling in any NA course.
Before course registration, all necessary paperwork must be completed and submitted.
To register for an orientation session: Complete the form or send an email to: workforce@lccc.edu.

Phlebotomists are people trained to draw blood from a patient for clinical or medical testing, transfusions, donations, or research. Phlebotomists collect blood by performing venipunctures or for collection of minute quantities of blood, capillary sticks.

Phlebotomists work in hospitals, medical and diagnostic laboratories, community health centers, blood donor centers, doctors’ offices, and nursing facilities.

A Pharmacy Technician who works under the direct supervision of a licensed pharmacist can supply medicines to patients whether on prescription or over the counter, assemble medicines for prescriptions, provide information to patients and other healthcare professionals, manage areas of medicines supply such as dispensaries, supervise other pharmacy staff, and produce medicines in hospitals and the pharmaceutical industry.

Pharmacy Technicians can work at retail pharmacies, closed-door pharmacies, hospitals, and nursing facilities.

Medical Office Administrators are responsible for front office duties, including answering phones, greeting patients, managing health records, diagnosis and procedure coding, maintaining records, scheduling appointments, ordering supplies, inventory, and insurance filing and billing.

Medical Office Administrator can work in physicians’ offices, medical clinics, long-term care facilities, hospitals, hospice, and insurance companies.

This hands-on workshop is designed to introduce Medical Office Staff to the fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence (AI), with a particular focus on large language models like ChatGPT. Participants will learn how to ethically and effectively leverage these powerful tools to streamline administrative tasks, enhance patient communication, improve documentation, and maintain compliance within a healthcare environment. The course emphasizes practical application, responsible AI use, and understanding the limitations of AI in sensitive medical contexts

Community Health Workers act as a liaison between communities and health care agencies. They serve members of the community by helping them to adopt healthy behaviors, such as promoting the health of pregnant women or children, improving nutrition, promoting immunization, or providing education around a specific health issue (i.e. diabetes or HIV/AIDS).

Community Health Workers can work in family services, outpatient care centers, general medical and surgical hospitals, and social advocacy organizations.

Orientation are mandatory and free. Orientations are remote via Zoom. A Zoom link will be emailed to all who register. Email workforce@lccc.edu to set up an orientation date, time and place. to set up an orientation.

Tentative schedule to start in July 2024. Dates will be determined at orientation.

Mental Health First Aid teaches you how to identify, understand and respond to signs of mental health and substance use challenges among adults or youth. For more information please email workforce@lccc.edu.