PCC’s Corporate College and Three Medical Imaging Programs Have Relocated to the
New Airside Center in Southwest Lakeland

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12/13/2007: Polk Community College’s Corporate College and Diagnostic Medical Sonography, Cardiovascular Technology and Radiography programs have moved to the Airside Center at 3515 Aviation Way in southwest Lakeland. The facility, located off of W. Pipkin Road on the south side of Lakeland Linder Airport, is easily accessed from the Polk Parkway (by taking Exit 4– Waring Road and heading south to W. Pipkin Road).

    PCC signed a long-term lease with the City of Lakeland to use 25,000-square-feet of space at the Airside Center for PCC's Corporate College, the three healthcare programs and general education classes.
 

    “We are excited to be in our new office and classroom facilities at the Airside Center. The extra space provided by this facility will enable us to take the PCC Corporate College to a new level,” said Rob Clancey, director of the PCC Corporate College. Airside is an intermediate home of the Corporate College, while plans are being developed for the Center for Advanced Global Technology that will be housed at Clear Springs in Bartow.

Several PCC Corporate College programs are making use of the 12,416-square-feet of classroom space at the Airside Center, including:

·        the Incumbent Worker Training Grant,

·        the Succeed Grant for Manufacturing,

·        the Manufacturing Skills Standard Council (MSSC) Assessment Center that utilizes the BANNER Manufacturing skills curriculum, and

·        the new Supply Chain Management Institute, which trains people for jobs in the warehousing/distribution/logistics industry.

When the Corporate College move was complete in November, three Allied Health programs packed up during December and moved to Airside Center ready to begin offering classes on Jan 7. All of these programs will train students for heavy demand, high paying jobs in healthcare.
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The programs, Diagnostic Medical Sonography, Cardiovascular Technology and Radiography, will form a new Medical Imaging Complex. When it opens in January, it will be the only educational imaging complex of one of its kind in central Florida. Each lab will be outfitted with state of the art equipment and they each will look and work like suites students will find in hospitals and medical clinics.

Radiography

PCC has been offering the Radiography Program since 1981. The graduates are employed in a variety of radiography related fields and earn excellent wages. At the Airside Center, the x-ray units will be energized allowing students to perform actual x-ray procedures. The lab includes a digital PACS (Picture Archiving Computer System) providing students state of the art experience.

Diagnostic Medical Sonography

The PCC Sonography lab will be state of the art with a total of six ultrasound machines for student use, including two laptop ultrasound machines. The lab will be outfitted with technology that enhances student instruction by projecting the live images onto a large screen, so all the students can observe what is being done.  

Cardiovascular Technology

The CVT lab will have several pieces of equipment, including a Philips V3000 with a large C- shaped arm that rotates around the table and allows students to take 3D images of coronary vessel and arteries. The lab will also have a Simbionix patient simulator machine. PCC is the first community college in the country to have one of these machines, which will allow students in real time to simulate heart catheterization. An x-ray dye is inserted into the arteries of a model and the machine will show if there is blockage.