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Surgical Technology collaborates with Confluence Health
YVC’s Surgical Technology program recently collaborated with Confluence Health’s Hospital and Clinics in Wenatchee, Wash., to offer training to hospital employees. After realizing the need to upskill its workers, Confluence Health contacted Program Coordinator Libby McRae to create a partnership to provide the training.
“We have numerous graduates of the YVC surgical technologist program working in our surgery unit,” stated Confluence Health’s Perioperative Supervisor J. Douglas Landers.
- J. Douglas Landers, Confluence Health
Combining convenient online instruction, laboratory simulations and supervised clinical practice, YVC’s degree program prepares students for careers as surgical technologists.
“The very concept of our program is to provide healthcare professionals that the community needs,” stated McRae. “A collaboration such as the one we have with Confluence Health is responsive to their community needs and provides them with surgical team members that will serve patients in their own community.”
YVC’s surgical technology program is 96 credits in length. A program application is required, with up to 16 students accepted each fall quarter by use of a competitive point system. Upon successful completion of the program, graduates receive an Associate of Applied Science degree in surgical technology.
Surgical technology students practice their skills in a mock operating room at YVC's West Campus.
