Westchester Community College in Valhalla will expand its IT health care programs through $624,000 in new funding.
Obtained through the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), WCC will enhance programs to grant short-term certificates to implementation support specialists, technical and software support staff and trainers.
The community college, which serves some 12,000 full and part-time students, has joined the Health Information Technology consortium, a partnership of five community colleges in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic region.
The group will focus on educating health care IT professionals for entry into the workforce; funding stems from the federal Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (HITECH) Act.
WCC ranks 93rd nationally in the number of associate degrees awarded to Hispanic students; it ranks 10th in the number of associate degrees awarded in the family, consumer and human sciences academic sectors.
