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Eastern Iowa Community Colleges opens three new centers

Students learning how to deliver a baby using a patient simulator in new nursing lab.
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Students learning how to deliver a baby using a patient simulator in new nursing lab.

Eastern Iowa Community Colleges opened three new buildings, including a new health sciences center in Bettendorf, this month.

One is the Career Advancement Center in Muscatine. It will hold programs in automotive technology, HVAC, criminal justice, and nursing.

At another center in DeWitt, students will learn about manufacturing technology, construction, agriculture, healthcare, and business.

The first, the Scott Health Sciences Center on Belmont Road in Bettendorf, opened with a ribbon cutting. It has nursing, dental, surgical tech, and medical assisting labs, some of which include "patient simulators."

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