Moultrie Tech Slated for $9.5 Million Allied Health Building
Allied Health program students at Moultrie Technical College will soon have a new place to call home – a two-story, 41,610 square foot home on the College’s Veterans Parkway Campus in Moultrie.
As part of his Fiscal Year 2010 Budget recommendation, Governor Sonny Perdue has proposed $573 million in bonds for classroom construction projects for the Technical College System of Georgia and other state facilities. The construction bond package is part of the $1.2 billion in projects that the Governor proposed.
“This year’s bond package, totaling over $1.2 billion in new investment, will put Georgians to work and build critical infrastructure,” said Perdue during his State of the State Address in mid-January.
With an estimated move-in date of early 2012, Moultrie Tech will have nearly $9.5 million to spend for design and construction of the building that has been on the drawing board for over a decade as one of MTC’s future building projects.
“It has been our number one request since I have been here,” said MTC President Tina Anderson, who took the helm of the College in 2003.
The proposed building will house all the Allied Health programs that are currently offered on the College’s 44-year-old campus on Industrial Drive in Moultrie.
Those programs include Emergency Medical Technology, Medical Assisting, Neuromuscular Therapy, Patient Care Assisting, Practical Nursing and Radiologic Technology. The Cosmetic Esthetician program and the Human Growth and Development classroom will move into the new building as well. There will be additional space available to add one more Allied Health program in the future.
Students, faculty and staff will benefit from simulated medical examination rooms, computer laboratories, more storage and office space, and larger classroom and hands-on medical laboratories.
“It is part of our master plan to bring all of our programs over to the new Veterans Parkway Campus,” said Anderson. “We have retrofitted a building from 1964. Now we can design a building that meets our current and future needs.”
“In terms of the management of the College, it makes sense to all be together on one campus in Moultrie. Veterans Parkway is half a campus…has always been.”
MTC Allied Health Programs Coordinator Debbie Craft added, “Our students will also have better access to library resources and student services which will cut down on their travel between campuses.”
The building will serve about 240 students per day and will increase the MTC Allied Health programs’ instructional capacity by 100 percent in Moultrie.
MTC received letters of support from Colquitt Regional Medical Center, Tift Regional Medical Center, Moultrie-Colquitt County Development Authority Chairman Jim Ward and Colquitt County Schools Superintendent Leonard McCoy in its quest to land on the Governor’s proposed construction list.
Currently number six on the bond package recommendation, Moultrie Tech will learn if its dream will become reality at the end of March or first part of April when the legislative session comes to a close. If the project is green-lighted, the process of retaining an architect and builder will follow immediately.
