Moultrie Tech's New Allied Health Building Gets Green Light from Governor
With the signing of House Bill 119 into law on May 13, Governor Sonny Perdue has helped secure a two-story, 41,610 square foot home for Allied Health program students at Moultrie Technical College’s Veterans Parkway Campus in Moultrie.
Gov. Perdue proposed over $165 million in bonds for classroom construction projects for the Technical College System of Georgia as a part of the state’s FY 2010 budget year which begins on July 1. The construction bond package is part of the $1.2 billion in projects that the Governor proposed earlier this year.
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 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.
“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.”
According to MTC Vice President of Operations David Evans, “We plan to visit as many health care facilities and schools as possible to get ideas of the latest innovations in the medical field. We want people to know upon entering this facility that they have walked into a world-class, modern health care facility. Our goal is to replicate the hospital setting as closely as possible.”
Programs to be included in the new facility are 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.
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 construction project list for FY 2010.
