“We are delighted for this partnership with Pikeville Medical Center,” says Â鶹Éç President, Frank Longaker. “We will get the honor of educating these students to further develop their professional careers with Pikeville Medical Center.”

Pikeville Medical Center is a 348-bed regional referral center and Kentucky’s only level II trauma center that offers over 400 services, including every major specialty and many subspecialties, and features the region’s most advanced medical technology. Pikeville Medical Center employs more than 3,000 people and has nearly 400 credentialed healthcare providers. Pikeville Medical Center’s mission is “to advance the health and well-being of our region through comprehensive care in a Christian environment” and maintains the core values of quality, faith, inclusion, teamwork, integrity, and stewardship.

“Pikeville Medical Center’s Project HEART (Healthcare Employment around Regional Training) is helping to create obtainable career pathways in health care for the people in the region,” said Donovan Blackburn, President & CEO. “Through continued partnerships and funding, Pikeville Medical Center has taken great strides in improving education and healthcare in Eastern Kentucky.”

We are excited to be working with Â鶹Éç and their Business Partnership Grant Program in which qualified Pikeville Medical Center employees may potentially receive financial assistance and tuition credit,” says James Glass, Vice President of External Technical Instruction. “This program can help our employees work toward achieving their academic and career goals.  We look forward to the opportunities this program will provide our employees and the potential impact it may have on the healthcare of our region.”

With our High Tech, High Touch™ approach to education, students can earn their diplomas 100% online from anywhere. There are no hidden fees, all materials, like at-home lab kits and books, are included in the tuition price. We know that our eLearning will provide an array of professional development to the Pikeville Medical Center employees—not only with our medical programs, but also our IT, business, and cybersecurity programs as well.

Â鶹Éç—be live, in class, from anywhere.

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The UbiSim Virtual Reality experience will only boost Â鶹Éç’s High Tech, High Touch™ initiative to provide students with an all-inclusive education. Students will receive lab equipment and an Oculus Quest 2 All-in-One VR Headset that they can utilize at the Pikeville campus. The virtual reality goggles with provide students with an immersive experience where they can . Along with this, there are no hidden fees with ANU—at $310 per credit hour with all equipment and textbooks needed within that price, and this includes bootcamped training for the NCLEXRN.

“At Â鶹Éç, virtual reality simulation is incorporated into the nursing curriculum,” says Dean of Nursing, Dr. Marie-Bernard Lazare. “Using the Oculus VR system along with an innovative virtual simulation platform, the students are immersed in a variety of clinical scenarios that take place in a less intimidating environment, which is more conducive to learning. The faculty and students are excited about using VR and look forward to what comes next.”

The UbiSim VR implementation to ANU’s nursing curriculum revolutionizes the way students can learn. The technology allows faculty to customize scenarios in hospital settings so that students learn as they would in actual clinical setting, and gain a much deeper understanding than what a textbook could provide. Students will learn everything they would need—such as interacting with patients and their families, taking vitals, and administering medicine, among many other experiences. The program also does not operate on point-and-click mechanisms, but real-life hand gestures to provide active learning. Every interaction that students perform in these VR scenarios provides them with the experience they need to make their nursing career a reality.

The future of nursing education is here, and Â鶹Éç is proud to offer students the opportunity to learn in this high-tech platform. ANU does online differently.  Students receive live face-to-face instruction from anywhere they can access the internet and in-person instruction in Pikeville for skills training. To learn more about ANU’s over 136-year history of educating men and women and implementing this history in our innovative eUniversity, go to an.edu/elearning.

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“We are thrilled about our partnership with Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc.,” says Â鶹Éç President Frank Longaker. “Not only will many of their employees have the chance to develop their professional careers, but we get the honor of helping these future students on their educational journeys.”

Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc. employs over six thousand, and has 14 hospitals across the state of Kentucky and in West Virginia, as well as multi-specialty physician practices and pharmacies, among others. They are accredited by DNV – GL Healthcare. Their mission is to “improve health and promote well-being of all people in Central Appalachia in partnership with their communities.”

“We are thrilled to join this partnership with Â鶹Éç to provide additional opportunities to our Team Members in the journey of furthering their education. Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc. is committed to offering our Team Members resources to help them be happy and successful; personally, professionally, and educationally,” says Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc. representative, Sandy Campbell. “We look forward to the opportunities that this partnership will bring to the ARH Team and are appreciative of the support that we have received from the Team at ANU.”

With our High Tech, High Touch™ approach to education, students can earn their diplomas 100% online from anywhere. There are no hidden fees, all materials, like at-home lab kits and books, are included in the tuition price. We know that our eLearning will provide an array of professional development to the Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc. employees—not only with our medical programs, but also our IT, business, and cybersecurity programs as well.

Â鶹Éç—be live, in class, from anywhere.

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was recently recognized for its support of the ANU Youngstown Campus’s pharmacy technician program

RXIS, a division of Hometown Pharmacy Solutions (HPS), was established in 2007. It provides pharmaceutical services to assisted living, personal care, group homes and skilled nursing facilities throughout Pennsylvania and Ohio. RXIS is a leader in pharmacy services, offering E-Prescribing and state of the art systems to improve workflow and med-pass times.—

Because of the types of services provided, and the need to employ experienced and educated pharmacy techs, RXIS became a partner with ANU.  This has proved to be a winning situation for both RXIS and our ANU students. In the last several years, RXIS has taken on six ANU externs and has hired three of them.

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Because of the support that RXIS has provided to ANU students and graduates, it was presented with the ANU Distinguished Community Employer Award.  The award was created to show our appreciation to organizations and business that support our philosophy of educating students and developing them into productive employees.

The campus would particularly like to thank Ron McDermott, HPS senior VP of pharmacy operations, and Doug Christy, RXIS director of pharmacy, for their continued support of ANU and our pharmacy technician students. The support of employers like RXIS is vital to the successful training of career college students as they seek to gain the skills they need to serve their community.

Photo-(left to right)  Rose Kratz, ANU campus director; Ron McDermott, HPS senior VP of pharmacy operations; Doug Christie, RXIS director of pharmacy; and Kevin Chakos, ANU Northeast Ohio Region pharmacy program director, are pictured during the Distinguished Community Employer Award presentation.

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Dr. Ginger Kubala and were recently presented with the ANU Distinguished Community Employer Award  in recognition of the many ways that they provide support to the ANU $$Cincinnati Campus medical programs.—

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Dr. Kubala serves as a member of the ANU Cincinnati Campus Advisory Board where she shares her experience and knowledge of the medical field. “Dr. Kubala offers insight and suggestions to help us keep up to date with current trends, such as computer programs that might be helpful for our medical programs,” stated Tanya Roberts, director of health science education. 

[img]The practice also frequently accepts externs from the medical assisting program, and it provides employment opportunities for ANU graduates. “When I need an extern site with a great physician who is willing to teach our students, I can count on Montgomery Family Practice,” Tonya added.

Photo A-Dr. Ginger Kubala is a member of the ANU $$Cincinnati Campus Advisory Board and she assists with training of ANU medical students during their externships at Montgomery Family Practice.

Photo B-Tanya Roberts (left), director of health science education at the ANU $$Cincinnati Campus, is pictured with ANU graduate Tamara Bray (right), who is working as a registered medical assistant (RMA) at Montgomery Family Practice.

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The $$Martinsville Campus recently presented with the Â鶹Éç’s Distinguished Community Employer Award. Director of health science education Gary Jenkins presented a plaque of appreciation to recognize the eye center’s continued support of externship programs and employment opportunities for ANU graduates.

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The mission of is to provide high quality eye health care and vision services to each patient in a caring and comfortable environment. The practice offers a full range of optometrist services, including adult and pediatric eye exams, glaucoma testing, and corrective glasses and contact lenses. In accepting the award, Dr. Gray Friedrichs commented, “This is a very good partnership between Â鶹Éç and our office that provides community relations and an excellent opportunity for hands-on training.”

The medical practice has proven to be a valuable partner to the $$Martinsville Campus by providing externships for students in the medical assisting program. The eye center also hired four $$Martinsville Campus graduates in 2014.

(Left to right) $$Martinsville Campus director of health science education Gary Jenkins presented the Distinguished Community Employer award to Dr. Gray Friedrichs, OD, and Justin Mills, clinical medical assistant and ANU graduate, of Friedrichs Family Eye Center.

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