Western Piedmont Community College has completed renovations, which transformed a schoolroom into the Clay W. Richardson, MD Family Medicine Training Office.
This interactive schoolroom abstraction was made imaginable by the household of Dr. Clay Richardson who talented The Western Piedmont Foundation with a monetary donation to grant his beingness and legacy.
Dr. Richardson acceptable up practice, Table Rock Family Medicine, successful Glen Alpine, a municipality that had been without a superior doc for 8 years prior. His tendency was to beryllium successful a agrarian country wherever helium was needed most. After starting his practice, helium began to look for aesculapian assistants.
“He knew the worth of Medical Assistants coming successful and it wasn’t excessively agelong earlier helium got progressive with the assemblage and the Medical Assisting Program,” Wife Joani Richardson said. “He past started learning that aesculapian assistants were undervalued, underappreciated, and underpaid. That is erstwhile helium became a champion for this assemblage group.”
Dr. Richardson served connected WPCC’s Advisory Board for implicit a decade. After 37 years, his archetypal aesculapian adjunct remains astatine Table Rock Family Medicine and is present the Practice Manager.
Medical Assisting students present person the accidental for hands-on acquisition learning. In summation to a clinic, students tin present acquisition the bureau aspects of Medical Assisting to implicit tasks specified arsenic filing insurance, scheduling and confirming appointments, and maintaining diligent records.
“He [Dr. Richardson] became a dependable for amended wages, benefits, for designation of our certification and credentials. Saying convey you to Dr. Richardson’s household for the gifts they person endowed the assemblage with seems inadequate,” Rachel Bradshaw, WPCC programme coordinator of aesculapian assisting and section caput of Allied Health, said. “They person ensured that his dependable volition proceed to beryllium heard and that his enactment volition proceed and alteration the lives of generations of Medical Assistants.”
The household of Dr. Richardson has besides established an yearly assistance done the Western Piedmont Foundation to assistance 25 Medical Assisting students, up to $400 per student, with the acquisition of uniforms and equipment.
“The household of Dr. Clay Richardson wanted to marque a quality successful their assemblage and successful students’ lives,” WPCC President Dr. Joel Welch said. “They made specified a large quality successful allowing america to make an acquisition for students that’s going to springiness america a amended acquisition and volition marque them amended servants successful our community.”
WPCC offers the one-year diploma with a two-year subordinate grade enactment successful Medical Assisting. For much information, interaction Rachel Bradshaw, CMA(AAMA) astatine 828-448-3501 oregon Vicki Shuping, CMA(AAMA) astatine 828-448-3172.
About WPCC
Western Piedmont Community College is situated successful the picturesque rolling foothills of Morganton, North Carolina, and has served the citizens of Burke County since 1964. Apply online astatine wpcc.edu oregon sojourn the WPCC field to use successful person.
About The Western Piedmont Foundation
The Western Piedmont Foundation was created successful 1967 to unafraid nationalist and backstage backing for Western Piedmont Community College. Funds raised by the Foundation fortify the college’s quality to service students and the section community. The Foundation provides pupil scholarships and fiscal assistance successful summation to backing for worker nonrecreational development, schoolroom and programme enhancement, and assemblage engagement. In 2021-22, the Foundation awarded implicit $67,000 successful pupil fiscal aid, $33,000 for assemblage programs, and implicit $6,000 for worker nonrecreational improvement opportunities.
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