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Phlebotomy Classes Offered to Entry-Level Mission Employees

Mission employee Turkisha Mallory holds a practice arm while Stacey Walker sticks it for a phlebotomy class A-B Tech offers for entry-level Mission Hospital employees.

A-B Tech’s partnership with Mission Hospital to offer phlebotomy classes for entry-level employees of the hospital completed its third cohort in December.

“It was something we started with human resources and A-B Tech to help with retention of current employees,” said Pat Allen, Mission Lab Educator. “We wanted to offer entry-level employees the means to get the education to move up in the hospital.”

Employees of Mission Hospital apply for the class, and 16 are accepted into each cohort. Students come to classes taught by Melissa Hyatt, Medical Laboratory Technology chair, in the evenings at A-B Tech, where they receive 40 hours of classroom instruction. “Once they successfully complete written exams and their performance competency, Mission takes over and carries out the clinical training,” Hyatt said.

After clinical training, the students sit for the American Society of Phlebotomy Technicians certification exams. The hospital system pays for the exam, which is taken in the A-B Tech classroom. According to Allen, an average of 10 to 11 students in each cohort finish and become certified. “We’ve got really good success with people that finish. We had two completers hired into the lab as phlebotomists,” she said.

“Our goal is to have two classes a year,” Hyatt said. “There have been as many as 200 names on the list waiting for the class, which is specifically for entry-level employees. It’s part of the Jobs to Career Initiative at Mission. On the latest employee satisfaction survey at the hospital, this program was one of the highest rated. Even those not taking the class see it as a good thing.”

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