Patron Saints Foundation Supports PCC Nursing Students

Supporting nursing students is a priority for our friends at the Patron Saints Foundation, and their gift to PCC’s Nursing Skills Lab in 2021 has made a significant impact on students and the patients they serve. 

The $28,000 grant enabled the purchase of 2 human patient simulators, which will help nursing students increase their knowledge, clinical skills, and confidence when dealing with patients. 

Designed so that nursing instructors can monitor their students’ performance in various medical simulations, the patient simulators are equipped with programmable heart rates and rhythms, breathing rates, blood pressures, and normal and abnormal breath sounds and heart tones, all of which are critical for student nurses to become familiar with in order to make a successful diagnosis. 

The Patron Saints Foundation has a long history of providing grants to the PCC Foundation to invest in health care education and the future leaders and medical personnel of the San Gabriel Valley. In the past 30 years, the Patron Saints Foundation has provided 10 grants totaling $117,100 to the PCC Foundation. 

“Supporting student completion of nursing and health career education programs is an important cause. We are very proud of what we do here at PCC as we prepare students who are ready to serve the healthcare needs of our community and beyond. We are indeed grateful for the Patron Saints Foundation and their dedication to supporting healthcare in the community and for their continued generosity towards PCC.”
– Dr. Micah Young, Dean of Health Sciences