MHBC Foundation’s gift will help future nurses

EVERETT -- The Memorial Hospital of Bedford County Foundation Fund within the Community Foundation for the Alleghenies is helping future nurses learn to care for patients who are unable to access nutrition through eating.

The MHBC Fund donated $3,500 to the Bedford County Regional Education Foundation to purchase a Tube Feeding Tracheostomy Care Suction Training Model for use by students attending the Allegany College of Maryland Bedford County Campus.

The Tube Feeding Tracheostomy Care Suction Training Model is referred to as a "trach trainer" by instructors. ACM students will use the trach trainer as part of their clinical nursing program to practice trach care, nasogastric gastrostomy and percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube feeding, and cleaning.

"We are happy to support the ACM Bedford County Campus nursing program to help students gain important skills that will transfer to a hospital setting," said John Blackburn, III, who chairs the MHBC Foundation Fund.

"I believe that we are so lucky to have this high-quality educational opportunity right here in Bedford County," said Dina McGee, the Bedford County director of the Community Foundation for the Alleghenies. "We need to celebrate and support it in any way that we can."

For more information about making a gift to the Bedford County Regional Education Foundation, contact Leah Pepple at 814-652-9528, ext. 6223, or lpepple@allegany.edu.