Penn College at Wellsboro Articles

Pennsylvania College of Technology's North Campus is offering classes for a medical billing and coding specialist certificate. The part-time certificate curriculum is approved by the National Healthcareer Association, which certifies the competency of newly trained professionals in allied health.

Pennsylvania College of Technology is offering two medical assistant programs beginning in mid-September. The noncredit course will be offered at the main campus in Williamsport and at the North Campus, three miles east of Wellsboro. Employment of medical assistants is expected to grow faster than the average for all occupations as the health-services industry expands.

The practical nursing program at Pennsylvania College of Technology's North Campus near Wellsboro is scheduling pre-admission testing for the next class, which begins in January. Pre-admission testing must be completed before the application process begins. All applications must be submitted by Oct. 1.

An information session for the next medical (office) assistant class to be offered at Pennsylvania College of Technology's North Campus will be held July 26. The information session will begin at 9 a.m. at the North Campus, located three miles east of Wellsboro. The next medical assistant class is scheduled to begin in mid-September.

Graduation ceremonies were held May 20 for those completing the medical (office) assistant program at Pennsylvania College of Technology's North Campus near Wellsboro. Ten individuals completed the nine-month training program, preparing them for employment in medical offices, labs, clinics and human-service agencies.

Julie A. Stager, a certified billing and coding specialist and instructor at Pennsylvania College of Technology's North Campus near Wellsboro, recently was chosen to take part in the National Healthcareer Association test-item writing workshop, held March 7-8 in Kansas City, Mo.

For small-business owners who want to manage their financial accounts with greater confidence, entrepreneurs with energy and ideas but no accounting experience, as well as those who have basic knowledge of computer-accounting packages but want to learn more, help is available through a noncredit course offered at Pennsylvania College of Technology's North Campus near Wellsboro.

Pennsylvania College of Technology's North Campus, located just east of Wellsboro, will host an open house on Monday, April 18, for those interested in nursing as a career. The event, to be offered from 5 to 7 p.m., will feature information sessions about the application process, tuition and financial aid.

Two by-appointment-only opportunities for free tax assistance have been scheduled at Pennsylvania College of Technology's North Campus near Wellsboro. The Internal Revenue Service's Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program, in which Penn College students help prepare hundreds of income-tax returns each season, will be available from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 25, and from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Twenty-one students recently graduated from the practical nursing program at Pennsylvania College of Technology's North Campus, with a ceremony held Dec. 16. The students chose N. Kim Johnson, a flight nurse for Geisinger Medical Center and a substitute clinical instructor in the program, as the distinguished speaker for the ceremony. Larry L.