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Hospital CEO, Wick Baker went over various educational opportunities available to students

January 31, 2012

Sports Editor Calvin Adkins The Daily Southerner Tue Jan 31, 2012, 05:54 PM EST

TARBORO — Edgecombe County Public Schools is working together with Vidant Edgecombe Hospital, previously known as University Health Systems – Heritage Hospital, to establish a partnership to foster growth in their employees, community and patrons.

Vidant Edgecombe Hospital hosted the ECPS District Leadership Team meeting Wednesday providing breakfast, lunch and a meeting place for the entire team. The DLT is made up of district principals, directors, assistant superintendents and the superintendent and meets once a month in different schools. This was the first meeting not held at the central office or one of the fifteen schools in the district.

Counselors from each school were also invited and attended a special session during the DLT meeting where hospital CEO, Wick Baker and Randy Collier, health careers consultant with Vidant Health, went over various educational opportunities available to students through the hospital and its programs. Vidant Edgecombe Hospital and ECPS chose to include counselors in the meeting so they could be provided with information about all the different kinds of careers in the medical field, not just the well-known occupations such as nurses, doctors and surgeons, so that students can set attainable career goals. Through this session, Collier also reviewed internships and other learning possibilities for ECPS students.

ECPS and Edgecombe Hospital will also be partnering for three different kinds of professional development. At the January Board of Education meeting, the Board approved a plan for both the hospital administrators and the Board members to participate in Facilitative Leadership, Crucial Conversations and Influencer training together.

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