Something Big Is Coming to Dearborn
If you’ve driven down Michigan Avenue in Dearborn lately, you’ve probably seen it. The big blue building. The blue shutters, the blue front door, the sign that’s been catching sunlight out there for years: Phlebotomy Career Training.
Maybe you’ve pulled into the lot. Maybe you’ve walked through those doors and sat in one of our classrooms, learning how to draw blood without making your patient cry. Maybe you’re one of the thousands of students who walked in uncertain and walked out certified, ready to clock in on day one.
For seventeen years, that’s what we’ve done. Quietly. Consistently. One graduating class at a time.
And now? We’re about to become something more.
I’m not ready to tell you what, exactly. Not yet. But I’ll tell you this much. We’ve spent thousands of hours (and I do mean thousands) working alongside educators across the United States and the national organizations that certify them, rebuilding our curriculum from the ground up. Every module. Every quiz question. Every hands-on lab. Every sentence, honestly. We looked at what was working. We looked at what wasn’t. And we asked ourselves one very simple question.
What would we want, if we were the student?
Here’s what we landed on.
Courses that are actually fun to take, because healthcare education doesn’t have to feel like punishment. A learning management system with the same caliber that major colleges and universities across the country rely on, so when you sit down to study, you’re working inside a platform built for serious learning. Instructors who’ve been in the field with a patient’s arm in one hand and a butterfly needle in the other, not just in a textbook. Hands-on labs using the actual equipment you’ll touch on your first day in a clinic, a hospital, a blood drive, or a lab. And a certification at the end you can hand to an employer and watch their eyebrows go up in the good way.
Same big blue building. Same 10,000 square feet of labs, classrooms, whiteboards, centrifuges, and hallways that have seen seventeen years of nervous first-day students walk out the door as working professionals. Same team, too, because you don’t mess with what’s already good. You make it better.
But a brand-new identity. A brand-new look. A brand-new feel. And a new name I’m not quite ready to say out loud yet.
Almost.
Here’s where I’ll leave it.
If you’ve been thinking about a career in healthcare, any corner of it, phlebotomy, medical assisting, billing and coding, pharmacy tech, IV therapy, any of it, keep an eye on us over the next few weeks. Follow the page. Share this post with the friend who’s been telling you for two years they want to get into healthcare but don’t know where to start. Tell them the big blue building on Michigan Avenue has been there the whole time, and it’s about to look, feel, and teach like nothing you’ve seen before.
Detroit built the car. Dearborn is about to help build the next generation of healthcare professionals.
Stay tuned. Something’s coming.
Learn more: phlebotomycareertraining.com
Nancy L. Kimmel obtained her PhD in Environmental Engineering in 2002, then went on to teach Physics and Mechanical Engineering at Lawrence Technological University, Henry Ford College and Oakland University. She obtained her Associate in Nursing from Henry Ford College and then went on to earn her Master Degree as a Family Nurse Practitioner and became Board Certified working as a licensed FNP in the State of Michigan. She then went on to Medical School where she is now in her 3rd year, and is also in the process of obtaining her Doctorate in Nursing Practice through Chamberlin University. She has authored the NET Study Guide, as well a several books on subjects of Math, ECG/EKG and Phlebotomy. She holds a patent on an Air Filter through the U.S. Patent Office.
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