Articles by: Ellen Small-Davis
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NECC has loaned respiratory care equpment to local hospitals.
NECC will host a series of three webinars for healthprofessionals thanks to an Massachusetts Higher Education Innovation Fund Grant.
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NECC students will hold a Speechapalooza this year to raise money for COVID-19 Emergency Fund.
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Nearly one dozen NECC public health students are volunteering their time with the Acadmic Public Health Volunteer Corps – tracking and tracing COVID-19 patients in the Commonwealth.
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Rad tech professor Angela Bowers was deployed to Dobbins Air Reserve Base with the National Disaster Medical System.
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Former business major found his calling in respiratory therapy. Now he works with COVID-19 patients.