<p><strong>Levelland, TX </strong><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"> United Supermarkets is helping South Plains College graduate more registered nurses and licensed vocational nurses with a $150,000 contribution to the college’s new Center for Nursing and Allied Health Education, according to a press release. A grand opening for the new facility is scheduled for Aug. 21, 2012.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"> The donation will be used to supply the 27-room nursing skills lab which functions as a central component to the 36,000 square foot facility for the college’s nursing programs. The lab will be furnished much like a hospital suite of patient rooms, outfitted with electric patient beds, low fidelity Laerdal patient mannequins, wound treatment accessories for the mannequins, overbed and bedside tables, intravenous solution stands, and single patient headwall training units for mock oxygen, suction and medical gas applications.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"> The new facility at South Plains College will house the college’s associate degree nursing, vocational nursing and physical therapist assistant programs. It will enable the two nursing programs to double the number of students admitted into the programs.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"> Robert Taylor, CEO of United Supermarkets, LLC, states, “We are extremely delighted to be a partner with South Plains College in its new Center for Nursing and Allied Health Education." Mr. Taylor continues, “This facility will help train more than 125 students each year who will be providing healthcare services for communities throughout our area, and we are proud to be able to play a small part in making this happen."</p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p>www.unitedtexas.com</p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">
