Katz Family Healthcare Simulation Center
Iowa's First Fully Integrated Simulation Center
The Katz Family Healthcare Simulation Center is the first fully integrated, multidisciplinary healthcare simulation center in Iowa. We support future and current health care workers, from credit to non-credit students, as well as contracted training health care partners throughout the community.
This 12,000 square-foot facility features:
- Seven patient care areas
- Ten medical simulators
- State-of-the-art audio/visual technology platforms
- Air Ambulance landing pad
- On-Site Ambulance
Katz Family Healthcare Simulation Center
The state’s first fully integrated, multidisciplinary healthcare simulation center, the Katz Family Simulation Center, opened in 2009.
Emergency Department
The 12,000 square foot facility features six clinical learning areas: ICU Room, ER Room, Medical-Surgery Room, OB/Delivery Room, Pediatric Room, and Home Environment Room.
OB Room
Each learning area utilizes CAE Simulation Technology. This includes two male Apollo Simulators, two female Lucina birthing simulators, one Luna infant simulator, and one Aria pediatric simulator.
Med/Surgery Room
Debriefing/observation rooms are attached to each learning area, providing complete video, audio, and data monitoring and playback.
Home Environment
The Home Environment Room can be staged to demonstrate numerous home accidents for first responder practice. The Simulation Center has a fully operational Ambulance Bay and ambulance.
ICU Room
The Simulation Center allows operators to introduce new variables, testing participants’ responses to changing conditions. The Simulation Center allows participants the ability to encounter difficulty patient situations and provide appropriate interventions.
Peds Room
The Katz Family Simulation Center serves all students in Kirkwood’s 20 credit and non-credit nursing and Allied Health programs. It also is offered as a resource to practicing professionals for advanced continuing education coursework.
Peds Room
The Katz Family Simulation Center is offered as a resource to practicing professionals for advanced continuing education coursework. The Simulation Center also offers opportunities to all area industries in need of CPR, Mass Casualty and basic first aid.
The Katz Family Healthcare Simulation Center opened in the fall of 2009 on the Kirkwood Community College main campus. A 12,000 square foot facility on the west end of Linn Hall, the Healthcare Simulation Center serves students in the college's 20 credit and non-credit nursing and Allied Health programs, as well as area hospitals, EMS agencies, medical facilities, and individual health care providers.
Kirkwood Community College's vision is to invent, develop and deliver learning solutions for the 21st century. Its mission is to ensure access to quality education, training, and lifelong learning with clear educational pathways that provide opportunities and support for all students to succeed.
Within that framework, the Katz Family Healthcare Simulation Center is committed to providing quality, realistic health care simulation solutions for our nursing and Allied Health students and to health care providers throughout the community and the state.
The Katz Family Healthcare Simulation Center provides customized training delivered at the center or on-site at health care, EMS and education venues across the state.
For more information and pricing about bringing Kirkwood Healthcare Simulation programs to your institution, please contact:
Katie Lyman
For Providers
- Difficult Airway Lab
- Basic Childbirth Lab
- Advanced Childbirth Lab
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support
- Multidisciplinary Training Using Simulation
- The Mass Casualty Incident- In-Hospital
- The Mass Casualty Incident- Pre-Hospital
- Death and Dying
- Advanced Disaster Life Support
- Safety and Communication- The Crew Resource Model
For Educators
- Introduction to Simulation
- Running Your Simulator
- Integrating Simulation into Competency Verification
- The Art of Debriefing
- Simulation Kitchen- The Art of Moulage
- Simulation Kitchen- Basic Body Fluids and Organ Systems
- The Suspension of Disbelief- Creating a Realistic Environment
- New Equipment Orientation Using Simulation
- Process Mapping Using Simulation
- Standardized Patients and Therapeutic Communication
For Administrators
- Building a Simulation Lab
- Building a Simulation Center
- Grants and Funding Opportunities
- Simulation and Joint Commission Guidelines
- Seminal Event Re-creation and Root Cause Analysis
- Legal Issues in Simulation Training
Additional Information
Katie Lyman, Dean of Health Occupations & Healthcare Simulation
319-398-4947
katie.lyman@kirkwood.edu
Jackie Gillen, Manager, Simulation Center
319-398-7751
jacklyn.gillen@kirkwood.edu
Tiffany Regenwether, Simulation Specialist, AHA Instructor
319-398-7744
tiffany.regenwether@kirkwood.edu
Claire Garner-Hubert, Department Assistant
Megan Suedkamp, Department Coordinator
Michael Aguilar, Program Developer: AHA
Kristi Hanson, Program Developer: Nursing, Allied Health Continuing Education
Kimberly Klein, Program Developer: LTC/Vocational Health Continuing Education
Mike Robinson, Clinical Coordinator
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On September 17, 2012, the Katz family donations were honored at a ceremony for the simulation center, where the center assumed its new name: the Katz Family Healthcare Simulation Center.
Officials honored long-time donor/supporter Bert Katz and others in the Katz family by naming the facility the Katz Family Healthcare Simulation Center. More than 100 Kirkwood leaders, community partners, and staff attended the Sept. 13 ceremony recognizing the family for more than $1.7 million in donations over the past 13 years.
President Mick Starcevich saluted the donors for “their lasting and valuable gifts” to Kirkwood and other charities in Linn County.
Katz Family Generosity
“At Kirkwood, the Katz family has endowed scholarships that have helped our students by the hundreds for well over a decade," said Starcevich. "In 2001, a gift from the estate of Henry and Sara Katz endowed a substantial scholarship for nursing students."
"Bert’s new gift of $500,000 will endow scholarships for future healthcare professionals. A future scholarship from the estate of Suzanne Katz will endow a major performing arts scholarship. In all, the family’s giving to Kirkwood has totaled more than $1.7 million and created a remarkable legacy here,” Starcevich observed.
Mr. Katz concluded the ceremony with his own remarks. He applauded Kirkwood’s leadership over the years and reminisced on the college’s growth over time. He told a story of a business colleague driving him out “to a farm on the southwest side of Cedar Rapids” in the mid-1960s, and saying there would soon be a college building there.
“My brother Henry used to say, ‘You won’t get anything done without a good boss.’ I have to say Kirkwood has had some great bosses, from Norm back to those founding leaders in the Sixties, up to Mick today," he said.
"And I would think the Cohn family would be pretty proud of how this college has grown on the farm they used to own. We are pleased to put our support into Kirkwood and these worthy students,” Katz added.
Katz Family Healthcare Simulation Center
319-398-7660
2006 Linn Hall
Cedar Rapids, IA 52404