Highline Community College

CALENDAR ITEM

 

FOR RELEASE:   IMMEDIATELY

DATE:                   February 12, 2009

CONTACT:          Diana Baker: (206) 878-3710, ext. 6026; dibaker@highline.edu

                                Joy Strohmaier: (206) 878-3710, ext. 6120, jstrohma@highline.edu

Lisa Skari: (206) 870-3705; lskari@highline.edu

 

 

Event:                Health Care Job Fair

Date:                 Wednesday, March 4

Time:               10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Price:                Free and open to the public

Location:              Highline Community College’s main campus, Highline Student Union

                        (Building 8), 2nd floor

Highline’s main campus is located midway between Seattle and Tacoma at South 240th Street and Pacific Highway South (Highway 99); address: 2400 S. 240th St., Des Moines, WA 98198.

Description:      Employers from the Puget Sound area will be recruiting for jobs in many health care related fields, including nursing, respiratory care, medical assisting, medical transcriptionist, phlebotomy, polysomnographic technology, optician-licensed dispensing and chemical dependency.

                              Employers scheduled to participate include Advanced Health Care, Cascade Regional Blood Services, Good Samaritan Hospital, Regency Pacific, Sea Mar Community Health Centers, Valley Medical Center and Virginia Mason Medical Center.

                                The job fair coincides with Highline’s Health Information Fair, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Highline Student Union, 1st floor. The information fair features student booths that explore health-related issues and booths that highlight Highline’s health care programs.

Sponsored by:    HCC’s Workforce Development Services

Website:              http://flightline.highline.edu/workforce

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Highline Community College was founded in 1961 as the first community college in King County. With approximately 10,000 students and 350,000 alumni, it is one of the state’s largest institutions of higher education. The college offers a wide range of academic transfer and professional-technical education programs, with day, evening and weekend classes. Alumni include former Seattle Mayor Norm Rice, entrepreneur Junki Yoshida and Washington state poet laureate Sam Green.