{"id":23564,"date":"2023-01-26T13:51:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T21:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=23564"},"modified":"2023-01-26T13:52:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T21:52:00","slug":"camosun-college-to-get-new-island-health-ultrasound-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2023\/01\/26\/camosun-college-to-get-new-island-health-ultrasound-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun College to get new Island Health ultrasound clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Camosun College is getting a new ultrasound clinic on campus. The provincial government announced the outpatient clinic at the Alex & Jo Campbell Centre for Health and Wellness on Thursday, January 26. It will be called Campus Ultrasound and is the first clinic of its kind in Canada to support on-site learning.<\/p>\n

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Camosun College is getting an ultrasound clinic (photo by Camosun College A\/V Services).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The clinic is a partnership with Island Health and will give Diagnostic Medical Sonography students experiential education.<\/p>\n

The clinic comes from $1.2M of funding from the provincial Ministry of Health. It will have two general ultrasound rooms and two echocardiogram rooms; four students can be trained at once. In a press release, Island Health says it expects to expand diagnostic ultrasound services by approximately 5,000 general ultrasound exams and 3,000 echocardiogram exams annually at Campus Ultrasound.<\/p>\n

The clinic will begin receiving patients on Monday, February 6.<\/p>\n

More info to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Camosun College is getting a new ultrasound clinic on campus. The provincial government announced the outpatient clinic at the Alex & Jo Campbell Centre for Health and Wellness on Thursday, January 26. It will be called Campus Ultrasound and is the first clinic of its kind in Canada to support on-site learning. The clinic is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t