CACC Grant Enhances Healthcare Programs

Coastal Alabama Community College (CACC) has announced receipt of a grant exceeding $162,000 to fund enhanced resources for nursing students, emergency responders and other healthcare personnel. From the Schmieding Foundation, an Arkansas-based nonprofit, the grant has been used to purchase two new anatomage tables, which offer digitized human cadavers and advanced medical learning tools for CACC’s Bay Minette and Fairhope campuses. The grant is also funding additional nursing lab equipment, such as Stop the Bleed supplies, which help in critical situations when someone is severely injured and needs immediate care. Those trained through this program often provide lifesaving care in the most serious situations, such as the CACC graduate who helped save the life of a 15-year-old girl who was mauled by a shark and hemorrhaging in Gulf Coast waters last year.