Health Science Institute Virtual Hospital

Mission

To facilitate the acquisition of skills and knowledge for efficient, safe, evidence based patient care through simulated healthcare experiences, and promote the need for life-long learning.

The Facility

MCC’s Virtual Hospital is a 10,000 sq. ft., accredited, healthcare simulation center that provides an unmatched learning environment for healthcare providers and students. The Virtual Hospital is a realistic healthcare facility that hosts a variety of events and collaborates with businesses and organizations.

The Virtual Hospital space includes:

Six simulation rooms:

• The simulation rooms closely mimic hospital departments providing a clinical environment for students and professionals to safely practice their skills.

• Each of the 6 simulation rooms are fully equipped and can be staged to resemble: Acute care, Emergency Departments, Pediatrics, Labor and Delivery, Home Living Environments and much more.
• Educational Electronic Health Record with individual patient tablets and scanners.
• In addition to a safe and realistic learning environment, the 6 simulation rooms offer high quality audio/visual recording capabilities with CAE’s Learning Space Intuity system. Each of the patient rooms have 2 cameras, one wall-mounted and one ceiling-mounted, for optimal recording with zoom capabilities to capture all the details within the learning environment.
• Click here for more information about Learning Space Intuity.

Private debriefing rooms:

Adjacent to each of the 6 simulation rooms are private debriefing rooms for optimal learning opportunities. Each debrief room has a large screen for live-streaming during the simulation and instant playback during debriefing sessions. Debriefing can also be recorded for later review.

Control Rooms:

Behind the 2-way glass mirror in each simulation room is a control room. This space allows our staff to be able to discretely operate the mannequin in the simulation room and not be seen by students, creating a realistic experience for students.

 The Virtual Hospital Classroom:

The Virtual Hospital has a classroom space available for use in addition to the simulation and debriefing rooms. This versatile space can accommodate up to 24 comfortably. It is also equipped with audio/visual capabilities for meetings and presentations. (Space needed for larger groups is also available, located within the Health Science Institute campus).

Our Human Patient Simulators:

The Virtual Hospital Simulation Center is home to 16 incredibly life-like, High-Fidelity, Human Patient Simulators that mimic various patient scenarios giving us the ability to provide a wide variety of simulation experiences in a safe, controlled, clinical learning environment.  The Virtual Hospital’s family of simulators include the following:

Gaumard Scientific:

• • VICTORIA® S2200 – Maternal and Neonatal Birthing Simulator
    • Can also be used as a non-pregnant female simulator
  • NOELLE® S554.100 – Tetherless Maternal and Neonatal Birthing Simulator
  • Susie® S2000 – The First Advanced Female Patient Simulator
  • HAL® S3201 – Advanced Multipurpose Patient Simulator
  • HAL® S3005 – Five Year Old Pediatric Simulator
  • Two Newborn HAL® S3010 – A Neonate at 40 weeks Gestational Age

CAE Healthcare:

• • iStan® – Advanced Wireless Patient Simulator
  • METIman Nursing® – Advanced Wireless Patient Simulator
  • METIman PreHospital® – Advanced Wireless Patient Simulator
  • Two HPS® – Human Patient Simulator
  • Two ESC® – Emergency Care Simulator
  • PediaSIM® – 6 year old Child Human Patient Simulator
  • BabySIM® – Infant Human Patient Simulator

Scheduling the Virtual Hospital Facility

1. Scheduling Guidelines (PDF)
2. Scheduling process for MCC Penn Valley Nursing and Allied Health Programs
3. Scheduling process for External Schools
4. Scheduling Options for the Virtual Hospital:
   • Reservation Request
   • Cancellation Request (include your session dates and times in your message)

Department Contacts

• Christy Gallaher, Virtual Hospital Program Specialist
  816.604.4486
• Todd Geringer,Virtual Hospital Simulation Faculty
  816.604.4518
• Liz Santander, Virtual Hospital Coordinator
  816.604.4286

To request more information about educational opportunities for your students or employees please contact the MCC-Penn Valley Virtual Hospital staff at Virtual.Hospital@mcckc.edu.