FirstHealth Paramedic Academy Honors Eight Graduates in Unique Ceremony
| Date Posted: 8/20/2020
Eight graduates of FirstHealth’s second paramedic academy were honored during a socially distanced ceremony on July 31, 2020. Pictured (left to right) are graduates Corey Barr, Paramedic; Boston Kennedy, Paramedic; Jordan Taylor, Paramedic; Jeana Harris, Paramedic; Bailee Brumfield, Paramedic; Jordan Sharpe, Paramedic; Jennifer Turpin, Paramedic; Misty Wood, Paramedic.
The paramedic academy, which is offered through Fayetteville Technical Community College, lasts 41 weeks and includes more than 1,200 hours of classes, labs and clinical work. Labs were held at the Spring Lake campus, and field and hospital clinical rotations were completed at multiple FirstHealth locations.