PHOTO: Ed and Gayle Goodman pose next to one of the medical manikins used at the Ed and Gayle Goodman Simulation Center at Baxter Regional. The hospital announced Thursday that it was naming the sim center, which opened on Oct. 1, after the Goodmans.
Baxter Regional Medical Center’s high-tech medical manikins now have a home at the Ed and Gayle Goodman Simulation Center. The hospital unveiled the center’s name Thursday afternoon at a donor celebration event attended by more than 30 donors, volunteers and hospital employees.Patient conditions like emergency care, cardiac functions, advanced airway training and childbirth complications can all be replicated at the sim center using Apollo, Ares or Lucy, the brand names of the CAE Healthcare manikins that serve as the lab’s patients.
The three BRMC manikins are “high fidelity” medical dummies, which means they are capable of reenacting a situation as close to real life as possible, says Shannon Nachtigal, Baxter Regional’s Chief Nursing Officer.
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The center, located on the third floor of the hospital, opened on Oct. 1 and offers four simulation rooms capable of replicating everything from surgery to emergency room trauma to labor and delivery. Baxter Regional employees have already logged more than 1,000 hours at the center, using it in its RN residency program, for mock code blues, professional development and COVID-19 training.
Sarah Brozynski, director of Baxter Regional’s Education Department, explains the idea behind a simulation center.
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The sim lab has full audio/visual recording capabilities, allowing participants and their supervisors the ability to replay the simulations and break down what happened.
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Nachtigal says that establishing a simulation center had been on her wish list, but hospital administrators could never find the space in the budget to make it a reality.
PHOTO: Baxter Regional employees demonstrate some of the functions of the hospital’s medical manikins Thursday afternoon. The manikins can replicate a wide variety of medical conditions and are used in the Ed and Gayle Goodman Simulation Center.
The Baxter Regional Hospital Foundation conducted a fundraising campaign to help create the sim lab. Ed and Gayle Goodman served as the center’s naming donors.
Barney Larry, Baxter Regional’s Vice President of Business Development and the Executive Director of the Hospital Foundation, called the Goodmans “the lead drivers” on the sim lab campaign.
“Once we got their gift, we knew we could get the others,” he said.
Rooms in the sim lab are also named Rick and Pam Fairlamb; Drs. Grant Mathews and Rebecca Martin; Jim and Jackie Neff; and Barbara Wright.
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