Heritage College & Heritage Institute

Heritage College was established in Denver, Colorado

Denver, Colorado

The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...

in 1986. The college trains adults for careers in healthcare related fields. Programs available include: X-Ray Medical Technician® - Medical Assistant, Dental Assistant, Surgical Technologist, Massage Therapist, Personal Finess Trainer, Cosmetologist, Esthetician, and Pharmacy Technician.

Heritage College and Heritage Institute are accredited by the Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools

Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools

The Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools is a recognized higher education accreditation organization in the United States specializing in the institutional accreditation of private, postsecondary institutions that offer allied health education programs, and the programmatic accreditation...

(ABHES).

Campuses

Weston Educational, Inc operates Heritage College Campuses in Denver, Colorado; Kansas City, Missouri; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Columbus, Ohio; Witchita, Kansas; and Little Rock, Arkansas. As well as Heritage Institute Locations (Non College Campus Format) in Fort Myers, Florida; Jacksonville, Florida; and Manassas, Virginia.

Degree programs

Depending on State and Regional Requirements; The Colleges and Institutes offer Certificate, AOS, and OAS degrees in a variety of Health Science programs. The college does train students to perform limited scope X-rays which are state regulated and can be done in doctors offices and clinics and does not require the ARRT ceritfication.

Distance Education

Heritage offers a massage therapy degree at its Denver campus through online distance education via its proprietary Structured Learning® system. Students accomplish most of the book and class work for their degree through the internet. Discussions, interactions, lectures, and assignments can all be reviewed online. Massage Therapy is still a hands-on discipline, however, and students are required to come to class one day per week for hands-on practice and training.

Heritage also offers a distance ed (Structured Learning®) program called Hospital and Health Services Management®, which trains students in the administration aspects of health care businesses.

External links

Radiology, Rad Tech, Radiography Note:
The Heritage X-Ray Medical Technician® - Medical Assistant program offers training in limited-scope x-ray, in addition to a traditional medical assistant curriculum. Limited-scope x-ray operators are not radiologists, radiographers, radiography technicians, rad techs, or radiology techncians, but they can do many of the routine x-ray tasks that are common in most medical offices.

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