Allen School Healthcare Training Blog

Transfused at birth in 1983 with HIV-contaminated blood, Michael, the newborn preemie, would have his life cut short at the age of fifteen by actions taken within hours of being born. The transfusions were provided to the infant without parental authorization for a condition called Necrotizing Enterocolitis, a gastrointestinal disease that mostly affects premature infants […] Read More

Allen School Student Body Explores Human Bodies at Seaport “Bodies Revealed” Exhibition “Astonished” is, perhaps, the ideal word to describe the reaction of Allen School Brooklyn Medical Assistant students as they entered the “Bodies Revealed” exhibition at the South Street Seaport, in lower Manhattan prompting one student to remark, “I know they are dead, but […] Read More

Batman and Robin. Romeo and Juliet. Vicki and Erika. Huh? Vicki and whoooooo? You mean you don’t know? The famous Allen School mother and daughter pair, Vicki and Erika Speller of Queens, who both, within a single week, had the identical idea to become a Medical Assistant and, unbeknownst to each other, applied at Allen […] Read More

Meet Former Marine Corps Drill Sergeant, Eddy Whitten, Director of Admissions, Queens Campus, Sir! Drill instructor duty is considered one of the most honored and valuable positions a Marine can hold. A veteran of twenty years in the Marine Corps, rank E-7 Gunnery Sergeant, selected for E-8 First Sergeant, Eddy Whitten was stationed in North […] Read More

Giant blood drive at Borough Hall draws television cameras What do you get when over 100 Medical Assistant and Certified Nursing Assistant students participate in a massive blood drive? You get 63 pints of blood! And, as student Medical Assistant Sherman McMullen knowledgeably told the reporter from Brooklyn’s News12 television cable network, on Wednesday, October […] Read More

An instructor with a vision for his students In 1948, a Carmelite nun, Teresita Castillo, in a convent in Batanga Province, fifty miles from Manila in the Philippines, reported seeing a vision, an apparition of the Virgin Mary, a reporting that came to be known throughout the world as the Miracle of Roses. The archbishop […] Read More

A virtuoso performance by staff and students Many high level representatives of the area’s leading medical facilities including Beth Israel Hospital, St. Luke’s Hospital, Roosevelt Hospital, Long Island College Hospital and NY Eye & Ear Infirmary were there for the “serenade of graduation” on June 15, 2007. The Deans of Philips Beth Israel School of […] Read More

Allen School’s one-of-a-kind online staffing solution makes a big difference for Dr. Ast With 72% of the population in the United States using the Internet as a resource, it is little surprise that Dr. Frederick Ast, Manhattan allergist/rheumatologist/internist, discovered the Allen School’s Speed Staffing System™ online. What is a surprise, however, is how many Allen […] Read More

With union hospital membership from Day One! The Speed Staffing System™, Allen School’s free-to-all-users, online staffing solution, launched an early start to the holiday season providing a great reason for Certified Nursing Assistant/Nurse Technician candidates Tracey Spencer (Brooklyn), Alscott Brown (Queens) and Monica Lopez (Queens) to give additional thanks on Thanksgiving. Better than a stack […] Read More

Allen School celebrity charity walkers join Whoopie Goldberg to fight AIDS There were television cameras and reporters everywhere at the start of the annual NY Aids Walk, a 10K (6.21 miles) event on Sunday, May 20, 2007. Under a giant arch of orange, blue and yellow balloons at 59th Street and Fifth Avenue in New […] Read More