DEVILS LAKE, N.D. — New allied health programs at Lake Region State College show a growth in collaboration between higher education and health care, and both LRSC and Altru Health System are excited about it.

Cassie Olson, Altru's manager of education and patient experience, said it's an endeavor Altru hopes to pursue further, with other high-demand, high-need areas.

“These allied health roles don’t have a lot of exposure,” she said. “There are so many other roles that you can do, and it takes all of those roles, really, to care for patients.”

An allied health program starting in the fall semester at LRSC is a surgical technology certificate program. Surgical technologists work in the operating room by gathering equipment and supplies before surgery, assisting the surgeon through surger

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