Healthcare Blog | The Allen School

Attennnnnnnnnn-shun!

Posted: March 1, 2008 by Allen School

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

Blue, White, and Red as Allen School Students Open Their Hearts–and Their Veins–to Serve Their Community

Posted: January 26, 2008 by Allen School

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

Putting One’s Faith in Education

Posted: January 1, 2008 by Allen School

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

Orchestrating Allen School’s 46th Annual Graduation

Posted: January 1, 2008 by Allen School

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

Manhattan Allergist Takes a Deep Breath Using Speed Staffing System™ to Hire Medical Assistants

Posted: January 1, 2008 by Allen School

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

Three Grads Hired at Starting Salaries of $33,000-$37,000 a Year

Posted: January 1, 2008 by Allen School

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

Walking with Whoopie!

Posted: January 1, 2008 by Allen School

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

The Day the Marines Landed at the Allen School

Posted: January 1, 2008 by Allen School

Two “good men” from the Sixth Communications Battalion Barracks in Brooklyn came to the Brooklyn campus of the Allen School on December 11, 2007, to pick up a “tank full” of toys donated by staff and students to the Marines’ Toys For Tots program. Sergeant Richard Lahey and Corporal Jesse Guilbe were in full dress […] Read More