About Us

The key to providing high-quality, accessible, equitable, and inclusive care is through diversifying our health care workforce. Providing health care for a divers community requires a workforce that understands and embraces multiple cultures and perspectives. Therefore, we are invested in creating a more diverse workforce population to better meet the needs of those seeking health care services.

Additional workforce priorities include:

• Building a sound educational and clinical foundation for graduates to obtain frontline health care careers
• Pursuing funding to promote diversity in the admission and graduation of students

• Assessing, identifying, and developing a plan to address community needs
• Encouraging community engagement and recognizing faculty, students, and staff for community engagement achievements
• Enhancing student development as engaged learners and citizens by fostering community-based opportunities
• Enhancing and promoting lifelong learning on campus and in our communities

• Fostering educational partnerships with academic institutions and agencies to support a sustainable plan for the growth of health care programs
• Recruiting, retaining, and supporting quality students and faculty who will become engaged citizens and leaders committed to fulfilling the COHC mission

Our foundation is based on practicing health care that is grounded in the biological, psychological, sociological, and spiritual sciences.

We believe in promoting, maintaining, and restoring the health of individuals and families - including a peaceful, dignified death.

We believe in providing safe, culturally sensitive, individualized care for diverse individuals and families in all stages of life.

We believe that professional values guide interactions.

We believe it is our duty to demonstrate professional behaviors through accountability, meeting the needs of our patients, and assuming responsibility for the care we provide.

We believe that health care professionals demonstrate their identity by upholding their commitment to the public and by adhering to an established ethical code.

The faculty and staff at RGCOHC will educate and prepare graduates to:

• contribute to the promotion of wellness
• demonstrate leadership by guiding and directing assistive personnel to provide safe, quality patient care
• function as advocates for individuals and families
• use clinical judgement to identify current and emerging patient problems
• provide care, including patient education, using established, evidence-based protocols and best practice to achieve positive clinical outcomes.

We firmly believe that students who graduate from this college ARE ready to practice in a complex and changing health care environment.