MedCure Surgical Training Center Breaks Ground in North Gresham Business Area

Medcure breaks ground, Sep 2011

The City of Gresham is finalizing building permits for the creation of a Surgical Training Center at the northeast corner of 181st Avenue and Sandy Boulevard.

State-of-the-art facility
Ground breaking for the new facility happened September 7th. The new Surgical Training Center will be a six-station, state of the art bio-skill laboratory. Surgeons will utilize the center to develop and practice the latest in minimally invasive surgical procedures on persons who have donated their body after death, to support advancements in medical science. This kind of surgical training is critical in developing competency in procedures before performing these operations on living persons.

“The location is ideal for us because of the proximity to the Portland International Airport and area hotels,” says Valere Beck, Marketing Director for MedCure. “This allows surgeons to access the center with ease.”

The opening date is expected to be in February 2012.

About MedCure
MedCure was established in 2005 in Portland, Oregon and has become a leading national non-transplant whole body donation program. MedCure has already established two Surgical Training Centers in two other locations: Cumberland, Rhode Island and Henderson, Nevada. MedCure serves as a bridge between whole body donors and the medical educators and researchers that rely on donations to develop new and more effective treatment and therapies.

Donors are crucial to the medical science community because there is no adequate replacement for the human body when it comes to teaching and research.

The Surgical Training Center in Gresham will provide employment opportunities for persons with a bachelor’s degree or 3-5 years previous related work experience in the medical or related field. Employment opportunities are available in Donor Coordination Services, Community Outreach, Research Relations, and Lab Technology. As employment opportunities become available, they will be posted on the website: www.medcure.org/about-medcure/careers-at-medcure/.