{"id":4027,"date":"2012-11-27T22:49:33","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T03:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/?p=4027"},"modified":"2012-11-27T22:49:33","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T03:49:33","slug":"grand-rapids-moves-to-a-new-location-in-kentwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/grand-rapids-moves-to-a-new-location-in-kentwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Rapids moves to a new location in Kentwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Ross Medical Education Center celebrates new Grand Rapids area location with diabetes awareness events and ribbon-cutting.<\/h2>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4029\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4029\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Our_Grand_Rapids_campus_moved_to_a_new_location_last_week_.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4029\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Our_Grand_Rapids_campus_moved_to_a_new_location_last_week_-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ross Grand Rapids moved locations\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4029\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 100 red balloons soared into the chilly November sky, signaling the opening of another Ross Medical Education Center.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ross Medical Education Center celebrated the opening of its new Grand Rapids-area location on Monday, November 26, with an array of informative and fun, health-oriented activities open to the community, Ross students and staff, and their family members. The new Ross campus is located at 4528 Breton S.E., across from Horrocks Market.<\/p>\n<h3>Events Spotlight Diabetes Awareness and Prevention<\/h3>\n<p>The grand opening celebration started at 12:30 p.m. with speaker Dr. Jean Norris, educator and author of \u201cNo Sugar Added \u2013 Straight Talk From Those Living with Diabetes.\u201d Norris shared her personal insights into living with diabetes for the past 25 years, her positive philosophy and her commitment to supporting diabetes awareness programs and research.<br \/>\nAfter a 1 p.m. ribbon cutting ceremony, with members of the Kentwood Chamber of Commerce, Ross students and guests participated in a diabetes awareness balloon launch, followed by a onemile \u201cWalk It Off\u201d diabetes awareness walk ending at the campus.<br \/>\n\u201cRoss has been a part of the Grand Rapids area for more than 20 years,\u201d said Campus Director Ryan Middleton. \u201cAs we open our new campus doors to the public, we\u2019re thrilled to share our commitment to health education and awareness, including Dr. Norris\u2019s personal story of inspiration, with our students, staff and our neighbors.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Programs Open Now<\/h3>\n<p>Enrollment is currently open for Ross\u2019 Medical Assistant, Dental Assistant, Pharmacy Technician and Medical Insurance Billing and Office Administration programs, with ongoing admissions and multiple course start dates in December and January.<br \/>\nThe Grand Rapids-area campus is one of 14 Michigan locations for the allied health school, which has 24 campus locations in 5 states. Programs vary by location, and also include Veterinary Assistant.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Medical Education Center celebrates new Grand Rapids area location with diabetes awareness events and ribbon-cutting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}