View the Hirtzel Institute's innovative "North Star" project with PANPHA: Get a glimpse of the future of long term care by learning consumer and environmental trends, view the Eight Points of the North Star and read the final report on an Envisioned Future of Long Term Care of Senior Services in Pennsylvania. Click here: www.panpha.org/northstar Dr. Linda Rhodes, -- an Erie native, a Distinguished Alumna of the Year award winner of Mercyhurst College, former Pennsylvania Secretary of Aging and author of three books -- has been named director of the new Hirtzel Institute on Health Education and Aging at Mercyhurst North East. Mercyhurst North East Nursing Lab Goes High-Tech. MNE recently was awarded a $31,031 grant for Human Patient Simulators. The announcement was made by by Governor Edward Rendell who is investing $1.7 million to supply state-of-the art equipment for advanced job training. The grant was written by Dr. Linda Rhodes through a Hirtzel Institute on Health Education and Aging initiative. Get the full details plus a graphic of a Human Patient Simulator.