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By Dave Larsen, Staff Writer Updated 12:59 AM Friday, March 26, 2010

DAYTON — Miami-Jacobs Career College could lose state approval to teach practical nursing after the state claims it failed to maintain board regulations and violated terms of a March 2008 consent agreement with the Ohio Board of Nursing.

The violations include using an unqualified instructor and then falsely reporting that the college had corrected the problem, according to a notice the board issued to the college Monday, March 22.

The notice gives the school 30 days to request a hearing on the board’s proposal to “withdraw conditional approval and deny full approval to the (nursing) program based upon its apparent breach” of the consent agreement and a 2009 addendum.

Miami-Jacobs officials will pursue an appeal, said Faith Mitchell, campus director.

The college is operated by Miami-Jacobs Business College Co., a for-profit corporation. Its nursing program enrolls about 350 students at the Dayton campus and locations in Troy and Springboro.

“The board during a survey visit to the program in December identified that the program was not meeting and maintaining the board’s regulations, as well as some provisions of the consent agreement,” said Lisa Emrich, the board’s program manager for practice and education, on Thursday.

In the 2009 addendum, the college said it replaced two unqualified nursing instructors with faculty members holding the required bachelor’s degrees in nursing.

However, copies of faculty meeting minutes dated April 1, 2009, indicate that statement was false.

According to board documents, the minutes read: “We said in the report that we have complied, but Ms. Richards is a (master’s prepared) nutritionist and not a nurse ... so we will keep Ms. Richards and worry about who will take it over later.”

Miami-Jacobs entered into the 2008 consent agreement because the school failed to provide adequate clinical training for students and failed to provide a qualified administrator for the program.

Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2419

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