<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/newsroom/bc3-breaks-ground-for-the-victor-k.html" dsn="blogs"><featured/><pubDate>10/22/2021 11:49:48 AM</pubDate><title>BC3 breaks ground for ‘the Victor K.’</title><subtitle>$9M nursing and allied health building part of largest construction project in college history</subtitle><description>(Butler, PA) The hospital-like interior of the Victor K. Phillips Nursing and Allied Health Building, with its simulated medical-surgery and ICU rooms, will prepare students to “feel comfortable for when they get into a real situation,” Janice Phillips Larrick said Wednesday after a groundbreaking for the centerpiece of the largest construction project in Butler County Community College’s 56-year history.</description><author/><image-caption>Dr. Patty Annear, left, dean of Butler County Community College’s Shaffer School of Nursing and Allied Health, presents flowers to Janice Phillips Larrick on Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021, during a groundbreaking for the Victor K. Phillips Nursing and Allied Health Building on the college’s main campus in Butler Township. The Janice Phillips Larrick Charitable Trust in July 2017 committed $1 million to BC3 toward construction of what will become a 25,000-square-foot facility that will provide an immersive learning environment and house the college’s Shaffer School of Nursing and Allied Health.</image-caption><tags><tag>Year in Review 2021</tag></tags><image><img src="/_resources/images/newsroom/2021/phillips-groundbreaking-a.jpg" alt="Victor K. Phillips Nursing and Allied Health Building groundbreaking"/></image></item>