VGCC Honors Medical Coding graduates

Vance-Granville Community College honored ten students on June 1 who completed the Medical Coding certificate program at the college’s South Campus in Granville County. The graduation program was held at the Taste of Fuji restaurant in Butner.

The Medical Coding graduates included Nieka M. Brown-Robinson and Julie Ann Rappleyea, both of Butner; Emma L. Albright, Nikenya L. Kelly, Christopher S. Reinhard, Deborah J. Smith and Lauria J. Themes, all of Creedmoor; Tracy E. Armhold of Henderson, and Regina K. Dryden and Tonya Denise Howard, both of Oxford.

South Campus director Jason Snelling welcomed and congratulated the graduates. Howard read an original poem for her classmates, and Frances Pettiford of Oxford, the instructor for the class, presented certificates to graduates. Themes offered a song and Brown-Robinson closed with a prayer.

Medical coding is the process of taking written medical records and converting them into a numerical language in order to submit a bill for services or supplies to an insurance company for payment. VGCC’s program provides area residents with the necessary skills and understanding to allow them to seek entry-level coding positions in one of the nation’s fastest-growing occupations. For more information on Medical Coding, contact Laura Peace on VGCC’s main campus at (252) 738-3417.

Above: VGCC Medical Coding program graduates honored on June 1 included, kneeling in front, Tracy Armhold; standing, from left, Nieka Brown-Robinson, Lauria Themes, Julie Rappleyea, Nikenya Kelly, Christopher Reinhard, Regina Dryden, Tonya Howard, Deborah J. Smith and Emma Albright.