Bohecker Accreditation

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Hi everyone,

I am planning to attend Bohecker College - Cincinnati in December 2009. However, I keep reading post after post on this site indicating that Bohecker has lost their accreditation. I am confused by this. Bohecker offers RETS College's Nursing program, and RETS program is accredited by the Ohio Board of Nursing as well as NLNAC (I just checked both sites, so I know this is current and accurate). It also states in my paperwork from Bohecker that the college has instituational accreditation from the Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools (ABHES). Furthermore, "Bohecker College - Cincinnati is accredited to award Occupational Associate's Degrees and Diplomas. Bohecker College - Cincinnati is registered with the State Board of Career Colleges and Schools, 35 E. Gay Street, Suite 403, Columbus, Ohio 43215."

I am just wondering where everyone is getting their information about Bohecker. I did a Google search for Bohecker losing accreditation, and this site is the only one that keeps coming up. Are you referring to the school itself losing accreditation, or the Nursing program? As I stated before, the Nursing program is RETS College's program, and it is still fully accredited according to all applicable websites (BON, ABHES, NLNAC, etc). According to the school's website, the school is still accredited. Can anyone show me PROOF to contradict any of this? I am getting ready to spend $20,000 on getting my LPN and do not want it to be wasted. Thank you.

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I keep seeing the same things on here. I know someone who got their LPN at Bohecker and had trouble finding a job for a while but finally found a part time job at a nursing home.

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Hello!

I just checked the Ohio Board of Nursing website (I posted the link below) and RETS has lost their FULL accreditation. They now have PROVISIONAL accreditation which, according to the Board, means that they must prove that they can meet and maintain all of the Board's requirements before they will get their FULL status back.

http://www.nursing.ohio.gov/PDFS/education/09updatedPNlist.pdf

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Yikes!!! $20,000?!?! I only paid $10,000 for my ADN. Have you checked out other schools?

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I would love to find another school but I MUST work. There is absolutely no option for me to quit my job for nursing school. I chose Bohecker because they offer an evening program that is 15 months. I was planning to work mornings and attend school in the evenings. All other LPN and RN programs in my area are Monday-Friday from early morning to at least 4:30 PM if not later. But now I'm starting to wonder if what the admissions rep told me is accurate.

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Hello,

I am attending Bohecker college and I keep reading the same thing about Bohecker losing there accreditation.

The only place i am hearing this is on this site. So I went to school and asked the DON and she says this is not true. I hope this helps>>>By the way it is a great school and very expensive. It is worth every penny.

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Thanks olivial! Which Bohecker do you attend, Cincinnati or Ravenna? Are you days or evenings? I'm just wondering about the scheduling for clinicals. I can see on the BON website that RETS has provisional accreditation for the LPN program, but full accreditation for their RN program. Provisional is still accredited and means you can sit for the boards after graduating.

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Yes that is correct, I attend cincinnati during the day. The clinicals for first term which is 15 weeks is on wed eve or thur day. Depending if your a day or eve student. Then i think 2nd term is 4 hrs to days a week. Clinicals are great, and everyone at clinical site is very helpful, patients are also glad your there. I have had a wonderful experience. Feel free to contact me

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Hi olivial, thanks for getting back to me again. I know you are a day student, but I'm just curious, so the clinicals for evening students are in the evening during the week? Not on Saturday? I'm just trying to get everything sorted out before I start because I have 2 children and a job that I can't quit. Also, did you have to get your "titer" levels checked for measles, chickenpox, etc., when you did your physical before admission? The doctor that took care of my as a child has passed away and I can't get my shot records. I'll have to get those titers drawn and they are EXPENSIVE. Just wondering if you knew a place that does them reasonably cheap? My family doctor does not do them, so I will have to go to an Occupational/Travel med center that does not accept my insurance.

Thanks!

Lisa

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Medical records don't disappear because the doctor dies, but they probably disappeared when you turned 18. It's common for childhood records to be shredded when you're 18+, mine were, ugh.

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I never said the records disappeared because the doctor died. I said that the doctor is dead and I have no way of getting ahold of anyone in the office to get my records :banghead:

I called them when I was 22 to ask when I last had a tetorifice shot. They still had my records then because they were able to tell me. However, when I turned 28, I tried to call them for the dates of a different shot, and the phone had been disconnected. I drove by the clinic in person and it was closed up. I talked to a friend later that day who had gone to the same clinic, and she told me that the doctor passed away and they closed the clinic down. They did not bother to call me and tell me he had passed away because I was over the age of 18 and could no longer be seen by him anyway (he was a pediatrician). So I'm assuming the records were shredded or given to a different doc who "took over the practice", but I have no way of knowing who that is or how to get ahold of him/her. THAT is why I said I cannot get my childhood shot records, not because they mystically "disappeared" when the doctor died.

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Call the BON first if you have any questions about going to this school...I go to the campus in columbus, so I'm not familiar with the area down there, if that's the part of the main campus or another campus. But at my campus there were rumors that my class possibly wouldn't be able to sit for our boards when we grad in may, so about 4 or 5 of us called and talked with the BON, I know RETS is on Provisional, which basically means they had full approval through the BON but they lost it. Now, Bohecker in Columbus did some pretty bad stuff and the BON is giving them until OCT 2010 to get these things fixed..the BON came in this last may and 18 months is the max that a school can have to fix their problems, my class will be ok to sit for our boards, but any student that is still in the program or grads in OCT, will have the possibility that those students might NOT be able to sit for their boards. That is only if Bohecker doesn't fix EVERYTHING. If Bohecker gets everything fixed, then they will be ok, but if they don't then Bohecker will lose the ability to teach nursing, the lady at the BON told me that if Bohecker doesn't fix all this, then they might have to stop teaching the nursing program...Bohecker in Columbus has only been open for 3 or 4 yrs and this is the 3rd time they have been in trouble through the BON. Get a piece of paper, write down any questions you have, then call the BON, they might direct you to a couple different ppl, they did that to me, lol..I would ask a question and the person would say, well so and so can answer that better than I can so let me redirect you. Call them first and find out about your campus before signing on that line.

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