DECATUR, Ill. (WCIA) -- A new medical training room is opening in Decatur -- but it's not for doctors, nurses, or surgeons.

Pawprint Ministries has 45 comfort dog teams serving in Central Illinois. These dogs are often offering support in hospitals and cancer care centers. Now, all the dogs can be taught how to serve those people in a real-life hospital setting.

"We expose our dogs to a lot in a training situation so that when they do go out to serve, they're prepared and they're ready to go," founder and executive director of Pawprint Ministries, Jennifer Dahn, said.

Pawprint Ministries is a local comfort dog organization that has served Central Illinois since 2014.

"Our dogs go out into hospitals, nursing homes, cancer care centers, schools, disasters, libraries, anywhere we're calle

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