{"id":2354,"date":"2020-06-03T17:41:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T17:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/?p=2354"},"modified":"2020-06-03T17:41:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T17:41:36","slug":"interns-hired-to-connect-covid-19-patients-with-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/2020\/06\/03\/interns-hired-to-connect-covid-19-patients-with-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Interns Hired to Connect COVID-19 Patients with Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Two College of Health Professions interns in ChristianaCare\u2019s Care Management Department have been hired by the health system to support patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/h2>\n<p>Ned Bates is a care connector, who monitors Electronic Health Records (EHR) to facilitate patient admissions and discharges. He also plays a role in monitoring patients who have been diagnosed with the virus.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2355\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2020\/06\/Health-art-233x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Crystal Conley\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" \/>Crystal Conley also is a care connector. Before they were hired, they worked 15-20 hours a week at the health system as interns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe work as a team in ensuring patients are reached out to and offered the different services ChristianaCare has so they can be monitored during this COVID battle,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Both students are pursuing bachelor\u2019s degrees in health sciences. In addition to their paid internships at ChristianaCare, they also have had the opportunity to interview top management in the health system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a very positive relationship with ChristianaCare,\u201d says Dr. Angela Herman, Chair of Health Services. \u201cThe students get their foot in the door, they get experience, and they get to show themselves in a professional setting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two College of Health Professions interns in ChristianaCare\u2019s Care Management Department have been hired by the health system to support patients during the COVID-19 pandemic&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-2354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-college-of-nursing-and-health-sciences"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":2,"label":"ACADEMIC NEWS"}],"post_tag":[{"value":8,"label":"College of Nursing and Health Sciences"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Stethoscope-on-laptop-184907997_4926x3284-scaled-1-720x480.jpeg",720,480,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Rebecca Slinger","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/author\/rebecca\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":2,"name":"ACADEMIC NEWS","slug":"academic-news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":559,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":460,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":2,"category_count":460,"category_description":"","cat_name":"ACADEMIC NEWS","category_nicename":"academic-news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":8,"name":"College of Nursing and Health Sciences","slug":"college-of-nursing-and-health-sciences","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":565,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":110,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wilmu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}