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Shirley Roberts

moconnell — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 18:52:51 +0000

Shirley Roberts Clinic Nurse Manager Grace Community Clinic Grapevine, Texas I’m Shirley Roberts, and I’m the clinic nurse manager that actually runs the Grace Community Clinic in Grapevine, Texas. The clients that we take care of are all low-income, and they’re all uninsured. We’ve gone through a lot of things in the last two years — number one COVID which, all of us have gone through that...

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Luz Rivera

moconnell — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 18:50:23 +0000

Luz Rivera Clinical coordinator Ithaca Free Clinic Ithaca, New York My name is Luz Rivera. I’m the clinical coordinator for the Ithaca Free Clinic. I did love this training. It gave me more tools and more ideas on how to basically implement what I was already doing, but it just gave me a broader view of things and other ways that I can approach things with a patient. I do still have patients that...

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Linda Venzke

moconnell — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 18:47:09 +0000

Linda Venzke Medical Director Luke Society Inc. Galveston, Texas I’m actually considered the medical director. I’m an RN with my master’s in nursing. I’ve been a part of the group – the Luke Society Incorporated is the name of our group, our clinic. We started 30 years ago taking students to Mexico on mission trips, and then the need in our own backyard was here. So we opened a street clinic in...

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Keenan Rosado

moconnell — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 18:28:35 +0000

Keenan Rosado Physician’s Assistant Student Shifa Free Clinic Mount Pleasant, South Carolina My name is Keenan Rosado and I’m a physician’s assistant student doing my family medicine and women’s health clinical rotation at the Shifa Free Clinic. Our clinic rotations are usually five weeks long. But because it counts for two rotations for me, I’m there for 10 weeks. I’ve been there for the last...

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Test Post

moconnell — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 17:46:59 +0000

For our New Mexico and our Arizona, the majority of these items we requested from Americares, we are going to be providing to the Navajo Nation. Obviously, they have medical teams that are going up to provide support to the hospital in that area. So, the face shields, we’re going to provide those to the medical staff. We saw a kind of shift. Because what was happening was individuals were being...

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Halloween Safety Rules for Ghouls

tdavis — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 20:57:15 +0000

Halloween Safety with Americares Chief Medical Officer Dr. Julie Varughese Halloween safety has taken on a whole new meaning with the COVID-19 pandemic. Whether you decide to trick-or-treat or plan family-friendly Halloween activities instead, this Oct. 31 will be different from any other. Here are you some tips to help you celebrate safely: Trick or Treating Gets Tricky The U.S.

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Yanique Hernandez, Dominican Republic

amcares — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 04:59:14 +0000

Yo creo que, que el mayor desafio que tenemos como paiz es realmente poder logran la accessabilidad de los pacientes a que llegen a los hospitals. I believe that the greatest challenge we face as a country is really being able to better the accessibility of health centers for patients. Porque? Por que por ejemplo aquí en Tamboril, tenemos lugares que están bastante alejados de nuestro...

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Bill Dean, Liberia

amcares — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 04:43:16 +0000

The school, the clinic, the church—they are all here. And so those are attracting people to come. I pray that someday, we’ll have a high school here and even a college. So, we really have a big dream for this place here, and this is a growing community—the town is growing, people are coming. If you are healthy, you will be able produce food, you will be strong enough to work. But when people are...

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Nizamuddin Abdul Karim Sheikh, India

amcares — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 04:31:36 +0000

I grew up, and after 13 years, I got married. Then, after some time, I had some issues in my marriage, and we used to have quarrels. All my childhood and good friends had gone to the Gulf and were scattered. Then, the wrong friends started coming into my life. Due to these various reasons, I started getting into bad habits. And eventually I got addicted to alcohol because—I tried but could not get...

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