[caption id="attachment_1207" align="alignright" width="300"] Anne Stadelmaier, RN, Beth Bradley, RN, Cookie Leonardi, HUC, Angel Cyphert, RN, and Dayton Johnston, PCA, are learning Spanish in their spare time to improve communication with their patients.[/caption] When Angel Cyphert, an RN in the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU), started working at UVA 25 years…
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Get to know your doctor; meet a heroic nurse: Go behind the scenes of UVA hospital with up-close portraits of the people who provide patient care, conduct the cutting-edge research, provide the services that keep the medical center running.
[caption id="attachment_1187" align="alignright" width="300"] UVA Health System Junior Volunteers Micaela Miller and Adam Ladd adjust a wheelchair outside the Emergency Department.[/caption] Summer vacation. If you’re a teen, it’s a time to relax, forget about school and hang out with your friends, maybe get a job. But for 56 local teens,…
In case you missed it, here's a brief wrap-up of all the stories we published over the last week or so about the Remote Area Medical (RAM) clinic in Wise, Va. 240 volunteers from UVA traveled to the southwest portion of the state to provide free medical care at the…
Many people received free medical, dental and vision care at the three-day Remote Area Medical (RAM) clinic in Wise, Va., July 22-24. UVA volunteers provided medical services at the clinic in the southwest portion of the state. Take a look at what happened at RAM this year:
240 UVA employees, nursing and medical students are volunteering at the Remote Area Medical clinic in Wise, Va., this week. We’re talking to some of them and sharing their stories. Betty Jenkins is a registered nurse in the operating room at Culpeper Regional Hospital, UVA's partner hospital. What have you…
240 UVA employees, nursing and medical students are volunteering at the Remote Area Medical clinic in Wise, Va., this week. We're talking to some of them and sharing their stories. Robbbyrda Preston and Charlotte Graham work in patient access at UVA. What did you do today? Robbbyrda: At RAM, we…
240 UVA employees, nursing and medical students are volunteering at the Remote Area Medical clinic in Wise, Va., this week. We're talking to some of them and sharing their stories. Ellen Shields is a registered nurse at UVA. We caught up with her around 1 p.m. today. What is your…
Megan Rowe is an administrative programs coordinator at UVA. This is her third year volunteering at RAM. [caption id="attachment_1068" align="alignright" width="298"] Megan (left) with the patient registration team at the 2010 RAM clinic[/caption] Once a year, I get lost for three days. I forget that I have a mortgage payment,…
This weekend, 240 UVA employees, nursing and medical students are volunteering at the Remote Area Medical clinic in Wise, Va. We’ll be talking to some of them and sharing their stories with you. Last week, we met with Nosheen Reza, a fourth-year medical student, as she reviewed the clinical skills…
[caption id="attachment_878" align="alignright" width="273"] Knudson running in the 2011 Boston Marathon, where she qualified for the Olympic Trials.[/caption] In the final stretch of the 2011 Boston Marathon, Louise Knudson thought she must be reading the clock wrong. She had to run the 26.2 miles in 2 hours and 46 minutes…
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