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On June 21st, SEAHEC Intern, Chukwuemeka Arinze Iloegbu (Emeka) graduated from the Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai with his Master of Public Health degree. Emeka wrote to us as he was leaving for an interview with the Pan American sector of the World Health Organization. (WHO) Continue reading
If you want to become a nurse, you don’t have to let the cost of education get in the way of your dream. There are scholarships available in many areas of nursing, and for all types of people, with special scholarships for LGBTQ, men in nursing and much more. Continue reading
The new community center at Winchester Heights can now be found on Google Maps. Continue reading
SEAHEC’s Healthy Farms community health worker (CHW) team earned their CPR certification in September, 2018. The CHWs or promotores took the full CPR training with practice on dummies. They all passed the exam at the end of the course and received their certification. “It was a successful training!” reported SEAHEC Community Capacity Building Coordinator, Linda Cifuentes. She and Lauren Acosta NP, a Northern Arizona University faculty member, organized the training. Team members who took the training included Josefina Salazar, Yazaida Esquilin, Vanessa Valenzuela Castillo, Jesus Garcia, and Aida Dominguez. The training was conducted in Spanish by Jeffrey Osterhoudt, of Delta4 Medical. Mr. Osterhoudt is certified by the American Heart Association to teach CPR, and is a former Special Forces Medic. “Winchester Heights has the beginnings of pool of healthcare providers to help provide medical treatment in the 20 minutes or so it’ll take to respond by ambulance,” Mr. Osterhoudt commented on his Facebook Page. Continue reading
