Obria Medical Clinics Obria Medical Clinics are faith-based facilities for the community that offers pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, STD testing, abortion information, prenatal care and well woman care. They give support and answers for anyone’s sexual health. Obria helps to walk through all options and questions a woman may have when facing a possible pregnancy. The doctors, nurses, and volunteers all offer a space for patients to be open, ask questions, and get answers.
Obria also offers counseling, parenting classes, and family planning consultations. Many of the staff at Obria has experienced an unplanned pregnancy on their own and so they are able to show compassion through experience to the patients. The founder of Obria Medical Clinics had an abortion herself for an unplanned pregnancy. She wanted to give the help she could not find to those that are facing similar struggles that she did. Obria does not offer abortions but they do talk about every option with the patient to help guide them to make the best decision.
I supported this organization weekly throughout the semester. I volunteered as a receptionist, an advocate for the patient (I would discuss with the patient with each of their options for their possible pregnancy), put together baby shower gifts for the mothers, clean, organize, and witness ultrasounds. It was very impactful to witness the ultrasounds. I had never experienced anything like it before this volunteer job. It was incredible to see a baby
Julie Livingston and Angela Garcia both provide ethnographies centered around the theme of illumination. In the case of Julie Livingston, Improvising Medicine works to illuminate the growing cancer epidemic in Africa as well as the unique way cancer is handled in situations of improvisation. Angela Garcia also works to illuminate via her ethnographic work, The Pastoral Clinic, by emphasizing the importance of dispossession in treating heroin addiction in the Española Valley and also working to counter common beliefs regarding heroin addiction. In defending these respective arguments, both authors use similar tone and voice; however, the structure of each ethnography is markedly different. Even with some weaknesses being relatively apparent
While volunteering, I checked in patients, helped organize charts, and worked as a receptionist. This allowed me to serve the underserved population and work with a diverse group of professionals. It was inspiring to volunteer at the clinic because I witnessed esteemed professionals sacrifice their time to volunteer at a free clinic in order to help the community flourish. This inspires me to follow in their footsteps when I become a physician. I volunteered at the community clinic my freshman year; unfortunately, I became extremely busy with course work that I had to stop. However, I have registered to volunteer starting August and I plan to continue working throughout my senior year.
Nebraska Catholic Health Initiatives is a non-profit organization and faith-based health system. This is a large corporate organization across the country. The reason why l chose this organization is because I am currently employed as a provider relations coordinator. This is a catholic based organization, moreover it’s the largest non-profit health system in Nebraska. It operates a total of ten hospitals across the state, one academic center in Omaha, home health agencies, nursing homes, and community health centers. This organization was formed in 1996 by catholic health system who had the same mission of nurturing healthy communities -across the nation where it provides care. CHI also provides
Ensuring the members of the board of directors are indigenes of the county and patients of the community health center.1
Volunteers are always needed from the very first sign up day to the very last delivery, and many weeks in between. During the first couple of weeks, The women volunteer group helps
Since starting, I have step-by-step integrated myself into various aspects of the clinic, although I admit that I still have a lot to learn. I plan on volunteering there long after this internship is over, so hopefully those things will eventually come. Volunteering there has illustrated the joy of healthcare that I have always imagined. Even if the private sector of healthcare is like Maliheh, as a doctor, I will make volunteer work a core tenet of my life. These experiences over my internship have helped contribute to that burning desire.
Through my compassion, responsibility, and teamwork I will be able to leave a positive impact on the patients, staff, and parents that visit this facility. Although I may only be a high school student volunteering a few hours a week at this local hospital and I may not be handing a scalpel to a doctor, what I do has the power to bring a smile to someone's day. This opportunity to make their experience better is definitely worthwhile. To conclude, I would also like to thank the Plano Presbyterian Volunteer Services coordinators and directors for providing this great opportunity for High School students like myself who are exploring the medical
The healing hospital paradigm focuses on the removal of stress and other health risks in the hospital environment for both patients and visitors. These factors are intrinsic to the hospital setting and not the ailments being treated within. For example, stress for patients is generated through painful therapeutic procedures, loss of social life, change in financial status due to the healthcare expenditures, etc. Minimization of these stressors ensures that the patient’s well-being is maintained while the comprehensive care and attention aspects
The early church took on the task of caring for and visiting the sick. A very important part of the church’s ministry from the beginning, has been healing and spiritual counseling. Parish Nursing began with the early work of deaconesses and other religious sisters who worked in parishes to provide whole person health promotion with an emphasis on spiritual care. The contemporary side of Parish Nursing was conceptualized by Reverend Granger Westberg as a result of his work with Holistic Health Centers in the 1970 's. In 1984 Reverend Westberg approached Lutheran General Health System, Park Ridge, Illinois, with the idea of partnering with local congregations in a parish nurse project (Vukelich, 2002). Today, the United States, Canada and many other parts of the world have Parish Nurses that are serving in the faith communities.
On October 4th, I did my first field work with Jordan Haley and Jaycie Kim. We decided to go to the Orangewood Foundation, which is in Santa Ana. We met up there at 9am and waited to meet with Mike McKenzie who is a program supervisor there. We talked to him in a small conference room for a little over 30 minutes until he gave us a small tour around. Overall, we were there for a bit over an hour.
I believe in Medical City’s mission to deliver high quality care. When given the unique opportunity to care for children and families in some of their most vulnerable times, I find it essential to treat them with compassion and kindness. As a bedside nurse I not only care for patients physically, I provide holistic care for the family unit. At Medical City, I will continue to provide high quality care for my patients.
During the windshield assessment of Fabens, TX, not many citizens were seen walking outside. There were a minute amount of people seen outside a gas station, filling-up their cars within the community. Additional citizens were mostly seen at University Medical Outpatient Clinic. Consequently, there were neither tourists nor apparent visitors to this town except for us solitary Texas Tech students. Perhaps, the only noticeable, prospective visitors may have been those individuals seen near an Interstate 10 gas station, situated on the edge of this township. Most citizens that were look to be between the ages of 35-65 years old, with the exception of a hand-full of children. That was seen at the health clinic; ranging in between the ages of 7-12 years old. Hispanics were the only visible ethnicity detected during the conduction of this assessment.
Traditional hospitals using standard medical treatment and Western-educated personnel tend to treat the patient's physical being while ignoring other equally important aspects of the patient and the caregiver. Fortunately, healing hospitals have transformed the concept of healing through the principle of "Radical Love." Recognizing the equal importance of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing for all members of the hospital environment, Radical Love enhances the entire wellbeing of the entire community.
With his persistence support he introduced me to a friend involved in Planned Parenthood with a major in Sociology. As I spent the day with her, she described the duties she has being part of a women's clinic. Even more, she explained the behind the scene actions her group has to take to provide the community with free services. I was impressed
A trademark of the United States citizen is the desire to help their fellow man. By the government funding social programs, taxpayer money is granted regardless of race, faith, or sexual preference. If a group wants to receive government funding, then complying with all laws, rules and regulations is perfunctory and their core philosophy may not be used as a basis for discrimination. By extending special assistance to faith-based organizations (FBO), the federal government is shirking their constitutional responsibility to not favor a particular religion. Therefore, government funding for FBO is improper, unnecessary, and ultimately divisive.