Category: Clinics & Partnerships

As we are all aware, traditional face to face activities were cancelled for Spring Quarter 2020.  For Health Services Administration (HSAD) students, this meant their face to face internships and practicums were cancelled.  Working with the HSAD program accreditation organization, their instructor, Ms. Rosalee Allan, was challenged to create a virtual offering for their internship. …

Free hearing screenings were offered at the Spokane campus on May 22, 2019. Three graduate students Alisa Cryer, Elli Armantrout, and Allison Kromer, supervised by Barbara Peregoy, AuD screened approximately 35 individuals that walked through the Student Academic Center between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. The students are from the UPCD (University Programs in Communication…

Occupational therapy master’s alum Kaela Dewan talks about the lessons she has learned from the community at Eastern Washington University as a student and as a scholarship recipient. “Whether it is in ways that are big or small,” says Kayla, “I have found that being a part of something bigger than yourself is always rewarding.…

EWU’s College of Health Science and Public Health (CHSPH) and St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute have created a collaborative out-patient therapy clinic program located in the recently opened Spokane Teaching Health Clinic (STHC). The emphasis on this program focuses on student learning opportunities within a clinical environment that provides excellence in patient care to meet the…

Two programs in the College of Health Science and Public Health have built a community partnership with Excelsior Youth Center to help EWU students learn while helping the organization in return. CHSPH’s undergraduate health services administration (HSA) program and graduate occupational therapy (OT) program have formed a partnership with Excelsior, a school and specialty medical…

Asked if she was squeamish at the sight of blood, DaNeil Jolley was given scrubs and guided to a dimly lit room that smelled noticeably of cleaner, where she was about to watch a laparoscopic surgery. At just 16 years old, this was Jolley’s first day as an intern in the surgical unit at Samaritan…