{"id":3948,"date":"2014-12-04T16:11:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T00:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/?p=3948"},"modified":"2014-12-04T16:11:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T00:11:21","slug":"patient-navigation-symposium-introduces-students-to-volunteer-opportunities-around-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/uncategorized\/patient-navigation-symposium-introduces-students-to-volunteer-opportunities-around-bay-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Patient Navigation Symposium Introduces Students to Volunteer Opportunities Around Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/12\/patient-navigator-symposium.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3950 alignleft\" alt=\"patient navigator symposium\" src=\"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/12\/patient-navigator-symposium-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>On Wednesday, Dec. 3, the Career Services Center and Patient Navigator Program hosted a panel of 10 Volunteer Coordinators and Patient Navigator volunteers to share what it means to be a Patient Navigator in their unique healthcare environments.<\/p>\n<p>Patient Navigator students\u2014about to embark on a cooperative externship course\u2014had the chance to ask questions and mingle with the volunteer coordinators and volunteers to learn what it\u2019s like to do Patient Navigation in an array of healthcare environments. Not only did students get a chance to rub shoulders with possible internship site leaders, they got to hear about the real difference patient navigators make in the field. From making phone calls to help patients follow up with appointments to guiding undocumented patients through the process of receiving a liver transplant, it was evident that patient navigators are already making a difference in the lives and health outcomes of patients.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3949 alignright\" style=\"font-size: 1rem;line-height: 1\" alt=\"patient navigator symposium 2\" src=\"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/12\/patient-navigator-symposium-2-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>As an Emergency Department Resident from Highland Hospital stated, \u201cWhen a patient comes to the ER who\u2019s suicidal because he\u2019s tired of being homeless, I don\u2019t have a treatment for homelessness. That\u2019s when [the patient navigators] can help patients work through those problems that we can\u2019t solve in the ED.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The panel represented a diverse range of Bay Area healthcare providers including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bay Area Regional Help Desk Consortium in San Francisco<\/li>\n<li>Highland Hospital in Oakland<\/li>\n<li>San Francisco General Hospital<\/li>\n<li>Asian Americans for Community Involvement in San Jose<\/li>\n<li>California Pacific Medical Center<\/li>\n<li>St. Luke\u2019s Hospital in San Francisco<\/li>\n<li>El Concilio of San Mateo County<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Article and Photos by Lezra Chenportillo &amp; Paul Rueckhaus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, Dec. 3, the Career Services Center and Patient Navigator Program hosted a panel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}