Daily Archives: March 30, 2020

Belmont Nursing Students Provide Critical Support for State, Local COVID19 Hotlines

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Volunteers at the Call Center

Belmont nursing students jumped at the chance to help out during a time of crisis. Caleb Smith, Rachel Poston, Peyton Rivers, William Pegram, Mariam Fakhar, Leigh Holdsambeck and Sally Dean teamed up with other student nursing volunteers from Middle Tennessee State University to provide critical support for several public information lines in Tennessee.

Headquartered at either the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) or the Metro Nashville Health Department (MHD), COVID19 hotlines were established to meet a dramatic uptick in calls from Tennesseans searching for reliable information as the number of cases started to rise. Continue reading →

Dr. Voight Speaks at American Physical Therapy Association Meeting

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Voight Speaks at APTA MeetingPhysical Therapy Professor Dr. Mike Voight was recently an invited speaker at the American Physical Therapy Association’s annual Combined Sections Meeting. Held in Denver Colorado, this year’s meeting had more than 16,000 attendees.

As editor in chief of the International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy, Dr. Voight presented on reviewing manuscripts using an organized systematic approach in the evaluation process. While specific to reviewing a manuscript, the presentation also provided key information for young clinicians on how to organize and write up their research in a manner that affords them success in the publication process.

Belmont Nursing Alumna Helps Create COVID-19 Testing Site in Nashville

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Belmont Nursing alumnus Shannon Ellrich (G2009) was featured in a front page story in the March 30 edition of The Tennessean. Ellrich and fellow Vanderbilt Medical Center nurse practitioner Kathleen Donais took on the challenge of creating COVID-19 testing sites out of thin air in a hospital parking deck and a tent on Dayton Avenue in south Nashville.

According to The Tennessean:

Few medical professionals have experience in a situation like the COVID-19 pandemic. But Ellrich does.
She graduated from Belmont University in 2009 and then served as a nurse corps officer in the U.S. Army. She was deployed to Liberia from October 2014 through March 2015 for the Ebola outbreak.
It was an introduction to infectious disease control and protective gear like what is being worn to treat patients now.

Read the full story in The Tennessean (subscription may be required).