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.

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