Health Ministry, St. Luke Hospital
- Contact Info
- Health Ministry, St. Luke Hospital
- 85 North Grand Avenue
- Fort Thomas, KY 41075
- http://www.stlukehospitals.com
- Site Supervisor: Ms. Emma Shipp, Coordinator Health Ministries
Site Description
Health Ministries of St. Luke Hospitals aims to reach out to the body, mind, and spirit of the sick and elderly of Northern
Kentucky. Health ministers are people of faith who promote whole-person health through places of worship in the community.
Services offered include health screenings and education, assisting in advocacy and finding resources, personal health
counseling, home and hospital visitation, and training and coordinating volunteers. The vision of Health Ministries is to have
a healthy community by caring for people one individual at a time. Also offered are support groups for the Parkinson's and
Alzheimer's patients and caregivers. Although Health Ministries works with a number of different organizations, the UHP
intern mainly works with two: Hosea House, an evening meal site for the homeless and Be Concerned, which runs a number of
seasonal programs aimed to provide assistance to those in need, and provides free food along and home goods for a
nominal fee.
Job Description
The intern will...
- • Acquire an understanding of basic health issues low-income families face.
- • Learn about basic preventative health care.
- • Spend time at both Hosea House and Be Concerned, bonding with the people and talking about health
issues along with improving medical compliance.
- • Take blood pressures and blood sugar screenings at Hosea House and Be Concerned.
- • Advise people in the community about preventative health care and health resources in the community.
- • Develop permanent on-site health education such as pamphlets, posters and binders on topics that affect
the populations served.
- • Attend the monthly Parkinson's Support Group and Alzheimer’s Support groups which respectively meet once a
month, and do a presentation on a topic of their choice.
- • Shadow physicians occasionally; in 2007, this was with a surgeon at a Wound Healing Clinic.
This site welcomes interns of any religious denomination.
Intern Experience Summary
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