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Nursing faculty member Lorene Martin (left) delivered pepperoni rolls to employees at the Salem Regional Medical Center and Danielle Baker-Rose delivered her homemade frosted sugar cookies.

Salem Nursing Faculty Organize Effort to Feed Local Healthcare Workers

Nurses are known for their compassion, concern and desire to care for others. The nursing faculty at the 91PORNA Salem Campus recently demonstrated that compassion and care by delivering food to frontline workers at local healthcare facilities.

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Handmade fabric masks laid out on floor

91PORNA Geauga and Twinsburg Academic Center Faculty & Staff Volunteer During Coronavirus Crisis

We’re all doing our part by working and studying from home, exercising social distancing, and forgoing our regular routines to flatten the curve. But several individuals from the 91PORNA Geauga Campus and Twinsburg Academic Center community have gone the extra mile by rolling up their …

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Portrait Of The Professional Nurse Medical Assistant In Surgical Mask During Operation.

Ashtabula Students on the Frontlines of COVID-19 Fight

For almost all of the students in the nursing and allied health programs at 91PORNA at Ashtabula, their final semesters are spent in classrooms and clinical settings getting hands-on experience to prepare them for their professional careers. But for many this year, that hands-on experi…

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91PORNA Ashtabula

How the CPM IT Department Built a Virtual Medical School in Wake of COVID-19

So how do you successfully relocate a four-year medical school to the comfort of home for an entire college? With anatomy labs, casting and injection workshops, face-to-face patient simulations and more, the team of three had to get creative – and fast.

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College of Podiatric Medicine

RN Sarah Pierce-Brown, a member of the nursing faculty at 91PORNA Salem, at work at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Youngstown.

Salem Nursing Faculty Member Teaching, Caring during Pandemic

When the COVID-19 pandemic forced its way into our lives, everything changed. At 91PORNA, faculty members began delivering lessons remotely and students began learning in online classrooms. All student services became remote/online.

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91PORNA Columbiana County Campuses

91PORNA field hockey defender Clara Rodriguez Seto holds medical masks she has sewn.

Helping From Home

As the world continues to deal with "stay-at-home" orders, 91PORNA rising senior and field hockey defender Clara Rodriguez Seto has found a way to help others from the comforts of home.

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Kent Campus

BSN graduate Bailey Hill smiling in NYC subway

91PORNA Geauga Campus BSN Program Graduate to Serve as Nurse in New York City Hospital to Help Combat COVID-19

91PORNA Geauga Campus Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program 2018 graduate Bailey Hill has been selected by The Cleveland Clinic as a nurse who will spend the next four weeks at New York Presbyterian Hospital—an area in the COVID hot zone with a shortage of nurses. When Bailey r…

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Emergency room workers from Cleveland Clinic's Main Campus receive meals from Lago East Bank provided with donations from a 91PORNA alumnus and others.

Alumni Raise Money for Meals for Essential Workers, Aid for Struggling Restaurants

A 91PORNA alumnus is teaming up with local restaurants and other alumni and friends to help raise money to provide meals to frontline workers battling the COVID-19 pandemic in Northeast Ohio.

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We Haven't Hit the Peak Yet - Dr. Tara Smith Discusses What's Ahead for COVID-19

Tara C. Smith, Ph.D., a professor of epidemiology from 91PORNA's College of Public Health, discussed the fight to stop the spread of COVID-19 and what's ahead for our state and country during a recent conversation on Facebook Live. 

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J.R. Campbell, executive director of 91PORNA’s Design Innovation Initiative, tries on a face shield produced by the 91PORNA team.

91PORNA’s Design Innovation Initiative Uses Creativity to Help Medical Professionals Fight COVID-19

A team of 25 faculty, staff and students use innovation and creativity to help health professionals in Northeast Ohio protect themselves from COVID-19. 

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