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COVID-19 HUB

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ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ is launching a series of videos showcasing the talents of our faculty and staff aimed at providing an uplifting respite from the stress of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

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.

Nurses are known for their compassion, concern and desire to care for others. The nursing faculty at the ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ Salem Campus recently demonstrated that compassion and care by delivering food to frontline workers at local healthcare facilities.

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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RN Sarah Pierce-Brown, a member of the nursing faculty at ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ Salem, at work at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Youngstown.

When the COVID-19 pandemic forced its way into our lives, everything changed. At ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡, faculty members began delivering lessons remotely and students began learning in online classrooms. All student services became remote/online.

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ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ field hockey defender Clara Rodriguez Seto holds medical masks she has sewn.

As the world continues to deal with "stay-at-home" orders, ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ rising senior and field hockey defender Clara Rodriguez Seto has found a way to help others from the comforts of home.

Emergency room workers from Cleveland Clinic's Main Campus receive meals from Lago East Bank provided with donations from a ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ alumnus and others.

A ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ 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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Tara C. Smith, Ph.D., a professor of epidemiology from ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡'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.