Southeast Campus
Our Southeast regional campus students are volunteering throughout the communities of Savannah and Brunswick and engaging in various efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, including contact tracing, telemedicine, and fundraising.
If you are a Savannah area resident in need of help during this time OR interested in helping the COVID-19 efforts in Savannah, please visit the Savannah COVID-19 Facebook page found here .
Current initiatives include:
Our Southeast regional campus students are volunteering throughout the communities of Savannah and Brunswick and engaging in various efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, including contact tracing, telemedicine, and fundraising.
If you are a Savannah area resident in need of help during this time OR interested in helping the COVID-19 efforts in Savannah, please visit the Savannah COVID-19 Facebook page found here .
Current initiatives include:
- Grocery Delivery for Immunocompromised Individuals
- Care Packages & PPE Donations for Healthcare Workers
- Food Donation Collections for Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia
- Public Health Department Drive-Through Testing & Contact Tracing
- Cloth Mask Making
Contact Tracing: Savannah, GA
MCG students, alongside students from Mercer University School of Medicine, are volunteering with the Coastal Health District to trace and provide guidance to individuals who have come into contact with patients who have tested positive for COVID-19. These individuals, with the help of the medical students, are enrolled in an online health monitoring program so that they can document their symptoms and receive information regarding safe and effective self-isolation protocols. Additionally, students facilitate follow up with primary care providers after symptom resolution.
MCG students, alongside students from Mercer University School of Medicine, are volunteering with the Coastal Health District to trace and provide guidance to individuals who have come into contact with patients who have tested positive for COVID-19. These individuals, with the help of the medical students, are enrolled in an online health monitoring program so that they can document their symptoms and receive information regarding safe and effective self-isolation protocols. Additionally, students facilitate follow up with primary care providers after symptom resolution.
Telemedicine Support Services
Communication between healthcare workers and their patients is essential, and its importance is even greater in times such as these. MCG students are actively volunteering with local medical practices to facilitate patient communication with their providers and improve access to healthcare in efforts to relieve some of the burden that hospitals in the community are currently experiencing.
Communication between healthcare workers and their patients is essential, and its importance is even greater in times such as these. MCG students are actively volunteering with local medical practices to facilitate patient communication with their providers and improve access to healthcare in efforts to relieve some of the burden that hospitals in the community are currently experiencing.
Fundraising for care packages for healthcare workers
Mirroring the care packages initiative that began at the Augusta campus, a group of SE campus students have come together to support local healthcare workers. Through fundraising, they are producing care packages containing various snacks and drinks in addition to thank you cards to boost the morale of doctors, nurses, and other essential healthcare personnel throughout these dangerous and uncertain times. A GoFundMe can be found at the bottom of this page.
To leave a note to a healthcare worker click here.
Thus far, students have made and distributed 450 care packages to Candler, St. Joseph’s, Memorial and Chatham EMS.
Mirroring the care packages initiative that began at the Augusta campus, a group of SE campus students have come together to support local healthcare workers. Through fundraising, they are producing care packages containing various snacks and drinks in addition to thank you cards to boost the morale of doctors, nurses, and other essential healthcare personnel throughout these dangerous and uncertain times. A GoFundMe can be found at the bottom of this page.
To leave a note to a healthcare worker click here.
Thus far, students have made and distributed 450 care packages to Candler, St. Joseph’s, Memorial and Chatham EMS.
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Southeast Campus Success Stories
Our MCG students were interviewed for an article published in Associated Press about their contact tracing efforts with the Coastal Health District. Rebecca DeCarlo, a fourth-year medical student at MCG, was included in their photo montage to the right. You can find the link to the article here. Additionally, our students were interviewed by the local WSAV News alongside their Mercer University School of Medicine Savannah campus teammates for their work creating care packages, delivering groceries to immunocompromised individuals, and much more. You can find the link to the article here |
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